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CLARK
(Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, 1903-1983, Art Historian, Life Baron)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed 'K' to 'Dearest Ava' LADY WAVERLEY
(1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) thanking her for a most delightful evening - & excellent dinner. I must get your cook to tell my Joan how to do Mont Blanc. How is the report on Canada which I gave to Lord Addison. It is confidential - but now out of date rather - so I don't think its secrets are of much value!!..., 2 sides oblong 8vo., 17 Lord North Street, 23rd November no year
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Background
Clark was an art historian, museum director and broadcaster. His expertise covered a wide range of artists and periods, but he is particularly associated with Italian Renaissance art, most of all that of Leonardo da Vinci. After running two art galleries in the 1930s and 1940s, he came to wider public notice on television, presenting a succession of programmes on the arts from the 1950s to the 1970s, the largest and best known being the Civilisation series in 1969. Ava was styled as Lady Anderson from 1941 until 1952. She was a political and social hostess at the centre of government during the Second World War. Winston Churchill noted her contact with gt. affairs. It was said that she had more indirect influence than any woman of her generation.
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