Augustus John (154 page)
Authors: Michael Holroyd
Ethel Nettleship to
233
Nevinson, C. R. W
333
,
336
,
343
,
357
,
407
,
435
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
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
Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, France: monastery
86–7
Novello, Ivor
545
Nuts
(newspaper)
37
Obachs, New Bond Street
173
O’Casey, Eileen
(née
Reynolds)
518
,
519
O’Casey, Sean
xxv
,
476
,
518
; AJ to
476
,
565
O’Connor, John
489
Olivier, Noël
286
Olympic,
SS
488
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
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
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
Piggott, Stuart: AJ to
540
Pisanello, Antonio
512
Pissarro, Camille
344
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, 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’
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
Pre-Raphaelitism
54
,
55
,
91
,
138
,
330
Prescelly Mountains, Wales
5
,
27
Preston Deanery Hall, Northampton: AJ’s ‘rest cure’
506
,
507–8
,
511
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
Prydderch, Mr (‘buttocks strangely protuberant’)
18
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre
79
,
207
,
229
,
236
,
257
,
319
,
329
,
337
,
342
,
353
Quaritch (Bernard) Ltd
xxvi
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