ABSTRACT
With the publication of Adrian Stokes's book, The Image in Form, he recovered the fame he had first enjoyed following the publication of The Quattro Cento in June 1932. He was also ill. In the spring of 1969 he had had an X-ray and colonic irrigation treatment. Two years later he was operated on for bowel cancer. Ariadne was on Adrian Stokes's mind. So was the fifty-fifth anniversary in April 1972 of the death in the First World War of his beloved brother, Philip Hendy. Stokes also painted that month, his hand "crab-like as it proceeded across the canvas". When this became too difficult he used his thumb to make marks on the canvas. Many of Stokes's friends attended the exhibition. Margot Fonteyn would also have been there had her ballet performances not kept her abroad.
