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When the figures don't quite add up

Flowers East is showing more than

50 leading lights of `British Figurative

Painting'. Odd, then, that the best

work on view is more like abstraction

Flowers East represents more artists than any other British gallery and its director, Matthew Flowers, is on good terms with other dealers. So he regularly borrows their artists for his interesting group exhibitions. One would expect the new Flowers show, "British Figurative Painting", to be wide-ranging - which it is, for it includes the work of more than 50 painters. That's fine. But we might also hope that the show would be original, which on the whole it is not.

The exhibition confirms that current abstract painting is more inventive than ...

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