The second exhibition I visited during my recent trip to London was the Lucien Freud show at the National Gallery. It was a curious experience not the least because I ended up having to revise quite considerably my estimation of his work. I have always been an admirer of Freud, and I think that the … Read more
We set off tomorrow morning for one of our regular “raids” on London. These usually combine an attempt to meet my wife’s need for doses of theatre, and my craving for more gallery visits. She has been longing to see Six I think ever since it was first staged, and we also want to see … Read more
Before yesterday my knowledge of Walter Sickert was thin indeed. I had some awareness of the general regard in which he is held in the history of British art, but that amounted to very little. As a consequence, when Tate Britain announced a major retrospective review of his work I decided that this was an … Read more