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Book Review
Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy: Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 521–523
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McAra, Catriona (McAra, Catriona)
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Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy: Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool Edited by Victoria Noel-Johnson and Marzina Marzetti. 176 pp. incl. 120 col + b. & w. ills. (Skira, New York, 2023), £48. ISBN 978–88–572–5061–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
15. Unicorns came down to the sea, by Kay Sage. 1948. Oil on canvas, 92.1 by 71.8. cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
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16. Aux aguets le jour, by Yves Tanguy. 1939. Oil on canvas, 40.6 by 30.5 cm. (Private collection).
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17. Ring of iron, ring of wool, by Kay Sage. 1947. Oil on canvas, 137.2 by 97.2 cm. (Mint Museum, Charlotte).
Article
A ‘crucifixion complex’: two newly discovered sketches attributed to Francis Bacon
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 225–235
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Daniels, Rebecca (Daniels, Rebecca)
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1. Sketch, by Francis Bacon. c.1930. Pencil on tracing paper mounted on paper, 25.2 by 16.6 cm. (irregular). (Collection & Image © Hugh Lane Gallery; The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS; Artimage 2024; Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin;).
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10. Studio Interior, by Francis Bacon. c.1936. Pastel and pencil on paper, 23.5 by 35 cm. (© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS; Artimage 2024; private collection).
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11. Sketch for triptych, here attributed to Francis Bacon. c.1933. Pencil. (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Roy de Maistre Archive MS2013.10 ARC342; National Art Archive, Gift of Roy de Maistre’s niece, Caroline de Mestre-Walker, 2013).
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12. Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, by Francis Bacon. 1944. Oil and pastel on fibreboard, each panel approx. 94 by 74 cm. (irregular). (© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS; Artimage 2024; Tate).
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2. Two pencil sketches, here attributed to Francis Bacon. c.1933. Pencil on paper, 26 by 18.5 cm. (On the half-title page of A. Level: Picasso, Paris 1928; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Roy de Maistre Archive MS2013.10 ARC342; National Art Archive, Gift of Roy de Maistre’s niece, Caroline de Mestre-Walker, 2013).
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3. Sketch of a Biomorph, by Francis Bacon. c.1936. Black, blue and darkbrown ink on lined paper, 16.7 by 12.1 cm. (irregular). (Collection & Image © Hugh Lane Gallery; The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS; Artimage 2024; Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin).
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4. Abstraction from the Human Form, by Francis Bacon, c.1936. Medium and dimensions unknown. Destroyed by the artist. (© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS; Artimage 2024).
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5. Sketch for Portrait of M.E. Sadler [skull], here attributed to Francis Bacon. c.1933. Pencil and possibly wash. (Art Gallery of New South Wales; Roy de Maistre Archive MS2013.10 ARC342; National Art Archive, Gift of, Sydney; Roy de Maistre’s niece, Caroline de Mestre-Walker, 2013).
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6. Crucifixion [skeleton], by Francis Bacon. 1933. Oil on canvas, 62 by 48.5 cm. (© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS; Artimage 2024; private collection).
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7. ‘A candidate for Baptism’, detail of Baptism of Christ, by Piero della Francesca. (From R. Longhi: Piero della Francesca, Milan 1930).
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8. The Crucifixion [skull], by Francis Bacon. 1933. Oil on canvas, 111.5 by 86.5 cm. (© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS; Artimage 2024; private collection).
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9. Replica of Portrait of Michael Sadler, by Loris Rey. Bronze. (University College, University of Oxford).
Article
Edith Hoffmann’s early years in England, 1934–38
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1320–1329
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Yapou-Kromholz, Yonna (Yapou-Kromholz, Yonna)
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1. Edith Hoffmann, photograph by Franz Pfemfert, Photo Dorit, Paris. c.1937–38. (Edith Hoffmann family collection, Jerusalem).
