Augustus John (154 page)

Read Augustus John Online

Authors: Michael Holroyd

Ethel Nettleship to
233

Nevinson, C. R. W
333
,
336
,
343
,
357
,
407
,
435

New Age
94
,
319
,
404
,
454
,
566

New Chenil Gallery
477–80
,
552

New English Art Club (NEAC), London: foundation of
91
; original members
91–2
; control passes to ‘the London Impressionists’
92–3
; AJ exhibits at
51
,
81
,
93–4
,
95
,
107
,
124–5
,
240
; Gwen John thankful to be free of
94–5
; AJ persuades her to exhibit (1908)
258
; as British fortress against French Post- Impressionism
347
; AJ loyal then defects
348
; AJ exhibits again (1911): fades
476
; mentioned
39
,
304
,
397

Exhibitions
(
see also
Appendix Two, pp.
606–6
):
1902
124–5
;
1903
137–8
;
1904
94
,
173
;
1907
157
;
1908
258
;
1909
138
,
277
,
282
,
300
;
1910
334
;
1911
191
,
349
,
396
;
1912
335
,
396
;
1913
396
;
1915
412
;
1916
407
;
1925
95

New Gallery: ‘Exhibition of Fair Women’
258

‘Newlyn Group’
91–2

News of the World
439

New Statesman
514

New York, USA: AJ’s six visits to
488
,
489–90
,
492–3
; is bewitched by Harlem
490–1
,
492

New York Times
489

Nice, France: AJ’s visit to Frank Harris
321
,
322–5

Nichols, David
38

Nicholson, Ben
560

Nicholson, William: visitor to the Rothensteins’
121
; exhibits at Chenil Gallery
200
; presents AJ with huge canvas
258
; AJ and Max Beerbohm dine with
332
; AJ’s portrait
208
,
278–9
,
331
,
332
,
333
,
464
,
488
; mentioned
407

Nicolson, Harold
569

Nietzsche, Friedrich
207
,
213

Norman, Montagu: AJ’s portrait
465–6

Normandy: Bayeux
216
,
274
,
496
; Cherbourg
274
,
281
,
496
; Deauville
442
; Port-en-Bessin
215
,
217
; Ste-Honorine
215–20
; Vattetot-sur-Mer
75–7

Norton, Lucy
449
,
592

Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, France: monastery
86–7

Novello, Ivor
545

Nuts
(newspaper)
37

Obachs, New Bond Street
173

Observer
335
,
430
,
435
,
443
,
569

O’Casey, Breon
579–80
(
689
n.
98
)

O’Casey, Eileen
(née
Reynolds)
518
,
519

O’Casey, Sean
xxv
,
476
,
518
; AJ to
476
,
565

The Silver Tassie
454
,
518–19

O’Connor, John
489

O’Dea, Bishop
405
,
406

Olivier, Noël
286

Olympic,
SS
488

Omega Workshops
335
,
346
,
426

Orage, A. R.:
New Age
404
,
427
,
453
~
4
,
566

Orchardson, Sir William
91

O’Rourke, Mollie: AJ to
537

Orpen, Grace (
née
Knewstub)
75
,
77

Orpen, William: appearance
51
,
52
; modesty
51
; relationship with AJ
51–2
; at Mrs Everett’s ‘bun-worries’
53
; shares Charlotte St studio
68
; as one of Café Royal ‘three musketeers’
70
; in campaign against St Paul’s Cathedral mosaics
74
; exhibits at Carfax Gallery
75
; in Vattetot-sur-Mer painting party
75
,
76
,
77
; portrait of AJ
44
,
75
,
279
; Ida poses for
77–8
; blames AJ for illness
78
; tells Everett of AJ’s scandalous escapades
79
; suffers from lack of sleep
80–1
; with AJ in Albany Street
85
; on AJ
88
,
89
,
90
; exhibits at NEAC
94
; on Wyndham Lewis spreading gossip
114
; and Chelsea Art School
138
,
139
,
144
,
199
; finances Chenil Gallery
200
; grows attached to gorilla
201
; joins Royal Academy
347
; shoots hole through one of his pictures
394
; as war artist
431
,
433
; invited to paint Paris Peace Conference (1919)
439
; mentioned
581

‘The Café Royal’
120

‘The Play Scene in
Hamlet’
51
,
75
,
77

Augustus John to
82
,
83
,
236

Orvieto, Italy
312

Orwell, George
576

Osborn, W. E.
345

O’Sullivan, Miss (art teacher)
29

Padua, Italy
312

Paget-Fredericks, Baron
456

Pall Mall Gazette
331

Paradou, Provence
308

Paris: Ida, Gwen Salmond and Gwen John study in
70–4
; AJ joins them
72–3
,
78–9
,
150–1
; Ida’s
ménage-a-trois
186
,
193–9
; AJ’s meetings with Wyndham-Lewis
202
; atmosphere favourable to an artist
206–7
; literary world
207–8
; Caveau des Innocents
208
; Gwen John depressed by ‘horrible rooms’
222–3
; AJ’s studio
223
; Dorelia’s
logement
on rue du Château
223–4
,
225
; Christmas 1906
224–5
; crowded with bourgeoisie
229
; AJ cannot find primitive inspiration
241
; AJ remains with Dorelia (1908)
270–1
; world’s greatest stock-exchange for art
345–6
; ‘preferable to Chelsea’ (1910)
357
; special entertainment at the Hotel Bristol (1917)
433
; under bombardment (1918)
437

