Authors: Michael Holroyd
164
Charles Wheeler
High Relief
(
1968
)
,
p. 116.
165
Augustus to Edwin John, 1 December 1960.
166
Charles Wheeler
High Relief
p
.
116.
167
John to Sir Philip Dunn, 11 February 1960.
168
John to Sir Charles Wheeler, 8 March 1960.
169
Now in the Royal Academy Library.
170
John to Sir Charles Wheeler, 4 March 1961.
171
John to Cecil Beaton n.d.
172
David John to Robin John, 20 November 1971.
173
Sven Berlin
Dromengro: Man of the Road
(1971), pp. 196–7.
174
Richard Hughes ‘Last Words from Augustus’
Sunday Telegraph
(5 November 1961).
175
Anthony Powell ‘The Great Bohemian’
Time and Tide
(9 November 1961).
176
Osbert Lancaster ‘Last of the Great Unbeats’
Daily Express
(1 November 1961).
177
Daily Telegraph
(1 November 1961), p. 12.
178
Tooth’s Gallery, 15–30 March, ‘Paintings and Drawings not previously exhibited’. Christie’s, First Studio Sale, 20 July 1962 (115 drawings, 70 paintings) £99,645 (equivalent to £1,200,000 in 1996). Christie’s, Second Studio Sale, 21 June 1963 (103 drawings, 62 paintings) £33,405 (equivalent to £391,200 in 1996). Both studio sales were held primarily to pay off death duties, John’s estate having been valued at approximately £90,000 (equivalent to £1,119,000 in 1996).
Abbey Memorial Trust
597–8
Aberconway, Christabel: AJ to
505
,
508
Académie Carmen, Paris
71–2
Académie Julian, Paris
71
Ackerley, J. R.
569
Aimard, Gustave
15
Aitken, Sir Max
see
Beaverbrook, Lord
Aix-en-Provence, France
320–1
,
589
Albany Street, London (No. 61),
81
,
85
Alderney Manor, Dorset
359–60
,
361
,
365–71
,
372
,
380–1
,
416–17
,
459
,
496
Alexander, Hubert
637
(n. 71); AJ to
565
Alexander, Muriel
128
Allen, Charles
114
Allied Artists’ Association
240
,
330
,
347–8
Allinson, Adrian: painting of Café Royal
120
Alpine Club, Mill Street, London
425
,
430
,
442
,
463
Amiens, France
432
Anderson Gallery, New York
493
Anrep, Boris
315
,
357
; Mallord St mosaic
399
,
497
Anrep, Helen
see
Fry, Helen
Apollinaire, Guillaume
207
Aran Islands
392–3
Arden, Elizabeth
539
Arnold, Matthew
322
Artists’
International Association
560
Ashley, Edith
376
Ashley-Cooper, Dorothea
510
Ashley-Cooper, Lettice
510
Ashwell, Lena: Concerts at the Front
422
Asquith, Lady Cynthia: her impression of AJ’s; ‘Pageant of War’
435
; responds to AJ’s; admiration
439
Augustus John to
27
,
431
,
434
,
441
,
442
,
443
,
475
Asquith, Herbert (son of H. H. Asquith)
419
Asquith, Herbert Henry, Prime Minister
408
,
507
Asquith, Margot
428
Astz, Count von
83
Athlone, Earl of
467
Bach, John
424
Bagenal, Barbara (
née
Hiles)
422
,
612
Bakst, Léon
454
Balfour, A. J.: slumbers while AJ paints
409–10
; and at Paris Peace Conference
441
Balla, Giacomo
343
Balzac, Honoré de
75
,
145
,
148
,
262
,
258
;
Vie conjugale
87
Bankhead, Tallulah
469–70
; AJ’s portrait
470
Barbizon School
91
Barker, Harley Granville
361
Barker, Herbert
424
; AJ to
557
,
588
Barrie, J. M.
