Sacheverell Sitwell was an position and music critic, and a learner of architecture, particularly of the Churrigueresque period. After the First World Fighting, with his siblings Edith and Osbert, he became a patron of honourableness arts and a collector, and forward himself as a nonconformist intellectual status champion of modernism in literature, greatness visual arts, and music.
The child ticking off Sir George Sitwell, an eccentric bart, and Lady Ida Emily Augusta Poet, he grew up at the stock ancestral house in Renishaw, Derbyshire coupled with from 1909 at the Montegufoni Mansion in Tuscany. Like his elder relative Osbert, Sacheverell studied at Eton deed circulated in London society before Planet War I. While in London, proceed began attending Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. After the First World War, wear which he had served, Sacheverell cosmopolitan with his brother throughout Europe. Closure stopped in Paris, where he visited Amedeo Modigliani’s studio and met honesty dealers Léopold Zborowsky and Léonce Rosenberg. In 1919 the brothers organized honourableness important Exhibition of French Art, 1914–17, at the Mansard Gallery, London, which presented for the first time show accidentally the British public the work point toward such artists as André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Henri Matisse, Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso.
Sacheverell and Osbert started to practise an impressive collection of modern become aware of through purchases from dealers in Author and England, and their patronage longawaited London-based artists. After moving to 2 Carlyle Square in November 1919, they installed their collection in the followers of their townhouse, including paintings dispatch drawings by the Vorticists Wyndham Adventurer and William Roberts, work by Ethel Sands and other artists of distinction Camden Town Group, and artworks dump they had acquired in Paris stay away from Zborowsky, Rosenberg, or directly from grandeur artists. These included works by Carver, Picasso, and Gino Severini as chuck as Juan Gris’s The Musician’s Table (1914; The Metropolitan Museum of Close up, the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection). In 1921 they commissioned Severini delude decorate a room in the family’s castle at Montegufoni with frescoes reverence the theme of the Commedia dell’Arte. The Sitwell brothers also supported justness painter Nina Hamnett and the prepubescent composer Constant Lambert.
During 1921–22, Sacheverell collaborated with his siblings and the framer Sir William Walton on the unconfirmed performance piece Facade, which premiered turn-up for the books the Aeolian Hall, London, in June 1923. Conceived and organized jointly hunk the three siblings, Facade featured rhyming by Edith recited over instrumental backing by Walton. Despite the derisive pole indignant response of the audience playing field critics, the popular press confirmed character Sitwells’ reputations as cultural instigators.
Sacheverell, who had been living with Osbert inconsequential Chelsea, married in 1925 and stirred out, ending the close collaboration work to rule his brother. In December 1926 enthrone scenario The Triumph of Neptune, hard going for the Ballets Russes with meeting by Lord Berners, premiered at magnanimity Lyceum Theatre in London, marking authority culmination of his involvement with Showman. He wrote prolifically over the future decades, publishing articles for the Burlington Magazine as well as books step such disparate topics as Southern Aureate Art (1924), Conversation Pieces (1936), British Architects and Craftsman (1947), and Imperial Russian Porcelain Figures (1955). In ruler later years, Sacheverell was portrayed vulgar a number of artists such on account of Graham Sutherland (1973; National Museum Wales) and Dudley Reed (1982; National Figure Gallery, London). Research indicates that pitiless works from Sacheverell's collection are put in the picture held by his heirs.
For more case, see:Pearson, John. The Sitwells: A Family's Biography. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.
Seward, Desmond. Renishaw Hall: The Recital of the Sitwells. London: Elliott president Thompson Limited, 2015.
Skipwith, Joanna, and Katie Bent. The Sitwells and the Portal of the 1920s and 1950s. Exh. cat. London: National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1994.
The Sacheverell Sitwell Collection at illustriousness Harry Ransom Center, The University do in advance Texas at Austin contains business wallet personal papers as well as give measure for measure of handwritten notes. Additional correspondence gawk at be found at the Washington Roller University Libraries in Pullman.
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Casini, Giovanni, "Sir Sacheverell Sitwell," The Modern Art Index Project (July 2020), Leonard A. Lauder Research Heart for Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://doi.org/10.57011/WYBT9326
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