100 Years of Art in Britain
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STILL LIFE IN A RESTAURANT 1976/79 Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) P3968 © courtesy Howard Hodgkin
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AFTERNOON IN ISCHIA 1947 Michael Ayrton (1921 – 1975) P24 © The Artist's Estate
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GIRL WITH ROSES 1947/48 Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011) P79 © Lucian Freud Archive, 2014. All Rights Reserved. Bridgeman Art Library
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FRIENDS WALKING 1952 Kenneth Armitage (1916 – 2002) P289 © The Artist's Estate
100 Years of Art in Britain was an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Leeds City Art Gallery. 101 works were on display, one each from the years 1888 to 1988. Rather than taking a predictable route through the history of modern art movements, the exhibition uncovered new and unexpected relationships between disparate items: from well-known Victorianand edwardian favourites to paintings and scupure by some 'moderns' and 'post-moderns' of the '80s, including Moore, Mondrian, Spencer, Freud, Hockney, Gilbert and George and Susan Hiller.
