Artsmarts
Isabel Rawsthorne: living with Giacometti, drinking with Bacon and painting Nureyev
Isabel Rawsthorne is one of those women who turned her own life into a work of art. She was married three times, was most likely spying and conducting anti-Nazi black propaganda during World War II, making coal sketches in the theater hall when Rudolf Nureyev rehearsed there, and coming up with the design of costumes for the Royal Opera. Alberto Giacometti once saw her from afar in the evening…
