Greetings!
A few odds & ends that might be interesting:
In case you missed it, there’s a great documentary about the life of the artist Gluck (1895-1978) on i-player
The story of Gluck – Britain’s cross-dressing high society painter of the 1930s – who staged ‘one-man shows’, had relationships with women and somehow got away with it.
Gluck: Who Did She Think He Was? – BBC iPlayer
In turn I would definitely recommend Diana Souhami’s biography
If you’re in ‘holiday spirit’ then Simon Morley’s La Belle France: British Artists Abroad, from Walter Sickert to David Hockney is published by Yale this week (and is very good!)
Simon Morley explores the influence of French culture on British artists during the modern period, and from his house in central France travels in the footsteps of artists including Francis Bacon, the Bloomsbury Group, Edward Burra, Leonora Carrington, David Hockney, Gwen John, Ben Nicholson, and Walter Sickert. For these British Francophiles, France’s culture and social milieu were the most powerful expressions of the spirit of modernity and profoundly inspirational, helping to free them from what they perceived as the straitlaced parochialism of their homeland.
And, if you’ve been with us either at The Beecroft or The Beaumont and are interested in our discussion of Patrick Heron’s paintings from the 1950s, there’s a small but fabulous exhibition at the
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert Gallery (38 Bury Street, St James’s; website https://hh-h.com/exhibitions/44-patrick-heron-1950-54/ )
until 10th July that is definitely worth exploring if you’re passing by!
Patrick Heron (1920-1999) The Red Table [1950; Hazlitt Gallery]
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