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Elena Gaussen (previously known as Elena Gaussen-Marks) is a London-based portrait painter. She was divorced from screenwriter and cryptographer Leo Marks in 2000. Gaussen produces portraits and landscapes in a variety of media including pencil sketches. She painted a portrait of Helene Hanff during Hanff’s 1971 visit to London as documented in Hanff’s 1973 book The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street.