454
;
The Boy David
519–21
Barry, James
509
Barry, Philip:
The Philadelphia Story
511
Baudelaire, Charles
145
,
202
,
207
,
295
,
345
Baumer, Lewis
457
Beardsley, Aubrey
xxii
,
36
,
66
,
93
Beaton, Cecil
473
,
498
,
500
; AJ’s portrait
598
;
Beaverbrook, Lord (Max Aitken): on AJ’s Alpine Club exhibition
426
; starts Canadian War Memorials Fund
430
; entertains his Canadians in Paris
433
; saves AJ from court-martial
434
; on Sir James Dunn’s quarrels with AJ
511
; still asking after AJ’s Canadian picture
40
years later
436
Bedford, Stella Maris
see
Conder, Stella
Beecham, Thomas: AJ’s portrait
593
Beerbohm, Florence
89
; Max Beerbohm to
332
Beerbohm, Max: on AJ at Nettleships’
66
; amusing; at a distance
121
; and William Rothenstein
171
,
172
; exhibitions
75
,
332
; attitude to AJ
332
,
533
; caricature of AJ
436
; mentioned
321
R
utherston to
112
Belfont, Mary
37
Belgium: Dorelia and Leonard in
151
,
159
; AJ in
158–9
Bell, Clive: in Paris
248
; speechless admiration at ‘The Childhood of Pyramus’
262
,
330
; as expert on Post-Impressionism
331
; his invitation to AJ to exhibit at Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition turned down
348
,
351
; critical of AJ’s work
xxxii
,
330
,
514
,
515
; mentioned
268
,
350
Walter Lamb to
248
Bell, Quentin
340
,
569
;
Victorian Artists
94
Bell, Vanessa: finds Euphemia Lamb’s scattiness extreme
248
; approves ‘The Childhood of Pyramus’
262
,
330
; on ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’
327
,
328
; thinks AJ’s painting sentimental
330
; mentioned
268
,
517
,
521
Virginia Woolf to
480
Belleroche, William de
589
; AJ to
590
,
595
Benn, Anthony Wedgwood
564–5
Bennett, Arnold
84
Bentinck, Lord Henry
262
Berdyaev, Nicholai
572
Berengaria
492
Berensburg, Monsieur de
13
Bergne, Villiers (Poppet’s husband)
537
,
540
; AJ to
540
Bernard, Émile
344
Berners, Lord
454
Bertorelli’s, London
418
Bibesco, Princess: describes AJ
213
Binyon, Laurence
339–40
; criticism of AJ’s work
107
,
330
; ‘Rubens, Delacroix and Mr John’
333
Birch, John
400
Birkbeck, Chiquita
458–60
Birkbeck, Michael
460
Birley, Oswald
514
Blanche, Jacques-Émile
248
Blast
516
Bloch, Frieda
209
,
210
,
215
,
218
,
219
,
528
Bloomsbury Group
xiii-xiv
,
248–9
,
262
,
264
,
268
,
479
Bloy, Léon
319
Blunt, Anthony: criticism of AJ’s work
xxxii
,
515
Boldini, Giovanni
455
Bone, James: ‘The Tendencies of Modern Art’
329–30
Bonnier, Charles
99
Booth, Viva, AJ to
483
Borrow, George
xxix
,
101–2
,
145
,
281
Boswell, Dorelia
127
Botticelli, Sandro: ‘Primavera’
312
Bottomley, Gordon
282
Boudin, Eugène
500
Boughton-Leigh, Chloë: Gwen John portrait
258
Bouguereau, William
35
Bowser, Isabel
550–1
Boy’s Own Paper
61
Bramley, Frank
91
Brangwyn, Frank
590
; AJ portrait
593
Brenan, Gerald
385
,
538
,
588
,
589
; Partridge to
535
;
A Life of One’s Own
365
,
368
,
384
Brett, the Hon. Dorothy
420–1
,
422
,
432
Brett, the Hon. Sylvia
612
Brighton Evening News
10
British Library
xxix
British Medical Association: Epstein’s statues
203–4
Britten, Benjamin
576
,
640
(n. 33)
Brooke, Humphrey
599
Brooke Bond tea card (Famous People No. 31)
43
Brooks, Romaine
353
‘Brotherhood’, the
61
Broule, Alphonse
309
Brown, Frederick: as head of Slade
34–5
,
36
,
79
,
336
; on students learning from each other
45
; buys AJ’s work
88
,
147
; member of New English Art Club
93
,
107
; mentioned
56
Brownell, Sonia (later Orwell)
582
Browning, Robert
61
,
117
,
263
,
322
Brownsword, Nora
413–15
Browse, Lillian:
Augustus John Drawings
564
Brunner, Sir John: AJ’s portrait
641
(n. 49)
Brunskill, John
520
Buffalo, USA: AJ in
488–9
Bullen, A. H. (ed.): Yeats’s
Collected Poems
242
,
244
,
245
Burlington Magazine
338
,
385
,
572
Burne-Jones, Philip
328
Burns, Tom
543
;
The Use of Memory
540
,
547
Bussy, Simon
262
Cadieux (music hall artist)
37
Cadwalladyr (a speechless shrimper)
18
Café Royal, London: AJ’s legendary entrances
70
; home from home
119–20
,
123
; takes Symons there for cure
298
; meetings of Allied Artists’ Association
348
; waiters and Mrs Strindberg
377
; AJ there on night war is declared
401
; a bit ‘thick’ in the war
417
; AJ lunches in khaki at
430
; Cole’s meeting with future wife
524
; mentioned
322
Café Verrey, London
418