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• ‘Fit of pique’: lost vorticist masterpiece found under portrait by contemporary

  21-08-2022 14:34
  
  Atlantic City by Helen Saunders discovered under Praxitella by Wyndham Lewis, who may have painted over it on purposeA lost masterpiece by a leading abstract artist of the early 20th century has been discovered beneath a portrait by a contemporary who may have painted over the original in a “fit of pique”.Atlantic City by Helen Saunders, a member of the radical and short-lived vorticist movement, depicts a fragmented modern metropolis, almost certainly in the vibrant colours associat
  
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• Bill Lynch: The Exile of Dionysus review – the greatest American artist you’ve never heard of?

  21-08-2022 14:00
  
  Brighton CCA
  He died aged 53 without ever having shown his work, but Bill Lynch’s paintings on salvaged wood transfix with their dual power of primitive joy and high sophisticationThe great American artist Bill Lynch (1960-2013) never had a single exhibition in his lifetime. Almost nothing was written about his wild and beautiful paintings – ancient yet modern, mythological yet supremely contemporary – and they have only gradually started to emerge. Brighton Centre for Contempo
  
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