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• Rare Rubens drawing bought at small French sale up for auction

  27-06-2021 15:09
  
  Surviving page from notebook all but destroyed in fire in 1720 expected to fetch as much as £600,000A drawing bought in a small French sale by a buyer with a hunch has been identified as a rare surviving page from an important notebook made by a young Peter Paul Rubens.If Rubens’ original Theoretical Notebook still existed it would be a true art wonder, but it was all but destroyed in a fire in 1720. Only two pages were thought to have survived, treasures of collections in London and
  
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• Caught on canvas: how armed robber has turned his life of crime into art

  27-06-2021 11:30
  
  Jack Murton was inspired to paint in jail by a fellow inmate, a friend of Lucian Freud, and now has an exhibition in an east London galleryThere’s a fight going on in the public gallery, one of the defendants is shouting from the dock, the prosecuting counsel is trying to catch the judge’s eye, a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol lie on a table as evidence and one of the jurors has fallen asleep. This is The Trial, one of the many paintings capturing real events created by armed robber t
  
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