Seascapes by Seurat, Faces by Freud: two new London exhibitions

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One of the pleasures I derived last year from visiting the National Gallery’s ‘Radical Harmony’ exhibition devoted to the neo-impressionists was the opportunity it afforded to reassess the work of Georges Seurat. Though I’d been familiar (or so I thought…) with his experiments in pointillism since my teens, I had always found pictures like Bathers … Continue reading Seascapes by Seurat, Faces by Freud: two new London exhibitions

Of Fish, Men and Mountains: Rarely Seen Masterpieces at the Courtauld

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The recently opened exhibition at the Courtauld – Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection – may include only around two dozen paintings, and its title may be a tad misleading: there’s just one Goya on show, and the show has very little (as far as I can tell, anyway) to say about … Continue reading Of Fish, Men and Mountains: Rarely Seen Masterpieces at the Courtauld