Virginia Woolf, Walter Sickert: A Conversation, The Hogarth Press, 1934. Cover by Vanessa Bell. Barnett Freedman's copy.
Barnett Freedman's copy. Signed by him. Inscribed twice: “To Barnett from Joan & Geoff with all best wishes Christmas 1934” and secondly “and then for Felicity from B.” The identities of Felicity, Joan or Geoff are yet to be determined (Joan is possibly the British illustrator Joan Hassall?), but the Barnett to whom this book was gifted in 1934, is almost certainly Barnett Freedman. The handwriting identifies it as him - the B is identical to other known examples.
Woolf's essay was published in 1934 in response to the 1933 Sickert retrospective at Agnews. Her text is structured around a dinner party conversation which extends from complaints about London traffic (in 1934!) to the eyes of South American insects, and finally to Sickert's paintings:
"I became completely and solely an insect — all eye. I flew from colour to colour, from red to blue, from yellow to green. Colours went spirally through my body lighting a flare as if a rocket fell through the night and lit up greens and browns, grass and trees, and there in the grass a white bird. Colour warmed, thrilled, chafed, burnt, soothed, fed and finally exhausted me."
Title: Walter Sickert: A Conversation
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: The Hogarth Press
Publication date: 1934
Designer: Cover design by Vanessa Bell
Condition: Very good
Stock Number: RB03933
Barnett Freedman's copy. Signed by him. Inscribed twice: “To Barnett from Joan & Geoff with all best wishes Christmas 1934” and secondly “and then for Felicity from B.” The identities of Felicity, Joan or Geoff are yet to be determined (Joan is possibly the British illustrator Joan Hassall?), but the Barnett to whom this book was gifted in 1934, is almost certainly Barnett Freedman. The handwriting identifies it as him - the B is identical to other known examples.
Woolf's essay was published in 1934 in response to the 1933 Sickert retrospective at Agnews. Her text is structured around a dinner party conversation which extends from complaints about London traffic (in 1934!) to the eyes of South American insects, and finally to Sickert's paintings:
"I became completely and solely an insect — all eye. I flew from colour to colour, from red to blue, from yellow to green. Colours went spirally through my body lighting a flare as if a rocket fell through the night and lit up greens and browns, grass and trees, and there in the grass a white bird. Colour warmed, thrilled, chafed, burnt, soothed, fed and finally exhausted me."
Title: Walter Sickert: A Conversation
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: The Hogarth Press
Publication date: 1934
Designer: Cover design by Vanessa Bell
Condition: Very good
Stock Number: RB03933
Barnett Freedman's copy. Signed by him. Inscribed twice: “To Barnett from Joan & Geoff with all best wishes Christmas 1934” and secondly “and then for Felicity from B.” The identities of Felicity, Joan or Geoff are yet to be determined (Joan is possibly the British illustrator Joan Hassall?), but the Barnett to whom this book was gifted in 1934, is almost certainly Barnett Freedman. The handwriting identifies it as him - the B is identical to other known examples.
Woolf's essay was published in 1934 in response to the 1933 Sickert retrospective at Agnews. Her text is structured around a dinner party conversation which extends from complaints about London traffic (in 1934!) to the eyes of South American insects, and finally to Sickert's paintings:
"I became completely and solely an insect — all eye. I flew from colour to colour, from red to blue, from yellow to green. Colours went spirally through my body lighting a flare as if a rocket fell through the night and lit up greens and browns, grass and trees, and there in the grass a white bird. Colour warmed, thrilled, chafed, burnt, soothed, fed and finally exhausted me."
Title: Walter Sickert: A Conversation
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: The Hogarth Press
Publication date: 1934
Designer: Cover design by Vanessa Bell
Condition: Very good
Stock Number: RB03933
