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Bridget Riley
Red with Red Triptych, 2010
Oil on linen, 169.4 x 570 cm
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne. Purchase with the participation of Clarence Westbury Foundation and an anonymous private foundation, 2011
AM 2011-303
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Meguerditchian/Dist. RMN-GP

Taking Sickert Seriously

Who was the greatest British painter of the 20th century? Plenty, I suppose would make a case for David Hockney, Lucien Freud, Howard Hodgkin and Stanley Spencer. I’d rank Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Caulfield and Frank Auerbach higher, but I suspect few would share my view. Perhaps that leaves the most plausible candidates as Francis Bacon, Bridget Riley and Walter Sickert – and Sickert (1860-1942) gets by far the least attention these days.

Waking Up to Woking

Woking may not be trendy… but it’s only 19 train minutes from Clapham Junction and has a new shopping centre! What do you mean, you still don’t want to go? It also has plenty of art at the moment:

Bridget Riley Hayward Gallery FAD Magazine

Bridget Riley

On now Hayward Gallery are showing a major retrospective devoted to the work of celebrated British artist Bridget Riley. Spanning 70 years of the artist’s working life, it is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date.

Image: Bridget Riley, Memories of Horizons 3, 2014 © Bridget Riley 2018. All Rights Reserved.

BRIDGET RILEY PAINTING NOW

Comprising work made between 1960 and the present, Bridget Riley: Painting Now surveys the development of Riley’s career-long exploration of looking and seeing in relation to the capacities of painting and picture making.

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