8.
Gluck to George Yeats (copy undated, but probably 2 March 1948).
9.
Dulac to Gluck, 5 March 1948.
COSMIC INJUSTICE
1.
Wilfrid Greene to Gluck, 7 August 1949.
2.
Gluck, Notes on her mother’s illness (undated).
3.
Ibid.
4.
Dr Barnet Solomons to Louis Hallé Gluckstein, 5 May 1950.
5.
Gluck, Notes on her mother’s illness (undated).
6.
G.E. Woodroffe to Gluck, 21 April 1950.
7.
Gluck to her brother, 5 May 1950.
8.
Dr Solomons to Louis Gluckstein, 5 May 1950.
9.
Julia Samson to Gluck, 24May l950.
10.
Gluck to Pierre Jeannerat, The Daily Mail, 2 December 1942.
THE PAINT WAR
1.
Gluck, ‘The Impermanence of Paintings in Relation to Artists’ Materials’, Royal Society of Arts Lecture, 1964.
2.
Gluck, ‘The Dilemma of the Painter and Conservator in the Synthetic Age’, Museum Associations Conference, 21 July 1954.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Ibid.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Nesta Obermer to Gluck, 14 June 1954.
7.
Sir Gerald Kelly to Gluck, 30 January 1951.
8.
Christine Leback Sitwell, ‘The Dilemma of the Painter and Conservator in the Synthetic Age: the Paintings and Correspondence of the Artist, Gluck’, Grant Thornton, Brighton, 1987.
9.
Ibid.
LACUNA
1.
Conversation with Mrs Guy, 26 November 1986.
2.
Conversation with Hermia Priestley, 18 February 1987.
3.
Diary entry, 5 September 1957.
4.
Diary entries, 1955 to 1961.
5.
Diary entry, 1 August 1958.
6.
Diary entry, 26 March 1959.
7.
Diary entries, 24 and 30 March 1959.
8.
Diary entry, 25 March 1959.
9.
Diary entry, 2 April 1959.
10.
Diary entry, 19 March 1959.
11.
Sir Cyril Salmon at the Old Bailey, 15 September 1958.
12.
Diary entry, 12 August 1959.
13.
Cyril Salmon to Gluck, 28 June 1960.
14.
Diary entry, 10 June 1963.
15.
Gluck, Notes (undated).
16.
Ibid.
A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW
1.
Gluck, Notes (undated).
2.
Diary entries, August 1972.
3.
Conversation with Winifred Vye, 7 January 1987.
4.
Nesta Obermer to Gluck, 3 August 1973.
5.
Nesta Obermer to Gluck, July 1973.
6.
Ursula Robertshaw, interview with Gluck, Illustrated London News, May 1973.
7.
Diary entries, 28 May, 17 and 18 June 1970.
8.
Gluck to Nesta, 19 April 1970.
9.
Gluck to Andrew McIntosh Patrick, 24 May 1972.
10.
Lady Jean Rankin to Nesta, 7 May 1973.
11.
Prudence Maufe to Tony Carroll, 21 February 1973.
THE DYING OF THE LIGHT
1.
Diary entries, August and September 1974.
2.
Diary entry, 4 May 1975.
3.
Diary entry, 5 June 1975.
4.
Diary entry, 23 September 1975.
5.
Gluck to Nesta Obermer (undated, April 1976).
6.
Diary entry, 5 November 1976.
7.
Conversation with Julia Samson, 24 February 1947.
8.
Gluck, Notes on painting (undated).
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WORKS ILLUSTRATED
Most of Gluck’s paintings are in private collections. Dates and sizes are given where known. Measurement is in centimetres and height precedes width. Unless otherwise stated, the works are oil on canvas.
Colour plates following:
Medallion (29.2 × 34.2), 1936
The Three Nifty Nats (50.8 × 40.6), c. 1926
The Vernon Picture (22.5 × 77.4), 1937
The Path to the Lough (51 × 76.2), 1969
Black and white:
The Artist’s Grandfather (49.5 × 34.2), 1915
Portrait of Miss E. M. Craig (17.7 × 12.7), oil on board, 1920
The Jockey (18.4 × 24.1), c. 1924
They’re Off (25A × 36.1), c. 1924
Phoebus Triumphant, c. 1920
Bonfire, c. 1924
A. J. Munnings, Gluck dressed as a gypsy (33 × 41), pencil, 1916
Raindrops (34.2 × 48.8), c. 1924
Beatrice, c. 1920
Teddie Gerard, c. 1920
Girl in Green Hat, c. 1920
Flora, c.l920
Lady in a Mask, 1924
On and Off, the Duke of York’s theatre, c. 1924
The Saxophone Player, (Emmett Baker) c. 1926
The Tumbler, from the C. B. Cochran revue ‘On with the Dance’, c. 1926
Danse Eccentrique, c. 1924
George Reeves, pianist
Portrait of the Son of Sir Reginald Blomfield, R.A.
Mrs Romaine Brooks (unfinished), 1926
Romaine Brooks, Peter, a Young English Girl (91.5 × 62.3), 1926. National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution
Ernest Thesiger (33.6 × 23.4), 1925
Massine Waiting for His Cue (51 × 41), c.1926. Courtesy of the trustees of the Theatre Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum
Sir James Crichton-Browne, c. 1930
Self-portrait with Cigarette (25.4 × 20.3), 1925. Stolen, 1981
Gamine (35.5 × 30.4), oil on board, c. 1932
The Unofficial Jury (24.1 × 34.2)
Baldock versus Bell at the Albert Hall (24.1 × 19), 1927
The Old Stable, Bolton House, Hampstead (24.7 × 19.7), 1930
Miss Margaret Watts (48.2 × 58.6)
The Artist’s Mother (40.6 × 35.5), 1930 86
Lilies
Le Vert et Noir
Chromatic, 1932
Broadlands (75 × 120.7), 1932
Spiritual (39.3 × 39.3)
The Devil’s Altar (135.8 × 74.9). The Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, Brighton
Comtesse Govonne, Mariette Lydis. Destroyed by the Artist 100 Pomegranates, 1936
Oscar
Tulips (61 × 51), presented to Queen Mary by Mrs Francesca Gluckstein, 1932. Sandringham House
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