Publisher's Synopsis
Gluck was born Hannah Gluckstein in 1895, into the family that founded the Lyons catering empire. She was a rebel.;She insisted on her own monosyllabic name. She dressed as a man, in clothes designed by Victor Stiebel and Elsa Schiapearelli. She had passionalte affairs with society women. She acknowledged no influences on her painting and exhibited her work only in "one-man" shows.;In this biography Diana Souhami interviews the people, the events and the art which made up Gluck's life; unpublished letters, diaries and manuscripts are mined to reveal not only an extraordinary life, but also a much undervalued artist.
