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The Wounded Philoctetes (1775)
Don't think that the old masters were always masters of subtlety. They could be as crude as we can.
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Mademoiselle O'Murphy (1751)
The surrealist Georges Bataille said, "No collector could ever love a work of art as much as a fetishist loves a shoe." Was he right?
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The Dog (c1820)
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Ben Nicholson (Abbot Hall, Kendal)
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The Lure of the East (Tate Britain, London)
Nineteenth-century British painters do the Near and Middle East: William Holman Hunt, Lord Leighton and Richard Dadd and others contemplate turbans, harems and hookahs. (020-7887 8888) to 31 Aug
The Grand Tour (Various venues, York)
High-definition, actual-size reproductions of 49 old masters, including Stubbs’s Whistlejacket, are hung around the city’s streets. (01904 687 687) to 8 Sept
Nowhere Is Here (The Drawing Room, London)
Five artists from around the world explore the natural environment, in memory, in fantasy, and extremely literally. (020-7729 5333) to 20 Jul
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