NASH (John, 1893-1977, R.A., Painter, War Artist, Illustrator and Engraver)

Autograph Letter Signed to Anthony BERTRAM (1897-1978, writer on Art and Travel, biographer, 1955, of John Nash's brother Paul, 1889-1946), saying he can only think "that this was the year in which Father first let Wood Lane House", near Iver in Buckinghamshire, "to Mrs Newman & that he & Paul or Paul only went into rooms at the address you give. I can only remember living in rooms myself with both of them in Slough during one of these 'lets' ... I went to St James Square to see the photographs which I thought very good ...", 2 sides 8vo, Bottengoms Farm, Wormingford, Essex, 26th November no year but neat filing holes touching one letter

Anthony Bertram was in the Infantry in WW1 and in MI6 during WW2. As early as 1923 he had written a short life of Paul for the series 'Contemporary British Artists' and was now starting a full length biography. He and his wife Barbara, 1906-2004 [not John's sister], married in 1929, and leased Bignor Manor, near Petworth. There in WW2 Barbara was housemother to resistance fighters on their way back to France.
Paul photographed objects whose surreal appearance stirred his imagination.

Item Date:  1951

Stock No:  54305      £70

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