I recall that many years ago I attended a suitably shambolic 'conversation' between Marianne Faithfull and Henrietta Moraes at the ICA in London. I knew of the latter because of my enthusiasm for the Soho and Fitzrovia milieu captured in the writings of Julian MacLaren Ross and Dan Farson (particularly Soho in the Fifties) - I was surprised that she was still alive - ditto MF. The only anecdote I now remember is one of them - I can't remember who - going on holiday and finding on arrival, in some far-flung country, that she had only packed seashells in her luggage, owing to the fact that she was tripping at the time.
Darren Coffield, the great contemporary chronicler of Soho/Fitzrovia (particularly the Colony Room) has written a biography of Henrietta Moraes, who modelled for Bacon and Freud, which he will be discussing at the West End Arts Library on Friday 19 June 6.30 to 7.30.
FREE talk can be booked to avoid disappointment through Eventbrite (NB this has the former name Westminster Reference Library, the same place) HERE
I'll be introducing.
