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Anthony Powell — The Artist as a Young Man
Powell is known as a novelist and book critic, but he probably began drawing before he knew how to write. In his autobiography, he relates that by the time he was six, his drawings, including a Mephistopheles, were shown to a visitor to his family. The term Post Impressionism (then recently introduced by Roger Fry) was bantered as the pictures were critiqued. He began at Eton in 1919 and took Extra Drawing from the drawing master Sidney Evans, who first told him of Picasso and Matisse. At Eton he drew for an art magazine, The Eton Candle (1922) , and at Oxford, which he attended from 1923 to 1026, his drawings appeared in another magazine, The Cherwell. His drawing Colonel Caesar Cannonbrains of the Black Hussars (1922) is reproduced in To Keep the Ball Rolling (p56).
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Vienna porcelain mixed up with the Meissen
Jenkins encounters Lord Huntercombe at Mrs. Foxe’s reception. They are in the libary where Jenkins had first seen the Romney years before. Now the copy of Truth Unveiled by Time is on display. After Lord Huntercombe examines it, he “smiles wryly” at … Continue reading
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Chabrier and the Impressionists
Moreland peruses a book while visiting the Maclintick’s apartment: “The life of Chabrier is enjoyable…. Why wasn’t one a nineteenth century composer living in Paris and hobnobbing with the Impressionist painters?” [CCR 108/] The French composer Alexis-Emannuel Chabrier (1841-1894) merits … Continue reading
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Images — Goya’s Winter
Jenkins is speaking with his brother-in-law, Robert Tolland, who says while playing a record, “I love Les Parfums de la Nuit. I think that really is the bit I like best.” The passage continues with Jenkins asking, “‘ Do you … Continue reading
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Norman Chandler, if painted by Picasso
Moreland says of Norman Chandler, “The great artists have always decided beforehand what form looks are to take in the world, and Norman is pure Picasso — one of those attenuated, androgynous mountebanks of the Blue Period, who haven’t had … Continue reading
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French Eighteenth Century Engravings
Backstage after The Duchess of Malfi, Moreland takes Nick to meet Matilda in her dressing room. “The scene was a little like those depicted in French eighteenth-century engravings where propriety is archly threatened in the presence of an amorous abbé … Continue reading
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Madonna and Child by Benozzo Gozzoli
In support of the artistic ambitions of her protege Norman Chandler, Mrs. Foxe has invited the Huntercombes to her party. Lord Huntercombe is regarded as a connoisseur of paintings: “He had caught napping one of the best known Bond Street … Continue reading
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Moreland on Women: Lhote, Gleize, Rembrandt, Cézanne
Admiring a waitress at Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant, Barnby proposes to ask her to model for him. Moreland says: “I don’t quite see her in your medium, but that is obviously the painter’s own affair. If I have a passion for … Continue reading
Frescoes at Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant after Watteau
Moreland is explaining the name of Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant: “There used to be the New Casanova . . . where the cooking was Italian and the decoration French eighteenth century —some way, some considerable way, after Watteau. Further up the … Continue reading
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Moreland and Barnby talk Art
About 1928, Huge Moreland and Ralph Barnby talk about art when they meet at the Mortimer [CCR 30-31]. Moreland said of Barnby: “I can see Ralph has talent…but why use combinations of colour that make you think he is a … Continue reading
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Caricatures of Thackery or President Thiers
Mingling with the artsy drinkers at the Mortimer, Jenkins describes Maclintick, whose “calculatedly humdrum appearance, although shabby, seemed aimed at concealing bohemian affiliations. The minute circular lens of his gold-rimmed spectacles, set across the nose of a pug dog, made … Continue reading
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