Nina Hamnett (1890-1956), talented artist and legendary queen of bohemia in London and Paris, was immortalized in the paintings, sculptures, novels, poems, diaries and memoirs of her contemporaries; while her portraits of her famous friends are amongst her finest work.   Her friendships with Sickret, Augustus John, Wyndham Lewis, the Sitwells, Nancy Cunard and the 'Bloomsberries' cut across the rival artistic coteries of the time.  Her many lovers included Gaudier-Brzeska and Roger Fry.  In Paris before the First World War, where she danced naked at studio parties, she was a close friend of Modigliani.  Her talents as a painters and draughtswoman made her an important member of the English modern movement and she was a mainstay of Fry's Omega Workshops. Nina was a best-known British woman painter in Paris in the twenties, friendly with Ford Madox Ford, Joyce, and Gertrude Stein as well as Princess Violette Murat, Cocteau, Radiguet, Satie, Stravinsky and Les Six. Back in England she lived in the composer Peter Warlock's bizarre household, exhibited widely and collaborated on a book with Osbert Sitwell.   The book, which is largely based on personal interviews and original research, is an account of Nina's life, her work and the bohemian world she lived in.

Nina Hamnett, queen of Bohemia

Hooker, Denise

Constable

Nina Hammett: Queen of Bohemia

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Constable & Robinson Ltd.

<p>Comprehensive book spans the artistic achievements of Western civilization from Classical antiquity to Post-Modernism.  Illustrated with 500 plates.</p>

History of Western Art

Barnes&Noble

Spanning the supreme artistic achievements of western civilization from classical antiquity to post-modernism, this book - linked to an 18-part Channel 4 series - is an illustrated account of western art. It is divided into 18 chapters, each corresponding to one episode of the series, and each written by a specialist on that period. Particular attention is paid to the social context in which the artist worked and each chapter includes an interpretative guide to two works considered by the author to be particularly representative of the period.

Art of the Western World

Arts & Photography

Wood, Michæl

History & Criticism

Pan/Macmillan

Art of the Western world

Boxtree Ltd.

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