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THIS IS a remarkable event to be found visiting three lesser-identified provincial craft venues
in southern The united kingdom. One of the locations, Falmouth completely makes sense, in
this many of the paintings by Cedric Christopher and Morris ("Kit") Hardwood gathered in this
article relate to periods spent in St. Ives and across Cornwall, and they attribute the usual
subjects: fishermen, town life, outlying scenes, and tin miners. But other paintings describe a
very various pair of trajectories, which both for artists encompassed scenes from
London,Brittany and Paris, and Suffolk.

As the Cornish canvases hint only very ultimately at the sex proclivities of the two close
friends and musicians, a collection of portraits that starts up the show more specifically
introduces the interwar Parisian demimonde. Here is lesbian novelist Mary Butts, painted by
Morris in 1924--fire-haired, pale, pensive, caught maybe between indulgences. (Butts, the
quintessential '20s decadent, lovedopium and heroin, and cocaine. She befriended Jean
Cocteau, who also painted her and highlighted several of her books.)Right here and also,
best braided fishing line is Morris' portrait of the youthful Rupert Doone from 1923, who
danced for Cocteau and became his lover. Doone was also the very last premier danseur
engaged by Serge Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes and went on to produce the Group
Theatre in the 1930s, which staged Auden and Isherwood's remarkable collaborations.

And here is Christopher Wood's artwork of composer Constant Lambert in 1926. At only 20
or so, Lambert was commissioned by Diaghilev to write down the musical score for the ballet
Romeo and Juliet. Wood him self worked on the scenery just for this work, without having
formally possessing secured a commission. According to Timber, confusion surrounds the
arguments with Diaghilev, who "knows absolutely nothing about artwork,". "He pokes his
nose in and makes the most worthless and silly changes." Wood was either sacked or
reconciled, to be changed by the surrealist Max Ernst.

Paradoxically,. no portrait of Cocteau themselves is present, however his impact haunts the
entire show, because his release of Timber to the delights of opium indirectly helped bring
about the artist's death at the age of 29. Wood's habit led to instability--he even began
transporting a revolver around in the uk. After checking out his mom and sibling in Salisbury,
Hardwood impulsively jumped under a teach, though his death was officially documented as
an accident. From his discovery through the more recognized artist Augustus John within the
fashionable Cafe Royal, by means of his firmly Picasso-inspired phase, Wood was, in truth,
only able to motion at his potential. Nevertheless, despite his brief life, his brand is better
known today compared to Morris. Wooden has been the main topic of a biography by
Richard Ingleby (1995), and also stats as one of three artists to die youthful in Sebastian
Faulks' several biography The Fatal Englishman: Three Simple Lives (1996).

His beauty must have really helped. A amazing canvas here by Moths is called The Dancing
Sailor (1925). Prior to a background of sails was indeed a Breton sailor, most likely the young
guy depicted cavorting among cows. But he could also have been a portrait, or part portrait,
of his close friend Kit. Wood's own work with show at his most homoerotic is undoubtedly
Exercises (1925), in which a dozens naked' youths swim, wrestle, stretch, and disport
themselves on trapezes. A clothed instructor massages a gymnast's leg muscle tissue. In the
foreground, two monocled, velvet-suited cesthetes--clearly not in the room for physical effort-
-chat and drink.

Morris' daily life narrative contrasted absolutely using that of the bisexual, restless Hardwood.
Morris fell in love with yet another painter, Arthur Lett-Haines. The pair shifted around, from
Newlyn in Cornwall, to Paris, then London, and filially resolved on a farm in Suffolk, where
they spent years in satisfied cohabitation. Lett-Haines died in 1978, Morris in 1982. Although
London's Tate Gallery hosted a retrospective a couple of years later, Morris' fame has sunk
ever since then. Not particularly original, though his primitive, submit-impressionist style
stays striking and attractive.

Wood's most recent main exhibition is in 1997, known as A Painter Between Two Cornwalls.
It was a research to the affinity between his Cornish paintings--several of that are usually on
display at the Tate's Cornish outpost, Tate Saint. Ives--and people undertaken in Cornouaille,
a remote region of Brittany. Probably the finest of his paintingsnevertheless and in this
article, normally exists in the Kettle's Yard gallery, Cambridge. Within this huge personal-
portrait from 1927 (over three feet by four toes), Wood indicated his devotion to Pablo
Picasso quite literally, by putting on a triangle-patterned jumper suggestive of the figure of
the Harlequin. He sits self-assuredly, colour pallette in hand, over a balcony, the hill of
Montmartre soaring up right behind him. Wood's penetrating azure eyes look straight out of
your canvas, asking what might have been.

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