Glyn Philpot

Today’s art tour was to Pallant House Gallery in Chichester to see a retrospective of Glyn Philpot.  He painted mainly between the wars,  partly society beauties and many male friends and lovers.  Many of these were black and were by far the most human and characterful of his work, indeed of any painting of black men, and one woman, that I’d ever seen up to this period. After this period he went a bit modernist and less interesting except for a time when he painted black jazz players and nightclub doormen in Paris which were equally intimate and detailed.    

We went to a lunch at The Barn in Little London in Chichester which was passable.   Henry went back to London and I watered the plants. Gently ‘cos of my back!