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2. Elizabeth Senior. Photograph, c.1935. (Courtesy of Sally Senior Mellersh).
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3. Eliezer Yapou. Photograph, 1938. (Edith Hoffmann family collection, Jerusalem).
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4. Herbert Read, by Howard Coster. Photograph, 1934. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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5. The Exhibition of 20th Century German Art, New Burlington Galleries, London, by Ewan Phillips. 1938. Gelatin silver print, 16.4 by 23.2 cm. (© The Estate of Ewan Phillips; Tate Archive; M03751).
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6. The Exhibition of 20th Century German Art, New Burlington Galleries, London, by Ewan Phillips. 1938. Gelatin silver print, 16.4 by 23.2 cm. (© The Estate of Ewan Phillips; Tate Archive; M03754).
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7 and 8. Details of Figs.5 and 6, showing Edith in the New Burlington Galleries.
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9. Edith Hoffmann and Eliezer Yapou in Paris. Photograph, 1935. (Edith Hoffmann family collection, Jerusalem).
Article
Biting satire: notes on Salvador Dalí’s ‘Debris of an automobile’
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1305–1319
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Lomas, David (Lomas, David)
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1. Detail of Fig.2, showing a painter at an easel with the Ampurdan plain stretching beyond.
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10. The dream and lie of Franco, by Pablo Picasso. 1937. Aquatint and etching, image 31.7 by 42.1 cm. (Plate I, 8th January 1937, printed by Roger Lacourière; © Succession Picasso and DACS, London; Scala, Florence).
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11. Plate from Les Chants de Maldoror (Comte de Lautréamont), by Salvador Dalí. 1933–34. Photogravure and drypoint after celluloid engraving, 33 by 25 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Florence/bpk, Bildagentur fuer Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin; Sprengel Museum, Hannover).
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12. The knight of death, by Salvador Dalí. c.1934. Oil on canvas, 65 by 54 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).
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13. Plate from Les Chants de Maldoror (Comte de Lautréamont), by Salvador Dalí. 1934. Photogravure and drypoint after celluloid engraving, 33.2 by 25.2 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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14. Expressions of fury in horses, a lion and a man, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1503–04. Pen and ink with wash, and red chalk on paper, 19.6 by 30.8 cm. (© 2023 His Majesty King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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15. Study for Suburbs of a paranoiac-critical town, by Salvador Dalí. 1935. Pencil and ink on paper, 32 by 22.8 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin).
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16. Paranoiac woman-horse (invisible sleeping woman, lion, horse), by Salvador Dalí. 1930. Oil on canvas, 50 by 65 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; NPL – DeA Picture Library; Bridgeman Images; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris).
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17. Conversion of St Paul, by Caravaggio. 1601. Oil on canvas, 230 by 175 cm. (S. Maria del Popolo, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
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18. St George slaying the dragon or Roger and Angelica or Perseus and Andromeda, by Giorgio de Chirico. 1940. Oil on canvas, 91 by 116 cm. (Private collection).
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19. Battle for the Standard (re-touched copy after Leonardo da Vinci’s Battle of Anghiari), by Peter Paul Rubens. 1603. Black chalk, pen and paint on paper, 45.3 by 63.6 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting a telephone, by Salvador Dalí. 1938. Oil on canvas, 54.5 by 65.1 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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20. Paranonïa, by Salvador Dalí. c.1935–36. Oil on canvas, 38.1 by 46 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Dalí Museum, St Petersburg).
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21. Duncan’s horses, by Salvador Dalí. 1946. Pen and India ink on card, 25.3 by 19.4 cm. (Private collection).
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22. The city rises, by Umberto Boccioni. 1911. Tempera on card, 36 by 60 cm. (Jesi Collection, Milan; Bridgeman Images).
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3. The enigma of Hitler, by Salvador Dalí. 1938. Oil on canvas, 95 by 141 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid).
