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Pastels. The RSPB. Canal Boat TV. Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art. Images, left from top: The Disquieting Muses, 1968; The Disquieting Afternoon, 1972; The Archaeologists, 1966; Hector and Andromache, 1942; Giorgio de ChiricoMyth and Mystery15 January – 19 April 2014 The visionary work of Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) had an enormous impact on the course of twentieth-century art.
Works of Zao Wou Ki at the Marlborough Gallery. Zao Wou-ki, now 82, found his distinctive voice and vocabulary in his mid-thirties, having by that time lived in Paris for a decade.
By the end of 1957 he had committed to abstraction, on terms which from the beginning set him apart from the other artists of his circle—Mitchell, Riopelle, Vieira da Silva, Soulages—as much as from his great supporter Henri Michaux. His cypher-like signature, to which he has remained faithful for over fifty years, gives his first name in Chinese characters and his last in a Western orthography. It is emblematic of a stranded cultural identity, recognized from the first by sympathetic critics as the key to his artistic direction.