Walking home from the British Library

I live near enough to the British Library to be able to walk to it. On Saturday I had a bit of a Paolozzi moment. First of all I listened to a recording of him talking about people he had known as part of the historic sound recordings kept [Read More…]

Sigmund Freud Museum

Visited this in Maresfield Gardens in Swiss Cottage.  There are two art things of interest. Firstly,  a sketch of Freud done surreptitiously by Salvador Dali, who managed to visit him during the brief period he lived here in 1938/9. Secondly, a watercolour of a plant given by Lucian to Anna [Read More…]

Edinburgh

To the Dean Gallery to work in their Archives on Peter Watson. They have some Roland Penrose material which is helpful. Whilst there I look at the extraordinary reconstruction of Paolozzi’s studio. There aren’t many of these studio recreations in the British Isles that I am aware of. [Read More…]