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4. Street lamp, study of light, by Giacomo Balla. 1909. Oil on canvas, 174.7 by 114.7 cm. (© Peter Willi; Bridgeman Images; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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5. Detail of Fig.2, showing Gala as a winged Victory and a father and child with a Leonardesque rock formation at Cadaqués.
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6. Detail of Guernica, by Pablo Picasso. 1937. Oil on canvas. (© Succession Picasso and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid).
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7. Detail of Fig.2, showing the horse and the light bulb hanging above it, which echoes the position of the electric light in Guernica.
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8. William Tell, by Salvador Dalí. 1930. Oil and collage on canvas, 113 by 87 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris).
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9. Horse head: study for ‘Guernica’, May 2, 1937, by Pablo Picasso. Oil on canvas, 65 by 92 cm. (© Succession Picasso and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid).
Article
Stanley Spencer, postcards, small books and old masters
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 952–67
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Martineau, Jane (Martineau, Jane; Martineau, Jane; M., J.T.)
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1. Sir Stanley Spencer; Sydney Spencer; Gilbert Spencer; William ‘Pa’ Spencer, by Philip Edward Morrell. 1914. Vintage snapshot print, 6.1 by 10.3 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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10. Postcard of a corbel in Exeter Cathedral sent by Desmond Chute to Stanley Spencer, 21st June 1916. (John Spencer collection; JS 32).
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11. Roger Fry’s glass slide of Masaccio’s St Peter healing with his shadow. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, box 32).
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12. St George, by Donatello. (Frontispiece of H. Rea: Donatello: Il maestro di chi sanno, London 1900).
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13. Postcard of Gentile Bellini’s Finding of the True Cross sent by Henry Lamb to Stanley Spencer. (John Spencer collection; JS 50).
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14. Postcard of Giotto’s Joachim and the shepherds sent by Jas Wood to Stanley Spencer, 17th October 1927. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 82).
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15. Reverse of Fig.14.
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16. Postcard of Pieter Bruegel’s Autumn sent by Gilbert Spencer to Stanley Spencer, 1934. (John Spencer collection; JS 82).
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2. Stanley Spencer’s postcard album open to showing a Virgin or saint holding a book, Tonnerre stone, c.1390–1400, Musée national du Moyen Age, Thermes de Cluny, Paris (inv. Cl.18931), and the Court of Pan, by Luca Signorelli, formerly in the collection of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 4 and 5).
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3. Letter from Stanley Spencer to the Raverats illustrating the shape of the reliefs on the campanile of Florence Cathedral. 12th April 1913. (Tate Archive, TGA 8116/21).
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4. Roger Fry’s glass slide of Andrea Pisano’s Creation of Eve from the campanile of Florence Cathedral. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, box 13).
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5. Postcard of the Entombment of Christ, by Donatello, sent from Gwen Darwin to Stanley Spencer, 11th March 1914. (John Spencer collection; JS 6).
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6. Reverse of UCL 51.
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7. Three postcards superimposed to illustrate the west wall of the apse of S. Francesco, Arezzo, by Piero della Francesca, sent by Gwen Raverat to Stanley and Gilbert Spencer, 25th March 1914. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 53, 50 and 51).
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8. Roger Fry’s glass slides of Piero della Francesca’s Death of Adam. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, boxes 19 and 32).
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9. Reproduction of the Lion of St Mark, by Vittore Carpaccio, from The Masterpieces of Carpaccio and Giorgione published by Gowans & Gray, 1911.
Article
Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood: a meeting on canvas
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 946–51
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Featherstone, Rupert (Featherstone, Rupert)
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1.Reverse of Fig.2, showing signature and inscription. (© Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge; photograph Chris Titmus).
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2. Boats at quayside, by Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood. 1929–30. Oil, house paint and pencil on canvas, 45.8 by 53.5 cm. (Private collection; © Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge; photograph Chris Titmus).
