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Watson was an avid art collector acquiring works by such artists as Miró, Klee, and Pablo Picasso, which were displayed in his Paris apartment in the 1930s. He was the principal benefactor of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and also provided financial assistance to English and Irish painters including Francis Bacon , Lucian Freud ...
Peter Frank Patrick Watson (born 23 April 1943) [1] is a British intellectual historian and former journalist, [2] now perhaps best known for his work in the history of ideas. His journalistic work includes detailed investigations of auction houses and the international market in stolen antiquities .
Peter Watson (arts benefactor) (1908–1956), British art collector, benefactor and publisher Peter Watson (ophthalmologist) (1930–2017), British ophthalmologist Peter Watson (footballer, born 1934) (1934–2013), English footballer for Nottingham Forest and Southend United
Connolly founded Horizon after T. S. Eliot ended The Criterion in January 1939, with Peter Watson as its financial backer [2] and de facto art editor. Connolly was editor throughout its publication and Stephen Spender was an uncredited associate editor until early 1941. [4] Connolly described the magazine's goal during World War II as [2]
The Staithes group or Staithes School was an art colony of 19th-century painters based in the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes. [ 1 ] Inspired by French Impressionists such as Monet , Cézanne and Renoir , the group of about 25 artists worked together in plein air , in oil or watercolour .
Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (13 January 1904 – 13 July 1978) was an English artist and one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early life
The Art Department's focus was on modern American painting, works painted in the 17 years since the 1876 Centennial Exposition. [1] Hundreds of American painters submitted works, and more than 1,000 paintings in oil and more than 200 in watercolor were selected for exhibition in the Palace of Fine Arts.
Self-portrait with his wife, Marie-Suzanne Giroust, painting Henrik Wilhelm Peill, at and by Alexander Roslin Aiding a Comrade , at and by Frederic Remington Cymon and Iphigenia , by Frederic Leighton