ANNIGONI
A
SELF PORTRAIT.
Page
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1956.
ANNIGONI, PAINTER OF THE QUEEN
What Churchill
told
me..... YOU'RE FAR TOO
PAINSTAKING FOR ME
1 CAN NEVER RESIST
THE TEMPTATION TO
SLAP THE PAINT ON
CONTINUING the memoirs of Annigoni, who found international fame with his painting of the Queen-but whose world has for years been a fresco filled with the famous and beautiful of the land....Years that began when he left Italy for the art galleries of Bond Street.
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Study these two portraits by An- nigoni. They show in 11 ro- markable way the development of his style. Top: Mrs Charles Wolfson, with a distinctly Rem- brandt flavour. Annigoni's fee for this commis- alon WHA £700. Below: The Duchess of De- vonshire. This later portrait foreshadowed the style that WILK to rench full power in his portrait of the Queen. The same porcelain like complexion. The Ame highly- stylised natural background. The same richness in
folds the
of
fabric. His fee
for this portrait
800 guineas.
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THE STORY IS TOLD BY DAVID MORGAN, ANNICONI'S PERSONAL FRIEND.
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It was not for a year sort J that the landlord discovered painter of our lime
Invitation Were Annigoni Now 15" Wes! k~ the subterfuge.
think ol he coute KYTI NAHIC He reveived a numbri left at the end of the week! man må
regardless of whichen Tony were issions and in 1951 he if anised in Lequion on
Juryet or Lotential best his ไม่ after
WHN determined cold windy day in Marrh, und executesy
Lord
Moan, Angon for Huee months
bawk portrail: of be
the public interest private physician to Sir Winston plure Chorebli am a former pres1- Royal College of dent of the Physiclans.
ANNIGONI ing gallery IETRO
came to Lomion for The same The firul time in 1949 with
bu! drawings,
ed his drawing to every lead-
Street Bond in dealers who today
2,000 101119 #uch i5 SOUW of his paintings re- nothing used to purcha
one of s falder full of works when he was unknown. At be en of three months The
Tired Gulbed for failure
Ju he returned and dewelos
thut Florence forgatting
Florence, after the war, was not the same city that he had loved and which had inspred him for so long,
He determined that workl
try 10 conquer larger Leki, and his devision
Plarence leaves
to
WHN
probably influenced by the
loss of his studio.
11 landlord gave nigon notice Int
bad banned sell-portrait to
the royal Academs As fur us he was concerned the adventure
WAN DW*
His endless
trouble...
An. Hyest only
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Chas
the
He was present at the diner
July
portrait when was formally unveiled by the After Churchill
Churchill button-
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Mr
Mr
In the window?
holed Annigoni und took him TE
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closer In pertion of He stened m-
off for The portrait tently while Atuigond desetih. ! the details of his technique-- bow he made his own plus, hr what endless trouble and took to get the effect at which he was aiming.
At the oxi imented
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Never
Arst determinacion
hi
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SUNLIGHT
FLASH
a
Kodak
for the Best time, his into the window all day, and
Более to he
of the ridiculous metimes police had
her triumpheri called to move them on.
painted he said. The During one of the few quiet from memory,”
her tepicted after tran Isa the periode
early noon after the exhibition had gnurled and twisted tree with-
Princias
out a single leaf on its boughs cm for a week. been
grel, et cupanted only by while, hovering at the top, were Ar lady-in-waiting, came into three black crown.
She WHY so amuser that it Gallery the
Armigoni bis triend and bas hung in the hall of her unut away stud.nt. Tim Whidborne, showed Linton at ever since.
(COPYRIGHT) her round.
obstacle
to have
Laurie
Age
the window 11 We never have nude figures in nur windows," he was toll, and after a long battle in which ne 10 take a31 hils threatened pletres away, Annigoni finally mi telenter
of humou His topish se however, got the better of him.
Too painstaking for in place of the made figure he the put one of h. Jarge allegorical
enlilled: "Say CHIVASES
you,
I can never resist tiplation to stop the palmi The brighter the better,"
(1110 winck 1:1 Percher when Telegram aid he need arging him to return to
immediately its his In the abi world Annigen could continue to paint there London
only been
He was given a success 38.6 until tenants were found.
averpled fart had been hailed exhibition at Wildenstein's 14 out tanding and another of his drawings- to hond u in the exhibition.
at Agw, with re tall autuned to Jim as how in July of all the draw-
tweideth-century Rem- angs he did In Spain last year
1953 Wildenstein's gave tu Alfred alet
and for larger
de Antigon set about it with
So Anigom painted on the ceilings large cracks and water stains which were so realistic that one prospective the tenant after convinced fire place was un- inhabitable.
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Sir Mumping 414-71 president She Boyd Aendemy, he found ambiants
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They toured the exhibition and Whid- But a 110112
"I was Dorne said afterwaris: astounded
her only by andhrstanding of painting but also by per intimate knowledg or Annigmi's work. Every now and again she would notice a This Man?"
painting she had seen before, "Oh, there is The painting showed Annigon Oher she said:
of Mrs Coristle- putting the question to one of de picture
my sister told me tudents standing skitening Midler Auche Mode while on < much about,'" a
front of #11 ut By now Annigoni had made iesile in which he
several
431 frienda was pointing was d
London 1w I; ཨོྃ¢s{ broken ay gure
The Galleries objectva again, London'a Trap Tashari models. but la
Campbell-Waller me Anagoma netused Fiona
The painting had always admired her beauty give stopped
Landun frame. and utter sit he would paint crowds six and saven deep gazed her portrait.
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WILL RUSSIA'S NEW LOOK POLICY
K
LEAD
RUSCHEV'S
26,000-word denun ciation of Stalin was
teresting political
ever made.
TO PEACE AND FREEDOM?
By CHRISTOPHER MAYHEW, M.P.
admite, as
50
+1
140
mumst millennium has mrveil further into the future.
241 a-
This, bv.usly, couraging development from the here are some impressive facts
point of view of reducing world on the other side too.
There has undoubtedly been u
tension. Thought Russia is a dictatorship, This is not je say vast
in improvement
the
that the Soviet leaders Ấy_not Iussians' methods of soeking
to liberalise world power.
As Korea, Berlin genuinely trying
On the contrary, and Cz:chosovakla showed their rogime.
use force they obviously are. Stalin was willing to
surely the most in- or long will it be before Kru- Stalin's tymny was possible. To
speech schev
logically he prevent tyranny in future a few inust, that the West was per good resolutions about "collec- reetly right to buld up NATO tive decistons" appear to be re-
garded as suficient. against Stalin? Some of history's famous
But if the change in Russia is
So if Soviet dictatorship is speeches have been longer merely superficial or temporary (Mustapha Kemal, erst- then the West
peace and freedom, us stick danger must
and Kruschev's speech so dramatically and risk wer literally guns; while Dictator of Turkey, to :{v
confinns, the West is certainly metaphorically once spoke for a week on
us look at some of the Bol "out of the wood" yet.
3
end), and many have been evidence both ways, beginning 2 The Soviet bonders, mere-
more elegantly phrased and with the discouraging side. more truthful. But none
surely has presented
1. There is still no freedom of whatever in the Soviet Union,
BO As the dust of Stalin's debunk-
much fascinating informa- ing settles, the fimillar out- tion, or been delivered in lines
Soviet dietatorship such dramatic circum- emerge unchanged.
stances
In on sense, of course, we knew It all before
aloud by u
the
There is
NOBODY DARES
Jar
over, are still thinking in tons
continuing struggle
the Communist power between and non-Communist worlds.
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The present Soviet nkers claim they aren", Their destre for peace is obviously genuine. By events in Austria, Yugoslavia,
over disarmament
and in other
holds they have made a practi- cal and useful contribution to relaxing world tension.
A RETREAT
The new Foreign Secretary. welcome Shepilov, though change from Molotov, was still speaking in this fashion at the Twenucth Congress "The whole course of historical development their relations
and
of
NOT VERY DEEP
the
have
Constitutional reforms been introduced which curb, on paper, the powers of the secret police. Jamming of BBC broad- casts to fuss has been slapped.
cach Soviet citizens
now listen
freely
גד!
to two hours of archs- mission from London every day.
