Eddie Buckle

I blog about art exhibitions with Lydia Lancaster: See @BlogExhibitions for more. Former UK government editor for Bloomberg. @WatfordFC, tennis, athletics fan

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This month's big new exhibition - just opened - is Gwen John @NatGalleriesSco in Edinburgh, and there are some splendid shows in their final days, as you can read in our August round-up: https://t.co/o5AuMjccwE

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The big exhibition opening in August is the Gwen John retrospective @NatGalleriesSco in Edinburgh: https://t.co/o5AuMjccwE

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Grim up North in the 30s... This is Julian Trevelyan's The Potteries (1938, @MuseumandArt Swindon) in the Comrades in Art: Artists against Fascism exhibition @TownerGallery in Eastbourne. Read about this absorbing show on our blog: https://t.co/PKl0kUewnd

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From the Francisco de Zurbarán exhibition @NationalGallery in London, a moment of intense spirituality: The Apparition of Saint Peter to Saint Peter Nolasco (1629, @museodelprado). Read about the show on our blog: https://t.co/h7me7PzdWP. Image © Museo Nacional del Prado

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Preparing for an SOS: This is Eric Ravilious's The Lifeboat (1938, Private collection) in the Comrades in Art: Artists against Fascism exhibition @TownerGallery in Eastbourne. Read about this absorbing seaside show on our blog: https://t.co/PKl0kUewnd

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Now open at the Kunsthaus in Zurich: The Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi, master of silence, stillness and muted light. This is Resting (1905, @MuseeOrsay, Paris). We saw the show earlier this year @MuseoThyssen in Madrid: https://t.co/8q6ecG9XBz

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@TheTennisTalker Shame for him that it's on grass.

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Something surreal on the South Downs... Paul Nash's Event on the Downs (1934, UK Government Art Collection) is part of the fascinating Comrades in Art: Artists against Fascism exhibition @TownerGallery in Eastbourne: https://t.co/PKl0kUewnd

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It's your last chance to see the truly superb Anthony van Dyck exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa: https://t.co/D9BxPWDUVL. On only until July 19. This is a detail from Alessandro, Vincenzo and Francesco Maria Giustiniani Longo, c. 1626-27, @NationalGallery, London.

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Francisco de Zurbarán's Saint Serapion, bound and tortured but still in spotless white robes. This 1628 painting from @TheWadsworth (Hartford, Connecticut) is part of the stunning Zurbarán show @NationalGallery in London: https://t.co/h7me7PzdWP

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Intense realism and deep religious faith come together in the superb Francisco de Zurbarán exhibition @NationalGallery in London: https://t.co/h7me7PzdWP. Pictured: Agnus Dei (A Lamb), 1635-40, @museodelprado, Madrid. Image © Museo Nacional del Prado

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New exhibitions in Germany & Switzerland:
Signac & Neo-Impressionism at Museum Barberini, Potsdam
Courbet at Museum Folkwang, Essen
Hammershøi at Kunsthaus Zurich
Our July round-up: https://t.co/h4Yehy3ZQy
Pic: Maximilien Luce, The Port of Saint-Tropez (1893, Private collection)

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New exhibitions in Suffolk and London this month include:
John Constable @IpswichMuseums
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller @NationalGallery
Richard Dadd @royalacademy
These shows and more round Europe in our July round-up: https://t.co/h4Yehy3ZQy

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Among new exhibitions this month:
Vilhelm Hammershøi at the Kunsthaus in Zurich
Ingres and Fashion at Musée Ingres Bourdelle in Montauban
Our July preview: https://t.co/h4Yehy3ZQy
Pictured: Hammershøi's Interior with Woman at the Piano, Strandgade 30 (1901, Private collection).

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New exhibitions in Germany in July:
Paul Signac (plus van Rysselberghe, Luce, Seurat etc) at Museum Barberini in Potsdam
Gustave Courbet at Museum Folkwang in Essen
These & more in our preview: https://t.co/h4Yehy3ZQy
Pic: Signac, A Sunday, Opus 201 (1888-90, Private collection)

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Don't forget tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry @britishmuseum go on sale tomorrow! Also new in London in July:
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller @NationalGallery
Richard Dadd @royalacademy
More in our preview of the month ahead: https://t.co/h4Yehy3ZQy

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Comrades in Art @TownerGallery in Eastbourne, the story of artists against fascism in the 30s & 40s: https://t.co/PKl0kUewnd. Don't miss the facsimile of Cliff Rowe's The Struggle between the Unemployed and the Police Forces (1933, Lviv National Art Gallery).

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Death and destruction comes to south London; the artist Clive Branson wrote that "My whole being revolts against war." This is his Blitz: Plane Flying (1940, @Tate) in the Artists against Fascism show @TownerGallery, Eastbourne. Read about it on our blog: https://t.co/PKl0kUewnd

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It's your last chance to get to @staedelmuseum in Frankfurt for Claude Monet on the Normandy Coast, which closes July 5. A terrific show - we saw it at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon late last year: https://t.co/p4LDWOI3vW. Pictured: Monet's Etretat, mer agitée, 1883, MBA Lyon

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Satan goes to Cherbourg! The Devil in 19th-century art at the Musée Thomas Henry starts tomorrow: https://t.co/Gb3HnMof3Z @VilleCherbourg