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Who? Hans Holbein the Younger
What? Portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve. More commonly known as The Ambassadors.
Where? The National Gallery, London
The very, very first in a regular series:
Who? Charles Sheeler
What? Ballardvale
Where? Dulwich Picture Gallery
When? On show as part of the small-but-fascinating Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s until 8 June 2008.
Why? Because I took home a postcard of this having seen the exhibition recently and every time I’ve looked at it since the colours seem more perfect and the angles more dynamic. Not a powerful picture as such, but an incredibly assured one.
And an exhibition that is well worth seeing by the way, tracing America’s emergence as an ‘art power’, following the dramatic influence of the European avant garde, and ending up with New York effectively overtaking Paris. A little extra exposition on the walls would not have been unwelcome though.
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