Month: May 2013
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George Cukor and Peter Watson
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Watson knew the legendary gay American film director, George Cukor, well enough to ask him to sponsor him in connection with Watson’s visa application to visit America in the later 1940s. One wonders if the American immigration authorities would have opened a file on Watson.
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William Nicholson. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings by Patricia Reed.
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in Book ReviewsAnyone wishing to assess 20th century English artists objectively will recognise Sir William Nicholson as one of the greats. This book fully supports that status and is itself a great book.
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Rina Arya. “Francis Bacon. Painting in a Godless World”
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in Book ReviewsNot all writers about Bacon have been able to write so clearly. But the interpretation of Bacon’s paintings is not a task where “success” is possible. The task facing the author of trying to analyse works created intuitively was never going to be easy. As ever with a great artist, we are left with the…