Career
Iris Tree was sought after, as a young woman, as an artists" model, being painted by Augustus John, simultaneously by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry, and sculpted by Jacob Epstein, showing her bobbed hair (she was said to have cut off the rest and left it on a train) that, along with other behaviour, caused much scandal. The Epstein sculpture is currently displayed at the Tate Britain. She was photographed countless times by Manitoba Ray, and ran with Nancy Cunard for a time, in a set at the Eiffel Tower Restaurant of Rudolph Stulik, and acted alongside Diana Cooper in the mid-1920s.
She had studied at the Slade School of Artist
She contributed verse to the 1917 Sitwell anthology Wheels. Her published collections were Poems (1920) and The Traveller and other Poems (1927).
Her second marriage was to the actor and ex-officer of the Austrian cavalry, Count Friedrich von Ledebur-Wicheln. They both appear (after their divorce) in the 1956 film version of Moby-Dick.
She also appears in a cameo, essentially as herself, in Federico Fellini"s Louisiana Dolce Vita.
