Among the Bohemians (53 page)

Leon Bakst designed the costumes for Diaghilev’s ballet
Le Dieu Bleu
, 1912.
The leading role was danced by Vaslav Nijinsky.

The cast of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
, Charleston, 1925.

Both the photographs on this page appeared as illustrations to
The New Interior Decoration
, by Dorothy Todd and Raymond Mortimer, 1929.
Boris Anrep incorporated a
trompe I’oeil
head of Lytton Strachey into the mosaic decorations of his patrons’ hallway.

A characteristic mural scheme for a London flat by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.

The fame of the Chelsea Arts Ball spread abroad; here, in the Swedish
Allerj Family Journal
, illustrated by Fortunio Matania, 1926.

Brett and Carrington celebrate their new-found androgyny in ‘
les pantalons d’ouvriers’
.

‘Study of a Gypsy’ by Jocob Kramer, 1916.

The Kalderasà invade Britain, 1911.

“The Slade cropheads’ – Carrington, Barbara Bagenal and Brett,
c
.
1911.

Dorothy Brett caricatured herself and fellow Bohemians,
from left
to right: Brett, Barbara, Augustus John, the Strachey brothers, Enid Bangnold and, reclining in the background, Mark Gerrler.

Roger Fry’s image of ‘Nina Hamnett with a Guitar’, 1917–18, looks as if it could equally have been painted in 1968.

Jacob Epstein’s ‘court’ rivalled Augustus John’s in pre-First World War London.

Augustus John’s portrait of Viva King, 1922: ‘I was known as “The Scarlet Woman”, or sometimes “The Queen of Bohemia”.’