Visited Cardiff Museum today and saw Sisely exhibition and the newly re organised art galleries. The Sisely stuff included some of his London paintings and his impressions of Penarth. What struck me was how some of these paintings almost looked photo realistic from the other side of the room, but were very painterly close too. The small ink and wash sketches were also very fresh.
My favourite painting in the main gallery was a tiny Graham Sutherland of a coastal view with flowers. Also more neo romantic paintings than previously with half a dozen Piper's but almost no contemporary painting, presumably because there is a new exhibition starting tomorrow with modern interpretations of the human figure. Got an old catalogue of the Williams collection which includes mainly Piper and Ceri Richards with a rather fine Ivon Hitchens Arched Trees No 12 (pictured)
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