Autobiography of My Mother (39 page)

Jack Flanagan. Jack was a great dancer and very recently divorced. Women were mad about him.

‘Perdita Adams'. Unfortunately my looks in real life didn't live up to the photograph.

Norman Lindsay at Springwood. For years I had been hearing about and wanting to meet the artist because of his connection to my cousin Jack Flanagan, whose early career he had helped.

Ready for an Artists' Ball in a hired costume. I had to pester and pester Mum before she'd allow me to go to my first of these events.

Percy Lindsay in a Roman toga with me as a flamenco dancer at an Artists' Ball in 1940.

The Party
by Norman Lindsay, a watercolour from 1933; Norman's depiction of a farewell party Alison Rehfisch threw for George Duncan when he was leaving Australia. Norman is on the far left in a black jacket and bow tie. (© H., C. and A. Glad)

With Norman Lindsay at 12 Bridge Street, taken around 1937 when he was working on oil paintings such as
Solly
and
Spring's Innocence
.

Painting in the bush, with Norman and Dora Jarret.

Preparing for my first one-person show in 1938.

Hydrangeas with Chinese Figure
(watercolour), 1934.

The Offering
(watercolour), a study of the model Olive, which was exhibited in 1936.

Douglas Stewart on Observatory Hill
, 1939. This was painted on the day Douglas heard that his mother had died in New Zealand.

Douglas Stewart. He was dark and dramatic-looking with a smouldering quality.