Rawsthorne's two years with Epstein and their mutual enthusiasm for Rodin developed her ideas about vitalism and movement, but she never became part of British Neo-Romanticism. In Paris, she continued her studies of the nude at the liberal Académie de la Grande Chaumière. She associated with Giacometti, Tristan Tzara and the Surrealist circle, but was committed to a figurative form of modern art which she called 'Quintessentialism'.[5] She maintained connections to an alternative circle of representational artists including Francis Gruber and Peter Rose Pulham, as well as Balthus and Derain. Her outlook was anti-idealist, intellectual and, like Giacometti, she saw painting from the real world as a challenge that could never be fully met.[2]
Career
Rawsthorne's work was dominated by the body, primarily paintings of figures and animals. Her father supplied exotic creatures to British zoos, and, as a child, she took to drawing these and other wildlife. Later she became interested in natural history and new ideas in Anthropology, Ecology and Ethology, such as those of her friends Michel Leiris and Georges Bataille. These inform the skeletal bird, fish and bat figures of her 1949 Hanover Gallery show, the haunting ape series, and her last, large Migration pictures.[2]
Rawsthorne was at the heart of the Paris avant-garde and became involved with Alberto Giacometti.[6][7] They shared many intellectual enthusiasms and a commitment to a modern form of representational painting. Her characteristically astonished gaze and defiant stance can be seen in the new kind of etiolated figure that Giacometti developed over the next decade.[8]
During the 1940s, Rawsthorne adapted animal, archaic and pre-historic imagery into motifs of birth, sexuality and death. She did not share the fashionable interest in the formal properties of Oceanic or Archaic art. Instead, she investigated the uncanny 'presence' achieved by ancient figures, especially Egyptian sculpture. She also studied this quality in Early Renaissance paintings, and in the evidence of the body itself, X-rays, skeletons, figures and animals she found in the countryside or drew in London Zoo.[citation needed]
In the 1950s and '60s, her explorations of the embattled origins of art and life were adapted into designs for the ballet and opera, such as a MinoanTiresias created for the ballet. An opera of the same name premiered in 1951 at Covent Garden, featuring the last work of her husband Constant Lambert.[7] She continued her studies of the body, in motion this time, in the practice rooms of the Royal Ballet. Over the next twenty years, she painted images of Fonteyn, Rudolph Nureyev, Antoinette Sibley and other dancers which developed a vivacious new language of movement.[citation needed]
From the 1950s onwards, she developed a series of paintings based on the Essex countryside. Existential rather than pastoral, they responded to environmentalist publications such as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
Rawsthorne explored the ambiguities of appearance through the theme of the double – for instance, reflections, such as those seen in the practice room mirrors. During the late 1960s and '70s, the deaths of Giacometti and Rawsthorne prompted her to refine these ideas in a set of ethereal double portraits juxtaposing living, dead and sculpted likenesses.[11] These works returned to the matière relief effects of the early 1950s and exchanged ideas with Bacon and the sculptor Roy Noakes[4]. Some of these new works and a selection of her innovative dancers were presented to the public at the Marlborough Gallery [5] in 1968.[12]
The last of her series of paintings based on the Essex countryside, Migrations, embedded bird and animal motifs in timeless settings. The extraordinary brushwork and relief effects developed over a life-time of drawing in close association with sculptors, was combined with a new potency of colour and epic scale. Swathes of yellow evoke the deserts of pre-history and post-history, as well as the very immediate issue of the fields of oil seed rape that were appearing in the 1970s.[citation needed]
In later life, widely read biographies of Giacometti and Bacon brought Rawsthorne fame as a model and muse,[13] but unfortunately had the effect of obscuring her main profession.[1] By the 1980s, she was better known as a once beautiful siren, or the bon viveur that Bacon partied with and painted as 'Isabel Rawsthorne'.[14][7] Since her death, however, serious scholarship has ensued, several paintings have entered public collections[15][16] and retrospectives have been exhibited. It is believed that Rawsthorne's last work was Sparrowhawk, which was found on her easel after her death.[17]
