Put a fist through it
Harriet Baker: The Hampstead Modernists, 8 October 2020
Circles and Squares: The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists
by Caroline Maclean.
Bloomsbury, 296 pp., £30, April,978 1 4088 8969 5 Show More
by Caroline Maclean.
Bloomsbury, 296 pp., £30, April,
The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour
by Shelley Klein.
Chatto, 271 pp., £16.99, April,978 1 78474 310 9 Show More
by Shelley Klein.
Chatto, 271 pp., £16.99, April,
“... where ‘the hard chairs, the skimpy wine, & the very nice sensible conversation’ left Virginia Woolf cold but where, as Geoffrey Grigson remembered, one might bump into Braque … or Jean Hélion from Paris, or Eliot gayer than his reputation, actually singing ‘Frankie and Johnny’. The exodus from Hitler’s Reich having begun, one ... ”