Nude with violin
By: Noël Coward
Contributors: Coward, Noel, 1899-1973
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: 'Nude with Violin', a light comedy of manners, is Coward's three act satire on 'modern art', criticism, artistic pretention and the value placed on art, set in Paris in 1954. The famous painter, Paul Sorodin, has died. His relatives and hangers-on converge on his studio, hopeful of financial gain, and are stunned to learn from his valet, Sebastien, that Sorodin has left a letter in which he admits that he never painted a picture in his life. The paintings of Sorodin's supposed three major periods turn out to have been executed by a choleric aristocrat, a jolly barmaid, and a Jamaican Seventh-day Adventist.
Notes: Previously published in print: in Plays six. London, Methuen Drama, 1999.