Augustus John (144 page)

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

Alington, Lord
454
,
455
,
510
,
593

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

Anquetin, Louis
193
,
342

Anrep, Boris
315
,
357
; Mallord St mosaic
399
,
497

Anrep, Helen
see
Fry, Helen

Apollinaire, Guillaume
207

Aran Islands
392–3

Arden, Elizabeth
539

Arles, France
308
,
309
,
315

Armory Show (1913)
334
,
488

Arnold, Matthew
322

Arthur (a groom)
284
,
287
,
293

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

Athenaeum
94
,
173
,
292

Athlone, Earl of
467

Aubigny, France
431
,
434

Avignon, France
307
,
315

Ayrton, Michael
466
,
562
,
563

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

Bastien-Lepage, Jules
91
,
92

Baudelaire, Charles
145
,
202
,
207
,
295
,
345

Baumer, Lewis
457

Bayeux, Normandy
216
,
274
,
496

Bazin, Albert
317–18
,
397
,
482

Beardsley, Aubrey
xxii
,
36
,
66
,
93

Beaton, Cecil
473
,
498
,
500
; AJ’s portrait
598
;

Augustus John to
456
,
596

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

Berlin, AJ in
485
,
486

Berlin, Sven
560
fn
,
600

Bernard, Émile
344

Berners, Lord
454

Bertorelli’s, London
418

Bevan, Robert
330
,
348

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

Birrell, Augustine
479
,
483

Blaker, Hugh
328
,
669
(n. 56)

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

Blunt, Wilfrid
328
,
334

Boer War
84
,
96
,
113

Boldini, Giovanni
455

Bomberg, David
343
,
401
,
427

Bone, James: ‘The Tendencies of Modern Art’
329–30

Bone, Muirhead
173
,
174
,
258

Bonnard, Pierre
292
,
344–5

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

British Museum
36
,
56
,
200
,
417

Britten, Benjamin
576
,
640
(n. 33)

Broad Haven, Wales
6
,
11

Brooke, Humphrey
599

Brooke, Rupert
282
,
286
,
528

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