National Museum, Cardiff
In a superb, mystical retrospective, the painter sheds social trappings – and her clothes – as she uses her enormous intelligence to paint purely
This is Gwen John straight, no…
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Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World review – sex, squalor and jungle sweat for an eternal outsider ○
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Michael Werner Gallery, London
Artists as varied as Sarah Lucas, Gwen John and Georg Baselitz are called upon by critic-curator Hilton Als to chime with the writer of Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys was a …
8 months ago
Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John ○
Gwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biography
A young woman sits reading, a pot of tea to hand, her blue dress almost the only col…
11 months ago
‘He said I sounded hysterical’: Celia Paul on lover Lucian Freud, his cold friends and the ‘devastating’ YBAs ○
In prose and in paint, the great artist Celia Paul is exorcising the ghosts of her past – from the cruelties of her lover Freud, to his offhand cohorts, and the YBA revolution that declared painting …
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