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Although before him Charles Perrault in France and the Brothers Gimm in Germany had collected and retold folk-tales in ways which found wide popular audiences, it was only with the appearance of Hans Christian Andersen's Eventyr (Fairy Tales) in 1835 that a writer emerged capable of creating new tales equal to those which existed in the folk memory. The grace and simplicity with which Andersen wrote, and his penetrating insight into the human condition, soon won him a wide following, and by the 1840s he was the most famous writer in Europe. Today, tales such as The Ugly Ducking and The...

Kiedy Matisse umrze - powiedział Picasso - Chagall pozostanie jedynym malarzem, który rozumie, czym naprawdę jest kolor. Marc Chagall, malarz wspomnień i snów, poeta koloru, był uwikłany w najtragiczniejsze wydarzenia XX wieku: dwie wojny światowe, rewolucję, czystki i wysiedlenia. W epoce, kiedy wielu wybitnych artystów uciekało od rzeczywistości w abstrakcję, on przetwarzał swoje bolesne doświadczenia w bezpośrednie, a zarazem symboliczne obrazy przemawiające do każdego człowieka. Urodził się na terytorium obecnej Białorusi w 1887 roku jako najstarsze z dziewięciorga...

Published to accompany the exhibition, Leon Kossoff: A London Life, this fully illustrated catalogue examines the paintings and drawings of one of Britain's most acclaimed living artists. With a catalogue raisonne of Kossoff's paintings in preparation, this is an apt moment to consider his oeuvre. The publication brings together masterworks from each period of the artist's career, demonstrating the unwavering rigour, the nuance and the psychological intensity of his output. The exhibition explores the artist's working practice and his creative environment. The city of his birth, London...