CHARLES RICKETTS

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20412, 5 December 1931, Page 13

CHARLES RICKETTS

Ijjfß 41® HIS FRIENDS.

Sturfe Moore, in the iV «observer. )

taMr w ood-£ug ravrr ' ]ltllo ' <'i r of type, of book-bmd-'of stage scenery Geneva, ISGS; died on ( t^tß^t ' sParkagC<lSiXty " I* Neapolitan, with »»« mcfr i#* youth. (fflet Charles Bicketts in ISS7, r«« i 0 ™ .till i« mc > luconnull " k r;." ► 'tvents, *** crcated a " rt" Lfl' At last I saw him, in a l e]oud of , -T L.coiourcd hair, whu-h a h ead like a dandelion ho had just turned J had no collar, no socks, W o«f f to enable to two hundred yards from if*"* tl tbe school, When he ffrts rehearsing tho music ot g esturcs as we " 0S mode of l jrogre . s " Sm to room, till nearly 'twajrf b«l!a vea 88 little . Uke Bicketts as creature fly Shannon had been !fi J » wood-engraver at the IKS kehnieal Institute in the S «»d, but they had already from that drudearned his keep by ft croydpa Art School for « week. Bicketts re- » cheque* for £25 from iCir, and what more hey n.«B*W tbe immense co 1mJJisbidy photographs, but whn <i fiffta ep,br<M obje s :t l of , vl . rhl JpK m Obtained by doing Tb9 DWlowrMb W perpetually absorbed ihitsdr ot What he admired or aaL Jlliive sever met a more Sfetfaera »P id lllind - Li^ e * SlMfk in a crowd of W«i always producing coiiis■fiSSiw & Bt hia ext reme goniktaAt Wth that you had crossed fttHW hj« hud hurt your SM.m ojvld. And -when he )jidcod« He advanced frMifcrtwyinsr h'B Pa st - His MM,lk|rteH e-lub water-colour 55£wri up soon after it won regent boasted of il inches. Ho hirn.t contented him, never saw them, ia Paris, he walkd no French) off Id screw up cour--3 meal, He drew llow in his wake, just astern, wc various distances. I were lost sight ■is de Chavannes, tti, Watts, Flaurnhardt, Wagner, then his major imired tho best ire, We went to Kensington every art journals and mid soon the old like peaks over sr'beeame an ox-

iutarested in Gactguin, (fouino before those mm them up in this country Hatty tharo, Bpt $$ fashion ever ■pallia, He neV?? accepted or artists, movements or HPgiWtlfl.JEEia admiration was ■M|jOTre£icaJ. Nobody was ever experiwee, He fascinated ■pjgileii'the cultured began tu HffilljinMil the standard of WMpfrjose. though they were H||||py..' poor and often ■mijip&Ni meal a' week. He HHmi- any of Wilde's HHptjif. - first • class, yet . conversation and immense capacity ■Hagk*sv»l moment effective■MßhMq wade many friends, a never-aatis-BMfefeffgeetion to the end.

wlthia my obscrtheir union I proved himself the pjtsath-hour dilemmas |jjjtßitily nevor spared

artist has worked in, a rare «f n » e proportion;, while bebjnd all h 9 _ tiQns lay imagination, P* o *® o "^^.^^ tie #ymp*tl»y, »n4 the dignity o swerving Mnearity.