Nina Hamnett is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Nina Hamnett loved crashing Paris salons in paint-splattered clothes, calling herself the “Queen of the Bohemians.” She once jumped into the Seine just to prove a bet about her courage, then shrugged it off with a cigarette and another absinthe. The one thing people still repeat about her art is that her portraits of friends, whether Modigliani’s sharp line drawings or her own ink sketches, capture the exact moment a laugh turns into a sneer. Tap into her 1910s sketch of Modigliani to see that lightning-in-a-bottle line work firsthand.