Eileen Gray. Jennifer Goff
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73TCD Archive, Paul Henry Papers – 7432/71-109,letter from Stephen Haweis to Paul Henry, 4 March 1952.
74Ibid, Scott, p.26.
75Ibid, Scott, p.25.
76Ibid, Scott, p.36.
77Ibid, Adam, p.21.
78Adam, Peter, Eileen Gray: Architect/Designer: A Biography, London, Thames and Hudson, 1987, p.34.
79Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Stephen Haweis Papers, Arranged Miscellaneous Memoirs, Box 2, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 5 June 1958.
80Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Stephen Haweis Papers, Box 1 catalogued correspondence, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 5 July 1958.
81NMIEG 2003.52,Scott, Kathleen, Self Portrait of an Artist, London, John Murray Editions, 1949.
82Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Stephen Haweis Papers, Arranged Miscellaneous Memoirs, Box 2, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 27 November 1961, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 14 February 1963, and letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 17 October 1965.
83Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Stephen Haweis Papers, Arranged Miscellaneous Memoirs, Box 2, letter from Gerald Kelly to Mrs Philip J. Roosevelt, 8 April 1969.
84Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Stephen Haweis papers, Box 1, catalogued correspondence, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 27 November 1961.
85Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Stephen Haweis papers, Box 1 catalogued correspondence, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 14 February 1963.
86TCD Archives, Paul Henry Papers – 7432.102a,letter from Stephen Haweis to Paul Henry, 2 March 1953.
87Adam, Peter, Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work, London, Thames and Hudson, 2009, p.25.
88TCD Archives, Paul Henry Papers – 7432/71-109, letter from Stephen Haweis to Paul Henry, 21 November 1951. Ladbroke Black (1877-1940), a journalist, who was on a brief trip to Paris in autumn 1899. Haweis had introduced him to Henry and Black had been at Cambridge with Crowley, Kelly and Haweis. TCD Archives, Paul Henry Papers – 7432/71-109, letter from Stephen Haweis to Paul Henry, 4 March 1952.
89TCD Archives, Paul Henry Papers – 7432/71-109, letter from Stephen Haweis to Paul Henry, 15 June 1952.
90Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Stephen Haweis Papers, Arranged Miscellaneous Memoirs, Box 2, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 20 November 1967.
91Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Stephen Haweis Papers, Arranged Miscellaneous Memoirs, Box 2, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 12 February 1968.
92TCD Archives, Paul Henry Papers – 7432/71-109, letter from Stephen Haweis to Paul Henry, 19 June 1952.
93TCD Archives, Paul Henry Papers – 7432/71-109, letter from Stephen Haweis to Paul Henry, 21 November 1951.
94TCD Archives, Paul Henry Papers – 7432/71-10, letter from Stephen Haweis to Paul Henry, 23 December 1952.
95Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Stephen Haweis Papers, Arranged Miscellaneous Memoirs, Box 2, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 30 March 1962, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, Monday 17 December possibly 1962, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 14 February 1963, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 17 October 1965, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 1 November 1966, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 8 August 1968.
96Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Stephen Haweis papers, Arranged Miscellaneous Memoirs, Box 1 catalogued correspondence, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, 17 December year unknown, and letter dated 30 March 1962.
97Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Stephen Haweis papers, Arranged Miscellaneous Memoirs, Box 1 catalogued correspondence, letter from Eileen Gray to Stephen Haweis, Sunday 1 November year unknown.
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The Artist: Painting, Sculpture, Photography
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, Paris was the artistic centre of the avant-garde. Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism,the Russian avant-garde, De Stijl and Surrealism coupled with a rejection of academic tradition made artists and designers question traditional picture-making and sculpture techniques through other media. Gray’s art student years at the Slade, the École Colarossi and then at the Académie Julien were pivotal to so many aspects of her future work – especially her lacquer work and her carpet designs. Both mediums continued to demonstrate her painterly skills. It was during these formative years that Gray met many of her artistic circles; artists, writers, sculptors, photographers, theorists and philosophers, who would have such a profound influence on her developing ideas.
3.1 Drawing of a nude study, 1903, paper, pencil, charcoal © NMI
Gray regrettably destroyed most of her artwork during her student period, with the exception of a very competent figurative study which dates approximately to 1903. This sketch shows the muscles, ligaments, a rib cage, body organs and a right-side profile of a woman.1 Her talent as an artist was apparent after