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Hepworth in Colour review – salty Cornish seascapes compressed into immaculate sculptures

Barbara Hepworth’s elegant works, with their harp-like strings and splashes of blue, evoke the foamy breakers of St Ives. But should we really be surprised she used colour?

The Guardian - UK

Van Gogh hospital paintings to be shown together in London for the first time

Works created after artist’s ear mutilation incident go on display at the Courtauld Gallery next month

The Guardian - UK

Henry Moore at the Courtauld Gallery review: a splendid show of the great sculptor's lesser-known drawings

These drawings make us think again about Moore the sculptor, while the gallery also has a fine show of Vanessa Bell’s works that is worth visiting

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Claudette Johnson: Presence review – subtle swipes at the exploitative modern masters

The artist brilliantly questions depictions of non-white figures by such revered painters as Gauguin and Picasso – but there’s a quiet power to her new work that leaves theory behind

The Guardian - UK

‘I thought we’d stormed the citadel, but we hadn’t’: Claudette Johnson on blazing a trail for Black artists – and the joy of reigniting her career

As a retrospective of her work opens, the British artist talks about the 1980s BLK Art Group, being eclipsed by the YBAs and how her paintings have a new sense of empowerment

The Guardian - UK

It’s a Constable – but not the one you know – in a new show of forged art

A seascape purportedly by John Constable, but actually by one of his sons, features in an exhibition of forgeries at the Courtauld Gallery in London

The Guardian - UK

Peter Doig at The Courtauld Gallery review: an ‘eagerly awaited’ homecoming

The Scottish artist Peter Doig is arguably “the most influential living painter of his generation”, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. His paintings have sold for record sums, and traces of his “enigmatic” style can be detected in the work of countless younger artists. Doig (b.1959) blends dreamlike figuration with…

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Peter Doig at the Courtauld Gallery review: magnificence among the masters

This show proves the Scottish artist is almost unsurpassed among his peers

Evening Standard

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

Atlantic City by Helen Saunders discovered under Praxitella by Wyndham Lewis, who may have painted over it on purpose

The Guardian - UK

Courtauld Gallery sparks anger with ‘tasteless’ Van Gogh souvenirs including ear-shaped eraser

‘Suicide is not a joke and mental illness is not a joke,’ said one critic

The Independent UK

‘Mental illness is not a joke’: London gallery under fire for Van Gogh gifts

Souvenirs at Courtauld Gallery exhibition include ‘emotional first aid kit’ and ear-shaped eraser

The Guardian - UK

Van Gogh Self-Portraits at the Courtauld Gallery review: beg, borrow or steal, you have to see this

The gallery has gathered nearly half of the self-portraits the artists created across his lifetime

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