Paris Peace Conference: AJ invited as artist to
439–41
,
454

Park Studio, Kensington
521

Partridge, Ralph
535

Pasmore, Victor
517
,
537

Patmore, Coventry
322

Paulton Square (No.
55
), London
222

Pearson, Hesketh: Beerbohm Tree to
119

Extraordinary People
323

Pearson, John:
The Life of Ian Fleming
458

Penrose, Beacus
526

Peppard, nr Henley-on-Thames
269
,
271
,
359

Perugia, Italy
312

Perugino
312

Pevril Tower, Swanage
74
,
82–4
,
90

Phelps, Elspeth
89

Phillips, Doris: AJ to
596

Phillips, Sir Lawrence
514

Phillips, Mrs Lionel
304

Picasso, Pablo: meeting with AJ
257
,
336
; AJ’s; opinion of work
257
,
342
,
344
; mentioned
328
,
335
,
588

Pier Hotel, Battersea Bridge
562

Piero della Francesca
312
,
512

Piggott, Stuart: AJ to
540

Piper, David
285
,
339

Pisanello, Antonio
512

Pissarro, Camille
344

Pissarro, Lucien
173–4
,
300
,
348

Pitman, Hugo
420
,
470–1
,
500
,
586
; AJ to
587

Pitman, Reine
495

Pittsburgh, USA: Carnegie International Exhibition (1910)
333
,
488

Playter, Phyllis: John Cowper Powys to
593

Pléneuf, France
437–8

Plunket-Greene, Olivia
546–7

Pol, Poppet (
née
John): birth
389
; nicknamed ‘Poppet’
390
; childhood
369
,
405
,
413
,
450
; lack of education
412
,
536
; relationship with Dorelia
388
; relationship with AJ
447
,
474
,
482
,
535
,
536–7
; AJ’s portrait of her
445
; ‘a great flirt’
541
; life at Villa Ste-Anne
482
; with AJ in Italy
486–7
; and move to Fryern
498
,
500
; warns AJ of ‘man called Hitler’
522
; marriages
537
; war work
563
; loses temper with AJ
582
; talks with author
xx
; mentioned
458
,
522
,
581
,
601

Augustus John to
489–90
,
511
,
599

Pol, Willelm
683
(n. 119)

Pooley, Hugh
385
,
386
,
387

Pooley, Michaela
385–6

Portal, Lord
558–9

Port-en-Bessin, Normandy
215
,
217

Porteus, Hugh Gordon
575

Post-Impressionism: campaign against
39–40
; AJ diverges from
240–1
; AJ’s reactions to
341–2
,
344
,
345
;
see also
‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’
and
‘Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition’

Postbridge, Dartmoor
182
,
183–5

Pound, Ezra
402
,
416

Pound, Reginald: AJ to
26

Powell, Anthony
xix
,
502
,
566
,
579
,
600

Powys brothers
538

Powys, John Cowper
xxv–xxvi
; sits to AJ
593–4

Poynter, Sir Edward
33–4
,
75

Pre-Raphaelitism
54
,
55
,
91
,
138
,
330

Prescelly Mountains, Wales
5
,
27

Preston Deanery Hall, Northampton: AJ’s ‘rest cure’
506
,
507–8
,
511

Priestley, J. B.
514
,
593

Prothero, Lady M. F.
237

Provence
xix
,
312
,
337
,
347
,
524
; Aix
320–1
,
589
; Arles
308
,
309
,
315
; Avignon
307
; Les Baux
308–9
; Martigues
316–20
,
325–6
,
335
,
337
,
397
,
481–3
,
497
; St-Rémy
521–2
,
574

Prust, Robert
17
,
59

Prydderch, Mr (‘buttocks strangely protuberant’)
18

Pryde, James
121
,
200
,
260
,
479

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre
79
,
207
,
229
,
236
,
257
,
319
,
329
,
337
,
342
,
353

Quaritch (Bernard) Ltd
xxvi

Queen
(magazine)
335
,
478

Queen’s Restaurant, Sloane Square
504
,
518
,
581
,
591–2

Quennell, Peter
591

Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur
507

Quinn, John: ‘twentieth century’s most important patron of living literature and art’
299
; character traits
300
,
301–2
; relationship with AJ
300–1
,
303–4
; and Agnes Tobin
302
; brings AJ, Symons and Miss Tobin together
299
; AJ’s portrait and his response
xviii
,
299–300
; warns AJ against venereal disease
302–3
,
311
; medical lunacy
303
; sends Christmas cake and money
307
,
310
,
326
; alarmed at AJ and Bazin
317–18
; on doubling ‘efficiency’
318
; sends AJ American notices
333
; sends Huneker’s book
338
; buys Gauguin ceiling
342
; relies on AJ for information about contemporary British art (
see also Augustus John to
(
below
))
342
; badgers and bullies Gwen John
343
; AJ buys him Camden Town Group pictures
348
,
349
; and AJ’s involvement with Mrs Strindberg
375
,
377–8
; with AJ in France
378–80
; on AJ’s ‘pot-boilers’
410
; believes AJ to have masterminded Epstein hoax
424
; fails to help Gwen John financially
438
; last encounter with AJ
491–2
; death
492
; mentioned
xviii
,
xxvii
,
334
,
551

Other books

Finding Their Son by Debra Salonen
Out of My Element by Taryn Plendl
The Billionaire's Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace
Sottopassaggio by Nick Alexander
Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov
La nariz by Nikolái Gógol
The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards