LAUGHING TORSO REMINISCENCES OF NINA HAMNETT With 23 Illustrations
Ray Long Rjcfoard Smith, Inc. NEW YORK . . 193 Copyright, 1932, by
m Ray Long Richard R. Smith, Inc. All rights reserved PRINTED IN
THE UNITED STATES OF AMKE1CA, BY THE NATIONAL PROCESS COMPANY,
INC., NEW YORK, N, Y. TO HAROLD NICOLSON AND TO DOUGLAS GOLDRING
WITHOUT WHOSE KINDNESS AND ENCOURAGEMENT I SHOULD NEVER HAVE
WRITTEN THIS BOOK September 1931. 6440990 CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I.
VERY EARLY DAYS I II. THE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LADIES . . 7 III. AT A
PUBLIC SCHOOL ., . IO IV. I BEGIN TO BE AN ARTIST . ., 1 6 V,
COMING OF AGE ., . . - 31 VI. LIFE 44 VII. WAR AND ART 72 VIII.
PEACE AND POVERTY . . . . 115 IX. PARIS REVISITED 120 X. THE SOUTH
OF FRANCE, . . . 138 XL BACK TO PARIS AND TO CELEBRITIES . 154 XII.
SOUTHERN FRANCE AGAIN . . . 250 XIII. PARIS . . . . . . .262 XIV.
HYERES AND NICE . . . - 2 73 XV. PARIS AND BRITTANY . . . . 279
XVI. SOUTH ONCE MORE LONDON . . . 307 INDEX 323 Vll ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE THE TORSO . Frontispiece MYSELF AT SALT ASH, 1 89 1 . .
. . 2 MYSELF AND MY BROTHER IN FANCY DRESS, TENBY, 1899 10 MYSELF
AT SEVENTEEN, 1907 . . . 1 8 MYSELF TO-DAY, 1932 . 22 RICHARD
SICKERT, R. A 37 THE FRIDAY MODELS AT WASSILIEFF S . . 50
MODIGLIANI 60 A FANCY DRESS DANCE IN THE AVENUE DE MAINE, 1914 67
W. H. DAVIES 98 EDITH SITWELL 105 Drawing in the possession of
Richard Sickert, R. A. MY CLASS AT THE WESTMINSTER INSTITUTE OH p.
11 MYSELF, 1920 133 ONE OF EDGARS MARIONETTES . . . 133 THE POLE
.... OH p. 137 AT THE DOME 172 THE ACADEMY COLOROSSI . . OH p. 183
THE PLOUGH MUSEUM STREET . OH p. 203 MADAME WALTER. DURANTY . . .
.214 PEASANTS IN A CAFE, DOUARNENEZ, 1923 . . 234 NOW THAT I AM SO
MUCH OLDER I THINKPERHAPS I AM BETTER OFF AS I AM 1932 266 LYTTON
STRACHEY 305 Drawing in the possession of Philip Gosse PORTRAIT On
p. 321 IX LAUGHING TORSO CHAPTER I VERY EARLY DAYS ONE morning
towards the end of the year 18893 a lady who lived in a terrace of
houses on the top of a high rock surrounded by battlements
descended into the kitchen to order the food for the day. She was
in a few months time to have a child. She was suddenly seized with
a strong feeling that she must come upstairs, cross the garden and
look down on the seashore. The impulse became so strong that she
went upstairs, crossed the garden and looked over the battlements.
Standing on the shore far below was a man with dark hypnotic eyes.
This man, , whenever he saw her, stared at her in a way that
frightened her he had lived a long time in the East. The child she
was about to bear was myself. I have often wondered if that man
hypnotized her in any way that may afterwards have affected me or
induced me to start on a career that was so different from that of
my family or my upbringing. On February the fourteenth, 1890, I was
born. Everybody was furious, especially my Father, who still is. As
soon as I became conscious of anything I was furious too, at having
been born a girl I have since discovered that it has certain
advantages. My first recollection of anything is walking
downstairs, step by step, to join a little boy who was standing at
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