Roger Fry: A BiographyVirginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and one of the most renowned art critics of this century, who helped to bring the Postimpressionist movement from France to England and America. Index; illustrations. |
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Page 89
... lecturing has caught on " . He was even complaining that though his lectures cost him very little trouble compared with his painting , they were much more successful . Lecturing was at any rate preferable to writing , and more congenial ...
... lecturing has caught on " . He was even complaining that though his lectures cost him very little trouble compared with his painting , they were much more successful . Lecturing was at any rate preferable to writing , and more congenial ...
Page 117
... lecturer . He was lecturing not only in the provinces but at Leighton House and the Albert Hall ; at Cambridge he delivered a course of lectures on Venetian painting a syllabus of which remains . But a home of his own meant as usual ...
... lecturer . He was lecturing not only in the provinces but at Leighton House and the Albert Hall ; at Cambridge he delivered a course of lectures on Venetian painting a syllabus of which remains . But a home of his own meant as usual ...
Page 263
... lecturer , after looking long through his spectacles , came to a pause . He was pointing to a late work by Cézanne ... lectures surprised him . Perhaps he had misjudged the British public . Perhaps in its queer way the public had more ...
... lecturer , after looking long through his spectacles , came to a pause . He was pointing to a late work by Cézanne ... lectures surprised him . Perhaps he had misjudged the British public . Perhaps in its queer way the public had more ...
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