Augustus John (149 page)
Authors: Michael Holroyd
1914–20
and declaration of war
401
,
402–3
; drills with Wadsworth at RA
402
; refuses presidency of Ormonde Terrace scheme
427
; sees Gwen John in Paris
403–4
; presides at Vivien’s birth
412
; and Lady Gregory’s use of Shaw as bait
410
; three portraits survive
410–12
; plans picture of Galway
405–6
,
407
; Lloyd George a ‘hot-arse’
408–9
, MacDonald too dim a subject
409
, Balfour asleep
409–10
; knee operation and rejected for military service
424
; wartime affairs
415–16
; parties in Mallord Street
421–2
; paints Admiral Fisher
407
; Epstein sculpts his head and suspects conspiracy
423–4
; exhibits at the Alpine Club
425–6
; paints Lady Cynthia Asquith
428–9
; produces lithograph for
British Aims and Ideals
429
; off to war as a Canadian Major
430
; calls on Gwen John
436–7
; billeted at Aubigny
431–2
; with Wyndham Lewis at Lieven
432–3
,
434
; as guest of Lord Beaverbrook
433
; knocks out fellow officer
434
; back in England ‘in a state of utter mental confusion’
434–5
; starts Canadian cartoon and ‘Fraternity’
435–6
; at Adelphi on Armistice Day
438–9
; attends Paris Peace Conference
439–41
; begins friendship with T. E. Lawrence
454
; paints Lawrence and Marchesa Casati
454–5
; reluctant to be demobilized
441–2
; ‘very unstable’
442
; as guest of Lloyd George
442
; exhibits portraits at Alpine Club
442
; has nose operation
442
1920–9
Kathleen Hale as secretary
445–6
; non-election to Royal Academy
475
; and Lord Leverhulme’s decapitated portrait
467–9
; Mallord Street parties
446–7
; finds motor cars irresistible
447–50
; speaks of suicide
450
; interested in Sampson’s dictionary
452
; Casati and other women
456–7
; affairs with Eve Fleming
457–8
,
461
, and Chiquita
458–9
(
see
Hicks, Zoë; Fleming, Amaryllis); paints Suggia
462–4
; in Spain
483–5
; first visit to USA
487–92
; last meeting with Quinn
491–2
; meets and paints Hardy
464–5
; second visit to USA
492–3
; ‘only drunk’ (not mad) at Taillteann Games
485
; lays foundation stone for New Chenil Galleries
478–9
; in Berlin with Eve Fleming
485
,
486
; paints Stresemann
461
,
485–6
;
en famille
in Ischia
486–7
; walks through Provence with Cole
524
; begins portrait of Lord D’Abernon
466–7
; and move to Fryern Court
496
,
498–9
,
500
; ‘gloom, gloom, gloom’
501–2
; helps Gwen John buy Yew Tree Cottage
551
,
552
; paints du Maurier
469–70
; sells Villa Ste-Anne
496–7
; last voyage to USA
493–6
; elected to RA
476
; drinking heavily
504–5
; consults psychologist
505–6
1929–42
exhibits at Tooth’s Gallery
480
; designs sets for O’Casey’s
The Silver Tassie
518–19
; begins portrait of Montagu Norman
465–6
; agrees to ‘rest cure’ at Preston Deanery Hall
506–8
,
511
; taken in hand by Dorelia
508–9
; paints Yeats
509–10
; admiring entourage at Renvyle
510–11
; draws Joyce
511–12
; Sampson bequeaths him Smith and Wesson revolver
548–9
; attends scattering of Sampson’s ashes
549
; in Majorca
512
; with Ada Nettleship at her death
548
; in Venice with Vivien
512–13
; affair with Mavis Cole
525–6
,
527–8
; as Tristan’s father
525
,
526
,
527
; identifies son’s body
547
; hopes for miracle at Cole’s funeral
549–60
; with Caitlin (
q.v.
