Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more, there is plenty here on the crowded, ramshackle household and its often hand - to - mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic, temperamental sculptor — the hoarded treasures, the art and music which pervaded the house, the much loved but somewhat casually raised children, the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live - in models, nannies, general factotums, portrait sitters, studio visitors, plaster moulders, musicians, friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift.
Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more, there is plenty here on the crowded, ramshackle household and its often hand in mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic, temperamental sculptor — the hoarded treasures, the art and music which pervaded the house, the much loved but somewhat casually raised children, the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live - in models, nannies, general factotums, portrait sitters, studio visitors, plaster moulders, musicians, friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift.