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Article: A turn of wit: in January 1965, Denys Sutton assessed the writings of the Bloomsbury critic Clive Bell, who had recently died.(FROM THE APOLLO ARCHIVES)(In memoriam)(Reprint)
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- July 1, 2006
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During the 1930s and 1940s Bell contributed regular articles to the New Statesman and Nation. Like every other critic he was sometimes compelled to pot-boil, but, as in those days the number of exhibitions held in London was very much smaller than at present, he was not called upon to comment on such a wide variety of topics as is now the case with art writers. He was in the fortunate position of being asked to write about painters he admired. Thus he had the opportunity to review shows of Braque, Picasso and Vuillard. He was at the top of his form in a brilliant appreciation of Vuillard's first London exhibition at Tooth's in 1934, and in the course of this he wrote: 'An ...
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