Moreover, the Russians are making genuino cfforts to fraternise
Western coun- tries. They are raising the Iron Curtain further every day, and East-West con- permitting new tacts in all directions, and not merely through Communist and tellow-travelling agencies, ·
LOOKS LASTING
90
with non- Communist countries, more- hardly a paragraph which could IT is true that the error has has indisputably confirmed the
the over, they have abandoned many of not have beIN (and probably
gone for the moment and great Lenin's thesis that writen was)
ago by power is shared to some extent prevent epochi is the tpoch of the of their objectionable methods yours
the past. The liquidation of the collapse Koortier, Orwell and Kravchen at the top; but
the essential decay
In itself, symbolises a retreat ko. But even these authors, for political conditions which pro- Capitalist system and the setting Cominform, though unimportant
up of a rapidly flourishing eri all their
from the old habits of interven- Insight Into Com-duced Stɗkin are unchanged. for the Socialist system."
tion in the internal affairs of munisin, could scarcely have ex-
Soviet The wretched
Com- Noon.
THE trouble seems to be not co k "Darkasa
foreign countries. pected
which for thirty "Animal Farm" and "I Chose munist Party,
much that the Soviet leadera sustained, justified oni
Today, the Russians deal in- want to be dictatora as that they Freedom" to be, in effect, read years
Stalin's cyranny,
creasingly, от в correct and are imprisoned In their u Soviet leader from extended
herds of "Marxist-Leninist" tramework Tostrum
of the Twentieth emerges not, merely unchanged
by the slightest SOVIET icadors I have met re friendly basis, with Congress of the Soviet Com- but untouched
cently still plainly take it for governments of foreign countries of thought, that they simply munist
granted that the world will in Nehru Nasser, Eden, Mollet, cannot grasp what freedom is. Purly, for
the instruc. breath of criticism. tion of the thunderstruck dele-
Nobody dares to oppose the due course go Communist, with Elsenhower.
People argue that while the gates,
Communist leaders.. Their do- the help and guidance of the
In general they are less un- ullimale objective of the Soviet cisions and pronouncements are Soviet Union,
enthusiastic than they were on loadors remains the same, in line
this, the building up their contacts with changes in their methods are of opplauded with the same un- critical unanimity that Stalin's
Soylet looders are continuing Communist fellow travellers in ittle importance. But this Burcly used to be. Their language and their drive for world power, non-Commulet countries.
is wrong. so more Not only the methods but the READING the speech ono in fundamental thinking is basically albeit in a gotior
by themselves, maten ob- evitably asks; "From now unchanged civilised manner poolally in tempo" of the drive for world
are comparatively harm- the Middle East ón, are we dealing with totally! They use the samo Marxist and
and in the Communism, have changed for less things. What matters: Dis different Russlana?". This is the Leninist Incantations to de colonial countrica. They still the better, In Stalin's day the whether they are pursued in
of B great question of the moment.
united. Com- "ways which, throaters peace and nounce Stalin and Boris ae these regard economic, and
appeared to. Everyone agroes, of course, victims. They tried and executed West an Kind of
From this that Russia has changed-but by Berlin secret, in the con- presenting them with a stem take place within quile à Zow choy and Shepltov, though not how much und sor how long? Hventional Stalinist way
duży which
should the change is deep and Thating, It would be folly for the West to
..
·· GREAT ·· QUESTION
with
tyrants used to denounce their civalry with the Cap Ramions or something that miehet Ardodomas pinolat of view Krus
flaw of
not be evsdeck."yes Above all, the Soviet badeniz? Coteldorationis - liika)
BAR TAPON Retreat blåmežus, are a vast improve
the Russians plainly men! on Stalin and Molotov. This us to ranla
the big`change in the Soviet pesalst in polleles designed to make no attempt to omamine ob- testhat changes in Burda do Communist for decades at least. Union, and it in one which looks pop with Stalina Incidentally, Jectively : just how and why, pot really go very deeg. But In Soviet – Chinking, the Come, like flaring s), long time,
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