newsletter 9- 28 July 2002
QUOTES
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon


Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.
Paul Cezanne


INTERESTING LINKS
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SEEN.COM.AU
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The online gallery were artists promote themselves and each other.

Henri Matisse
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good collection of Matisse images collected from the web

ART IN THE NEWS
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Media baron puts £50m Rubens in a new frame

A newspaper owner who last week paid £49.5m for a Rubens painting, making it the world's most expensive work of art, was yesterday scraping together an extra £20,000 because he was unhappy with the frame.
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Stolen Chagall returns to Russia
A stolen Chagall painting, which was held at ransom by thieves who demanded peace in the Middle East, has been returned to its Russian home.
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Summer sales survey: Contemporary art, London
In an intriguing development, modern art collectors are stalking, and paying fancy prices for, a favoured list of contemporary figurative painters

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