Cine s-a întâlnit cu Beatrice Hastings?

Beatrice Hastings was the pen name of Emily Alice Haigh (27 January 1879 – 30 October 1943), an English writer, literary critic, poet and theosophist. Her work was integral to British magazine The New Age which she helped edit along with her lover, A. R. Orage, prior to the outbreak of World War I. Hastings was also friend and lover of Katherine Mansfield, whose work was first published in The New Age. She also had love affairs with Wyndham Lewis and Amedeo Modigliani.

Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was a Canadian-born British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited Blast, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.

His novels include Tarr (1916–17) and The Human Age trilogy, comprising The Childermass (1928), Monstre Gai (1955) and Malign Fiesta (1955). A fourth volume, The Trial of Man, remained unfinished upon his death. He wrote two autobiographical volumes: Blasting and Bombardiering (1937) and Rude Assignment: A Narrative of my Career Up-to-Date (1950).

Raymond Radiguet (French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ ʁadiɡɛ]; 18 June 1903 – 12 December 1923) was a French novelist and poet. His two novels, noted for their explicit themes and unique style and tone, were praised by many of the greatest writers of the time. He died unexpectedly at the age of twenty.

Alfred Richard Orage (22 January 1873 – 6 November 1934) was a British influential figure in socialist politics and modernist culture, now best known for editing the magazine The New Age before the First World War. While he was working as a schoolteacher in Leeds he pursued various interests, including Plato, the Independent Labour Party and theosophy. In 1900, he met Holbrook Jackson and three years later they co-founded the Leeds Arts Club, which became a centre of modernist culture in Britain. After 1924, Orage went to France to work with George Gurdjieff and was then sent to the United States by Gurdjieff to raise funds and lecture. He translated several of Gurdjieff's works.

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (născută Beauchamp la 14 octombrie 1888 la Wellington, Noua Zeelandă – d. 9 ianuarie 1923 la Fontainebleau, Franța) a fost nuvelistă și poetă neozeelandeză de limbă engleză, care a scris sub pseudonimul Katherine Mansfield.

Influențată de Anton Cehov, a scris o proză scurtă de atmosferă, explorând într-o tonalitate lirico-afectivă, impregnată de delicatețe adesea melancolică, universul infantil și cel feminin.

În 1918 s-a căsătorit cu scriitorul John Middleton Murry.

Amedeo Modigliani (n. 12 iulie 1884, Livorno, Regatul Italiei – d. 24 ianuarie 1920, Paris, Île-de-France, Franța) a fost un pictor și sculptor italian stabilit în Franța, reprezentant al Școlii Pariziene ("École de Paris"), evidențiat în scurta sa viață printr-o creație plină de eleganță și rafinament, care depășește granițele manierismului, având clare tangențe în modernism, expresionism și fauvism, respectiv cu largi amplitudini în arta figurativă.

În întreaga sa viață, Modigliani a fost în căutarea frumuseții perfecte, ușor abstracte, care să reprezinte sinteza idealului visat cu concretul, reprezentat de model. Tema preferată a tablourilor sale este omul, excelând astfel în reprezentarea nudurilor de femei, a portretelor prietenilor, dar și ale unor necunoscuți.