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Rakewell would be fibbing if he didn’t admit that malt whisky has been helping him through this darkest of winters. So he was pleased to discover, at the end of November, that the Dalmore Highland Single Malt had announced a four-year partnership with V&A Dundee, through which the two will ‘cultivate a global platform for contemporary master creatives and their protégés’. Your correspondent has long felt that museums don’t have enough scotch in them.
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London offers world-class art everywhere you look. The city has superb galleries and institutions that are home to world-class artworks. Sometimes, though, these collections can take a bit of extra work to find.
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die
, edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
Boats in the Harbor, Collioure (1905)
André Derain was born into a middle-class family in the small town of Chatou, just outside Paris. He refused to follow his father into the family business as a patisserie chef and, instead, attended a fine art course at the Académie Carriere in Paris, where he met Henri Matisse. It was under Matisse’s tutelage that Derain was subsequently introduced to the work of Paul Signac and Georges Seurat. Their work, together with the developments of the Symbolists and the Neo-Impressionists, informed his own art.