During their time in Paris, Anna met Amedeo Modigliani
, the then little-known artist who did a few drawings of her.
Haight, Amanda. Anna Akhmatova : A Poetic Pilgrimage. Oxford University Press, 1976.
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Akhmatova, Anna. The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova. Editor Reeder, Roberta, Translator Hemschemeyer Judith, Zephyr Press, 1990, 2 vols.
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Friends, Associates
Nina Hamnett
On her first night in Paris NH
met the artist Modigliani
at a popular hole-in-the-wall restaurant. She was eating alone when a good-looking man, wearing a corduroy suit and black hat, entered the restaurant and...
Occupation
Nina Hamnett
She also did modelling for other artists (either professionally or for friends), and once danced naked for a crowd at Wassilief's academy (including Zadkine
and Modigliani
) to Claude Debussy
's Golliwog's Cakewalk. NH
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Nina Hamnett
This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH
is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations...
