Seventy Years in a Colourful Trade
Andrew O’Hagan: The Soho Alphabet, 16 July 2020
Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia
by Darren Coffield.
Unbound, 364 pp., £25, April 2020,978 1 78352 816 5 Show More
by Darren Coffield.
Unbound, 364 pp., £25, April 2020,
“... took a taxi, unless she hadn’t a penny, even for the Tube, whereupon she walked, as the painter Robert Colquhoun did on the evening of one of his openings, from the Colony Room to the Whitechapel Gallery, three miles in the pouring rain.Francis Bacon was 39 when he tipped up at the club in 1948. He was introduced to it by Brian Howard, the poet and ... ”