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3. Map of Fig.2, showing Alfred Wallis’s involvement assesed by optical examination. (© Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge).
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4. Detail of Fig.2, showing Wallis’s seagulls and his changes to the buildings’ windows.
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5. X-radiograph of Fig.2, showing distribution of barium (house paint) and lead white. (© Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge).
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7. La Ville-Close, Concarneau, Brittany, by Christopher Wood. 1929–30. Oil on millboard, 36.8 by 81.6 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Detail of Fig.2, showing the new building inserted by Wallis.
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6. Concarneau. – Sortie de la Ville Close et le Quai Pénéroff. Postcard. (Private collection).
Article
Tanguy's titles
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 932–45
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Author:
Mack, Stephen (Mack, Stephen)
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1. Maman, Papa est blessé, by Yves Tanguy. 1927. Oil on canvas, 92.1 by 73 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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2. Dame à l’absence, by Yves Tanguy. 1942. Oil on canvas, 115 by 89.5 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; photograph by Walter Klein; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen, Dusseldorf).
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3. Inventions of the monsters, by Salvador Dalí. 1937. Oil on canvas, 51.4 by 78.4 cm. (© Salvador Dali, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí; DACS, London; Art Institute of Chicago).
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4. Poem-object, by André Breton. 1941. Carved wood bust of man, oil lantern, framed photograph, toy boxing gloves and paper mounted on drawing board, 45.8 by 53.2 by 10.9 cm. (© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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5. Le Diaposin de satin, by Yves Tanguy. 1940. Oil on canvas, 99.1 by 81.3 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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6. La Grue des sables, by Yves Tanguy. 1945. Gouache on paper, 46.1 by 31 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Art Institute of Chicago).
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7. Terre d’ombre, by Yves Tanguy. 1927. Oil on canvas, 99.1 by 80.3 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; |Detroit Institute of Art).
Book Review
A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years, 1933–1943. By John Richardson
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1301-1302
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Green, Christopher (Green, Christopher)
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A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years, 1933–1943 By John Richardson. 310 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2021), £35. ISBN 978–0–307–26666–8. | :
Exhibition Review
Surrealism Beyond Borders
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 592-594
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Reviewer:
Richardson, Michael (Richardson, Michael)
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Surrealism Beyond Borders Tate Modern, London 24th February–29th August | :
Illustrations
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1. A circus rider’s dream, by Yayoi Kusama. 1955. Gouache on paper, 74.9 by 64.5 cm. (Private collection; © Yayoi Kusama; courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Singapore and Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London and Venice; photograph Elisabeth Bernstein; exh. Tate Modern, London).
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2. The seven sons of Lautréamont (and his dutiful beautiful daughter), by Ted Joans, Heriberto Cogollo, Agustin Cárdenas, Jorge Camacho, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Hervé Télémaque and Joyce Mansour. 1970–79. Ink on paper with poem, 76.2 by 21.6 cm. (Private collection; © Ted Joans Estate; courtesy Laura Corsiglia; photograph Buddy Ratner; exh. Tate Modern, London).
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3. Ekrany (screens), by Erna Rosenstein. 1951. Oil on canvas, 48 by 64 cm. (© Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź; exh. Tate Modern, London).
Exhibition Review
Julie Manet: An Impressionist Heritage
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 305-307
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Thomson, Belinda (Thomson, Belinda)
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Julie Manet: An Impressionist Heritage Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 19th October 2021–20th March 2022 | :
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27. Julie Manet or Child with cat, by Pierre- Auguste Renoir. 1887. Oil on canvas, 65.5 by 53.5 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; exh. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris).
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28. Julie Manet writing, by Ernest Rouart. Undated. Oil on canvas, 116.7 by 89.2 cm. (Private collection; exh. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris).
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29. Portraits of Jeannie at the piano and Paule listening to her, by Julie Manet. 1899. Oil on canvas, 90 by 90 cm. (Private collection; exh. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris).
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