Francis and Vanessa

Peter Campbell

  • Francis Bacon by Michel Leiris, translated by John Weightman
    Phaidon, 271 pp, £50.00, September 1983, ISBN 0 7148 2218 3
  • Vanessa Bell by Frances Spalding
    Weidenfeld, 399 pp, £12.95, August 1983, ISBN 0 297 78162 6
  • The Omega Workshops by Judith Collins
    Secker, 310 pp, £15.95, January 1984, ISBN 0 436 10562 4
  • The Omega Workshops 1913-1919: Decorative Arts of Bloomsbury
    Crafts Council, 96 pp, £6.95, March 1984, ISBN 0 903789 72 8
  • The Omega Workshops: Alliance and Enmity in English Art 1911-1920
    Anthony d’Offay Gallery, 80 pp, £4.95, February 1984, ISBN 0 947564 00 4

In Elizabeth Taylor’s novel The Wedding Group, published in 1968, there is a grand old painter called Harry Bretton. He is modelled, I would guess, on Eric Gill, for the Life, and Stanley Spencer, for the Work. Musing by the studio window, he considers his place in history:

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