Dancers of the Royal Ballet: An Exhibition of Drawings and Gouaches by Isabel Lambert, Mermaid Theatre, London, 1966, Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge, 1967[2]: 352
She was the mother of Epstein's son Jackie (born 1934), and briefly assumed the name "Margaret Epstein" (the name of Epstein's wife) in order to register Jackie's birth.[2]: 53
Rawsthorne's first show was a sell-out, and, by September 1934, she was living in Paris. She worked with André Derain, and lived and travelled for a time with Balthus and his wife. She was painted several times by Derain and Pablo Picasso.[7] In 1936, she married her first husband, the foreign correspondent for the Daily Express, Sefton Delmer.[18][2]: 63
The onset of World War II forced Rawsthorne to leave Paris. She relinquished at least one ticket out and did not flee until the day the Germans arrived on 14 June 1940.[citation needed]
She remained with Delmer for the first part of the war, but they later divorced in 1947.[2]: 194 She maintained indirect links with France by working in intelligence and black propaganda for the Political Warfare Executive.[19]
Around 1943, she encountered Francis Bacon within the arty set around the BBC, although they probably did not become intimate until a few years later. Rawsthorne's closest wartime friends appear to have been John Rayner (typographer, journalist and soldier (SOE), the photographer Joan Leigh Fermor (then Rayner), the Schiaparelli model Anna Phillips, and the composer Elizabeth Lutyens, but her social life encompassed many others including the poets Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas (she shared working quarters with Thomas), Ian Fleming, and old friends from Paris, Peter Rose Pulham, Peter Watson (editor of the journal Horizon) and the spy Donald Maclean.[20]
Returning to Paris in 1945, Rawsthorne was re-united with Giacometti and lived with him for a short while, but they never married.[21][22] She continued to be involved in the evolution of the figurative style associated with Existentialism. She socialised with Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Wahl and other intellectuals, and for a time lived a few doors away from the headquarters of the journal Les Temps Modernes. She also entertained the philosopher A. J. Ayer in Paris, saw Eduardo Paolozzi and Bacon, and had relationships with Georges Bataille and the composer René Leibowitz. In the winter of 1946/47 she withdrew to modest lodgings in the Indre to work alone. The composer Constant Lambert visited her in 1947 and they married later that year.[9][2]: 202
Lambert died in 1951[2]: 286 and Rawsthorne returned to Paris to paint. She continued to see Giacometti, but eventually married Alan Rawsthorne in 1951.[2]: 297 They moved to a thatched cottage in rural Essex with a purpose built studio, near friends such as the politician Tom Driberg, poet Randall Swingler, artists Michael Ayrton and Biddy and Roy Noakes; Bacon had a house not far away. Six of Bacon's portraits of Rawsthorne were shown in his 1967 show, including Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne.[24] In all, between 1964 and 1970 he painted 14 images of her, including five triptychs. Giacometti died in 1966, Alan Rawsthorne in 1971, and Isabel Rawsthorne in 1992; Bacon outlived her by a few months.[2]: 286, 338 Apart from visits to London and Paris, Africa, Greece and Australia, and a short period in Cambridge (1972-3), she lived in the cottage for forty years - half of her life. She raised geese, a nod to her interest in Konrad Lorenz, and became involved in the emergent environmentalist movement. She and her last husband are buried in Thaxted churchyard.[25]
Further reading
P Rose Pulham, 'Isabel Lambert' Isabel Lambert, catalogue, London: Hanover Gallery, 1949
J Lord 'Sudbury Cottage', A Gift for Admiration, Further Memoirs, Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1998
V Wiesinger, Alberto Giacometti, Isabel Nicholas, Correspondences, Paris: FAAG, 2007
V Wiesinger and M Harrison, Isabel and Other Intimate Strangers, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2008
Carol Jacobi, 'Muse and Maker: Isabel Lambert and Alberto Giacometti' Alberto Giacometti "Die Frau auf dem Wagen" Triumph und Tod, catalogue ed. Veronique Wiesinger and Gottlieb Leinz, Duisburg Museum, Germany, Jan 2010
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