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Lot 103

JOHN (AUGUSTUS)
Autograph letter, unsigned, to his fellow artist William Orpen ("Dear Bill"), [early 1905], illustrated with a self-portrait of John with Dorelia, Ida and their three sons setting off for a picnic

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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JOHN (AUGUSTUS)

Autograph letter, unsigned, to his fellow artist William Orpen ("Dear Bill"), sending on a letter from Mrs Gardiner ("...Will you take alternate weeks as I cannot see her every week: & say how much you think we ought to ask would 10/6 a visit be too much?..."), and announcing that "We are off for a picnic to-day"; also saying that he saw Charles McEvoy the day before ("...His voice is at times as bad as Ambrose's..."), 4 pages, some slight dust-staining to the first and last, 8vo, [early 1905]

Footnotes

ILLUSTRATED WITH A SELF-PORTRAIT OF JOHN WITH DORELIA, IDA, AND THEIR THREE SONS, about to set off on a picnic, drawn in pen-and-ink and ink wash; and the figures captioned by John "Dorelia", "The Hon. Mrs Dowdall" (Mary Dowdall, 'the Rani'), "Caspar", "Susan" [i.e. Ida] holding "Robin", "Me" and "Tony" [i.e. David]. Robin, who is shewn as a baby in Ida's arms, was born on 23 October 1904. (For Ida's use of the name Susan, see Michael Holroyd, August John: the New Biography, 1996, p. 185.) Overleaf, on the last page, is a caricature in profile of Charles McEvoy, uttering the words "Very pleasant".

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