Augustus John (154 page)

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