Shadow 1940: Signed (2 results)
Published by The United Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions / The Women's General Missionary Society, Philadelphia / Pittsburgh 1942
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Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. 372p., cloth-covered boards with gilt titles, map endpapers, illus., boards lightly edgeworn else very good later printing; signed by Campbell on the verso of the frontispiece.
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Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United KingdomJames Fergusson Books & Manuscripts
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Very Good. Gelatin silver print, 160 x 114mm. A little creased at one corner. Image (taken by the artist, or another?) of a sleeping boy (at Bryanston School? Michael Nelson?), the shadow of a hand looming Gothicly over him. On the verso, an early autograph note signed from Lucian Freud, addressed to Sonia… Brownell from the Shoulder of Mutton, Hadleigh, Suffolk: "Dear Sonia, Here is the Shadow of My hand about two years ago. Love LUCIAN". With a pencilled telephone number and Brownell's several pencilled to-do lists, "Tony Witherby / Charlie Ritchie / Murrough Loftus / Du Plessis / Michael Stewart"; "Sally / Cyril / Stephen"; "Write / Anthony / Basil / Bay / Ronnie [?] / Michael . . ." Lucian Freud (Lucian Michael Freud, 1922-2011) first met Sonia Brownell (Sonia Mary Brownell, later Orwell, later Pitt-Rivers, 1918-1980), according to her biographer Hilary Spurling, "as a schoolboy at the [Rodrigo] Moynihans' in the early stages of her affair with [William] Coldstream [1939-41], [and] briefly succeeded him as her lover. The two remained afterwards on affectionate terms, often forming a trio with Francis Bacon on long drunken nights that ended at the Gargoyle". Freud left Bryanston School under a cloud at the end of 1938 and enrolled for a term at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, moving in summer 1939 to Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines' East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Dedham, Essex, lodging in a pub, the Marlborough Head. After the school burnt down in July 1939 (was it Freud's fault? "Someone offered me a cigarette for the first time, and I put it down and didn't put it out"), the school re-established in May 1940 at Benton End in Hadleigh, Suffolk; from May and for much of the rest of the year Freud was based at another pub, the Shoulder of Mutton. Through the painter Bill Coldstream, Brownell had met Cyril Connolly and Stephen Spender, who, with the backing of Peter Watson (né Victor William Watson, 1908-1956), were setting up a new "review of literature & art", Horizon, the first number of which, dated January 1940, was published in mid-December 1939. The 17-year-old Freud was introduced the same month by Spender to Watson, who became an enthusiastic patron; Horizon printed a self-portrait by Freud in its fourth issue, for April 1940. From Brownell Spender had commissioned a Young Painters number, but that month Watson scuppered it. Later, in 1945, she would join the Horizon staff full-time as Connolly's de facto deputy editor. In 1949 she married her sometime lover George Orwell, a Horizon contributor; Freud was drinking with her the night in 1950 that Orwell died. David Dawson and Martin Gayford print other letters to Sonia Brownell/Orwell, but not this, in Love Lucian: the letters of Lucian Freud 1939-1954 (2022). Inscribed by Author(s).