)
and Dylan Thomas in Laugharne
531–3
; elected President of Gypsy Lore Society
561
; scenery and costumes for Barrie’s
The Boy David
519–21
; in Jamaica
513–14
; attends father’s funeral
554
; resigns from RA
476–7
; challenges Mortimer Wheeler to duel
526–7
; signs contract with Jonathan Cape for autobiography
566–7
; begins portrait of Queen
470–3
; and outbreak of Second World War
522
,
557
; labours over ‘The Little Concert’
557–8
; unsatisfactory wartime portraiture
558–60
; gets Shaw to amuse Montgomery
559–60
; petitions MPs on behalf of gypsies
560
; has evacuees at Fryern
561
; unperturbed by air raids
562
; stature grows
562
; life ‘a hideous sham’
563
; contributes to
Horizon
567
; offered knighthood
564
; Dorelia refuses him
564
; pleased with Order of Merit
564–5
1942–61
quarrels with Edwin
571–3
; returns to St-Rémy
574
; begins ‘Les Saintes-Maries de la Mer…’
595–8
; thinks of writing Gwen John memoir
572–3
; ‘immobilized with work’ at Fryern
580
; continues jousting with Wyndham Lewis
590–1
; ‘a ghost’
575
; Moorehead suggests he write AJ’s biography
xiii
,
583–4
; publishes
Chiaroscuro
565–6
,
567–70
; feels ‘longings to sculpt’
592–3
;
Finishing Touches
languishes
570
; politics in 1950s
575–8
; studies of ‘old buffers’
593–4
; RA exhibition of works
585–7
; double operation
587–8
; convalesces in Spain
588–9
; last journey abroad
589–90
; interviewed by Muggeridge
592
; publishes
Fifty-five Drawings
585
; at Earp’s funeral
590
; with Matthew Smith in Chelsea
591–2
; given Freedom of Tenby
594
; ‘Work as usual’
595
; phantoms from past
595
; begins portrait of Beaton
598
; meets Greta Garbo
598
; at Trafalgar Square sit-down
578–9
; last weeks and death
599
; funeral
599–600
; grave
xv
; obituaries
600
; memorial service
600
; memorial statue
xv
appearance and clothes:
as young man
44
,
45
,
46
,
57
,
58
,
59
,
70
,
96
,
119
,
212–13
,
243
,
245
,
246
,
260–1
; in his thirties and forties
263
,
282
,
320
,
322
,
323–4
,
332
,
420–1
,
444
,
449
; in his fifties
500–1
,
504
,
530
,
579
; in his sixties
529
,
562
; in old age
xiv
,
579
,
590
,
592
,
594
artistic influences
54–5
,
56
,
78–9
,
87
,
105
,
145
,
162
,
236
,
240–1
,
257
,
355
,
484–5
attitudes to art movements and contemporary art
120–1
,
341–54
,
426–7
attitude to money and his generosity
80
,
119–20
,
122
,
420
,
456
attitude to women
59–60
,
67–8
,
83
,
87
,
208–9
,
504
,
528
,
530–1
,
598
autobiographies see Chiaroscuro; Finishing Touches
books read
15
,
21
,
37
,
145
,
148
,
319
,
565–6
,
576
character
6–7
,
26–8
,
38
,
43–7
,
53–4
,
58–9
,
60
,
70
,
79–80
,
172
,
249–50
criticisms of his work
xxxii
,
26
,
329–36
,
425–7
,
435
,
487
,
514
-I
7
,
521–2
,
523
,
557
,
586–7
,
600–1
friendships
38
,
201
,
203
,
208
,
453–4
interest in gypsies
see
gypsies
interest in ‘Red Indians’
13
,
15
,
17
,
26
,
29
melancholia
24
,
27–8
,
212
,
259–60
,
305
,
442
,
450
,
501–2
,
511
,
598–9
WORKS (see also
pp.
604–6
,
613–14
)
‘Aminta’
514
‘Ardor’
129
‘The Blue Shawl’
600
‘Calderari’
396
‘Caravan at Dusk’
600
‘The Childhood of Pyramus’
262
,
330
‘Daphne’
514
‘The Dawn’
429
‘Dorelia in the Garden at Alderney Manor’
xxv
‘Dorelia Standing before a Fence’
127
,
600
‘Esther’
125
‘The Flute of Pan’
396
‘French Fisher-boy’
257
‘Girl on the Cliff’ (‘Nirvana’)
275–6
,
277
,
279
‘Ida in a Tent’
600
‘The Jewess’
641
(n. 42)
‘Lynn Cynlog’
351–2
‘The Man from New York’
299–300
‘The Mauve Jersey’
410
‘Merikli’
124–5
‘Miss McNeill’
129
‘Moses and the Brazen Serpent’
56
,
72
and fn
‘The Mulatto’
641
(n. 42)
‘The Mumper’s Child’
600
‘Nant-ddu’
352
‘Old Arthy’
641
(n. 42)
‘The Old Haberdasher’
641
(n. 42)
‘Old Lady’
69
‘Out on the Moor’
184
‘The Pageant of War’
435–6
‘Peasant Woman with Baby and Small Boy’
257
‘Pyramus and Thisbe’
184
‘Phyllis’
514
‘The Red Skirt’
600
‘Rustic Scene’
638
(n. 88)
‘Les Saintes-Maries de la Mer with Sainte Sara, l’Egyptienne’
319
,
595–6
,
597–8
,
601
‘The Smiling Woman’
127
,
258
,
330
,
331
,
332
,
463
,
600
‘Study of an Undine’
214
‘Symphonie Espagnole’
484
‘Woman Knitting’
410
John, Caspar (AJ and Ida’s second son): ‘a roaring boy’
123
,
126
; toothless at ten months
142
; ‘spoilt’
163
; and new baby
167
; in France
192
,
193
,
194
,
195
; an acrobat
196
,
197
; at Ste-Honorine
216
; at school
226
; with Nettleships in London
238
; Mrs Nettleship takes to Equihen
247
; carried in sack through Brittany
256
; returns to AJ and Dorelia
273–4
; relationship with AJ
535–6
; at Villa Ste-Anne
318–19
; and cows and horses at Alderney
367
; school at Dane Court
385
,
386–7
, and Osborne
536
; makes navy his career
387–8
,
540
; on Mallord Street parties
421–2
; with AJ at ‘Galway races & attendant activities’
509–10
; rejects Brigit Macnamara
529
; marries
540
; reads lesson at AJ’s memorial service
600
; helps author with research
xvii
,
xxi
,
xxiii
,
xxiv
,
xxxi
; mentioned
191
,
315
,
390
,
554