Diary extracts for April 1925
1st Apr 1925:
Back home [for Easter]. Had a head x-ray… something affecting my nose.
[Went to the Cartwright]
Turner’s ‘Deluge’ is there, but shockingly hung. Duncan Grant’s ‘Still Life’ is very fine. Some fine Constables and a glorious coast scene by old Crome. The Reynolds and Rayburns were not representative. A fine little Hogarth. G.F. Watts well represented.
2nd Apr 1925:
To see Dr Kilp about my eyes, new lenses.
10th Apr 1925:
Began carving a small wooden torso of a youth from a piece of oak that was with the firewood.
12th Apr 1925:
Worked all day at the little torso.
15th Apr 1925:
Back in London. Afternoon in Bick’s studio and worked till 6 o’ clock on the wood torso which Bick seems to think promises well.
18th Apr 1925:
In the afternoon to Bicks and worked at the little wooden statuette. Have got into a rare mess over the neck and shoulders owing to a saw cut far into the wood.
19th Apr 1925:
Began in the morning a painting 24x20 of two men.
20th Apr 1925:
Worked in life class all day. My drawing seems to have been most successful there. In fact I am told Tonks deigned to look at it.
23rd Apr 1925:
Making messes most of the day in the life class.
25th Apr 1925:
Life class in the morning. Wood carving in the afternoon The head of my work is shaping better.
27th Apr 1925:
In difficulties but hope to have done with it soon. A large ‘shake’ has come in the neck and head and a peg does not fix it quite.
29th Apr 1925:
Just about finished Torso. Started work on a new piece of oak working till 9.30pm.
30th Apr 1925:
Got to work in earnest at the painting I have in hand. There are possibilities in it.