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• Henry Moore’s ‘missing’ sculpture Head on sale to the public for the first time

  08-10-2023 17:00
  
  Not seen in public since 1952, the unique alabaster carving is expected to fetch up to £3m at auctionOver the centuries, painters and sculptors have exchanged works with one another, usually as a mark of mutual respect and friendship. Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson did just such a swap early in their careers and it proved to be an even deal between two of the most significant British artists of the last century.In 1931, Moore handed his close friend an exquisite sculpture of a girl’s
  
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• Frieze at 20 – the rebellious pop-up that changed art fairs for good

  08-10-2023 15:00
  
  Twenty years on, London’s gathering of gallerists and collectors is big business but it began as a gamble inspired by the success of Tate Modern‘It was a surprise for Londoners, 20 years ago, when a big tent went up in the park; just what was it?” says Thaddaeus Ropac, the leading Austrian-born international gallerist, recalling the birth of the Frieze art fair in London. “But after two years, all the taxi drivers knew what was going on and it was beginning to define the
  
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• Philip Guston; Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas review – tragi-comic cartoonery

  08-10-2023 14:00
  
  Tate Modern; Tate Britain, London
  The delayed Philip Guston retrospective opens at last – and it is mordant, magnificent, unmissable. Over at the other Tate, Sarah Lucas’s repertoire of rude Britannia one-liners wears a little thinThe artist is in his studio working on a self-portrait, a smaller version of this larger painting. He wears a Klansman’s white hood. It has vertical slits for eyes and hyphenated stitches, which he is getting down on canvas with one gigantic red hand,
  
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