In December, John decided there was nothing to lose and that he would write to Picasso asking him to view Nolan's work in storage. Sunday translated the letter into French, but even in draft form in English it read as sycophantic and sentimental ... They went to Picasso's apartment to hand deliver the letter and were met at the door by the artist's factotum. One wonders what Picasso made of it. Th ... (read more)
Jane Grant
Jane Grant was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney for her thesis on the writer Cynthia Nolan, and has written widely on Australian literary and cultural history. She is the current Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Fellow at the University Of Melbourne, and is researching the literary production and networking of Australian second-wave feminism.