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• Sotheby's reopens doors with auction of a Stanley Spencer wartime gem

  20-06-2020 15:30
  
  The 1940 painting, Cottage Garden, Leonard Stanley, is expected to fetch more than £300,000 when it goes on sale in JulyThe bucolic joy of a painting by one of the most inspirational British artists of the 20th century is likely to cut through the new reality of face masks, hand sanitiser and social distancing when Sotheby’s opens its doors next month for its first exhibition and live auction since the Covid-19 lockdown began.In 1940, when Stanley Spencer painted Cottage Garden, Leon
  
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• ‘Like magical realism’: María Berrío on her surreal collages

  20-06-2020 10:00
  
  The Brooklyn-based artist treats Japanese print paper like paint to explore her Colombian childhood with New York eyesTo look at a María Berrío work is to engage in a staring contest. The Colombian-born, Brooklyn-based artist, known for her surreal large-scale collages made with Japanese print paper, typically has at least one of her figures, almost always a woman, looking straight at the viewer. In Oda a la Esperanza (Ode to Hope), a 2019 work inspired by the Trump administration&
  
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