Justin Vulliamy describes Anrep's studio in his introduction to the catalogue of the Anrep retrospective at Gallery Edward Harvane, January–February 1973. Anrep worked on mosaics in this studio and bought brioche tins to keep his tesserae in. Most of the works on the walls are probably cartoons for mosaics, though hanging high up to the top left of the doorway (above the head) one can see the picture by Pierre Roy ‘A Naturalist's Study’ of 1928 which was bequeathed to the Tate by Anrep in 1969 ( T01182). The general appearance of the studio is fairly accurate, except that most of the floor was occupied by a very large table and there were not so many pictures. But when Anrep parted from his wife Helen in 1926 he got this studio from Roy and it remained his until about three or four years before his death. Igor Anrep, Boris Anrep's son, says that this studio at 65 Boulevard Arago in Paris (Studio 4) originally belonged to Roy, on a long lease, and Boris Anrep lived next door. He met Pierre Roy when both were studying at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1908, and they remained life-long friends. His works include the mosaic floor for the entrance hall and upper landing of the National Gallery, London (19) and the floor for the former Blake Gallery at the Tate (1923). He lived for some years in England, where he made his first mosaics, and then from 1926 mainly in Paris. Russell (bequest from the artist)Īn imaginary portrait of the painter and mosaicist Boris Anrep (1883–1969), who was born in St Petersburg and studied art in Paris and Edinburgh. and ‘BORIS ANREP IN HIS STUDIO/65 BOULEVARD ARAGO/1949’ on back of canvas T03537 Boris Anrep in his Studio, 65 Boulevard Arago 1949

The Death Sonnets by Justin Tate