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Sunday jazz larinetist Wally Fawkes Waking up with Lucian’s and pianist Ron Rubin Cwill be unveiling a new jazz club on Sunday at the Mansfield Bowling Club. With a £4 door entry, a cheap club-price bar and the boots beside my bed relaxing surroundings of a classic bowling club, Jazz at the Mansfield looks set to first saw Lucian, or Smithfield was one of become a date for music lovers Lux as I knew him, in our favourites… and the – and will help raise cash for the French pub in Dean Wolseley. We also went the Dartmouth Park club, which IStreet with his friend, to Elena’s Etoile in has seen falling memberships the artist Francis Bacon. Charlotte Street. He liked and increased running costs. I was in awe. I was a Elena Salvoni. Wally, who was inspired by young art student of 18 in Lucian and I had both the New Orleans great Sidney 1961 and I was up from been to Dartington Bechet, has been playing the Corsham, Wiltshire, and School in Devon, and clarinet since the early 1940s in town to meet my lover, had both felt outsiders. and has appeared with George the painter William Fiona Green He because he loved Webb’s Dixielanders and Crozier. We met and horses more than people, Humph rey Lyttleton’s band. hurriedly left. It was only remembers her and often slept in the Ron’s roll of honour includes years later I learned that friend and lover stables, making him appearing regularly with he was afraid that Lucian smell so much that others George Melly in John Chilton’s – who was 20 years older Lucian Freud, shunned him. In fact, he Feetwarmers. than me – might see me was proud of having this Organised by jazz promoter and take me from him, who died last effect. Jim Godbolt, who wrote the in- such was Lucian’s week He had flats dotted house newspaper Jazz At Ronnie reputation. We went on across London. Once, in Scotts for three decades, the new to the Colony Room in 1975, at his flat in session offers the chance to Soho where we drank Camden Road – now hear some of the finest British with Bill’s friend, the like a trooper, and treated demolished – we had to musicians at full pelt, with guest Irish painter and writer all the men like her get up in the middle of musicians each week. There are Patrick Swift, who was children. the night and leave plans to build new homes on also a friend of Lucian’s. It was not until 1964 because he said someone the Croftdown Road site– Seeing Lucian left a when painter Tim was looking for him. I which has caused controversy strong impression. Behrens took me to imagined it was a Lucian Freud; with members and neighbours I loved the Colony Wheeler’s restaurant that possessive lover, but inset: Fiona in 1980 – but unless Mansfield can Room with its dark green I met Lucian again and never found out. Lucian boost its income, the future for mirrored walls (known as that was it. We met and was marvellous told him I was seeing want with this?” he said the club is uncertain. the Colony School re-met over the years. company, as sensitive as Masud Khan, the analyst, contemptuously. Dan Carrier because so many artists After an encounter in the his whippet Eli, and full for supervision, he said While painting he G Jazz at the Mansfield starts drank there) and I saw Fitzroy Tavern in the of sweet attentiveness but he had met Khan shortly would swear a lot, his on Sunday, 7.30-11pm, at the influence on Bacon’s 1970s with him, and his this could quickly after Khan’s marriage to quick eyes darting The Mansfield Bowling Club, painted interiors; but I closest friend, the painter change. He was horrified prima ballerina Svetlana intensely back and forth Croftdown Road, NW5. b£4. was scared of Muriel Frank Auerbach, I I was thinking of training Beriosova and the two – art was his passion. He – More on Wally Fawkes, page 9 Belcher who ruled over enjoyed my first oysters as a psychotherapist: men got into an argument worked relentlessly day Bruce did a marvellous the place – who swore with Lucian at “Too many of them during which Lucian and night, stopping only series of photographs of Wheeler’s. He loved already,” he said, said: “You may be to go out for a meal or to Lucian, one of which is food and was a good swearing under his married to her, but I’m gamble, or even to visit very playfully based on cook. St John’s in breath. In 1988, when I f***ing her.” the National Gallery at André Kertész’s 1926 Entering his flat in night, when no one was Danseuse Burlesque. Holland Park was like there except the security Both a tribute to the great ENGLAND’S LANE BOOKS entering the Bank of guards, to look at his photographer and an in- England: two huge favourite paintings joke between the two of Quality books & stationery for all security doors with undisturbed. them, it has Lucian balan - multiple locks led into a He told me that one ced in an uncomfortable 'A terrific book shop' - David Nicholls sparsely furnished flat time –in spite of the tight pose on the floor among with bare boards. A bed, security – a jealous lover his painter’s rags (see “This is a shop to cultivate and rekindle a a bath, a kitchen table had slashed one of his Review cover picture). true love of books.” - Time Out with a couple of chairs; pictures in a crazy fit. Lucian had painted the in another room a small We had friends in artists’ model and social - www.conwayhall.org.uk Free story time sessions for pre-schoolers Mondays table with a tiny Rodin common too, until he fell ite Henrietta Moraes in at 11am or Fridays at 4pm, no booking required. maquette and a Bacon on out with them. The the 1950s. She had been the wall. Functional. He photographer Harry engaged to Martin Green, ROOM HIRE Bring this advert for a 15% discount off would get a bottle of Diamond was one and the man I later I married, poetry books from feature section this week champagne from under a Bruce Bernard the artist and who looked for all pile of papers and in the was another. Harry took the world like Lucian’s Spend £20 and receive a FREE 3-day morning make delicious the loss of this friendship twin brother. In a unique and historic breakfast, while pouring very badly, but never Henrietta and Martin pass to SpringHealth Gym. derision on the biggest ever showed it. Yet I had gone off to Dublin central london location for gallery in New York for found inscribed books together on a sort of England’s Lane Books is open 9am – 6pm Monday – sending him the visitors’ from Lucian in Harry’s engagement, generously 5 to 500 people Saturday and 10am – 6pm Sundays. book following a flat years later, showing paid for by Francis 41 England’s Lane NW3 (Nearest tube: Belsize Park. C11 bus) retrospective of his work: Lucian did keep in touch, Bacon, but Martin had a 020 7586 9764 www.englandslanebooks.co.uk “What can I possibly albeit from a distance. change of heart, and I Review 2 Camden New Journal 28 July 2011.

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