Hermione Eyre

Nina Hamnett’s art was every bit as riveting as her life

The work of this famously witty memoirist and 'Queen of Bohemia' has long been overshadowed by her hedonism, but that is changing

The circus paintings are thick with menace: ‘The Ring Master’, c.1918, by Nina Hamnett. Credit: Bridgeman Images

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