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'Summer Afternoon.' (1903) We know that the figure in Emil Nolde's work is Ada, a Danish girl from the island of Alsen. Nolde said he was 'amazed by her natural beauty, sadly a rough sailor turned up, fell in love with her and we never saw her or heard of her again.'
'Curved Barn,' (1922) The first impression this painting (Bex Mill, Sussex) gives is of a summary evocation; it's important to remember that Hitchens was one of the most quietly radical British artists of his era, steeped in post-impressionist and modernist French painting.
'Margaret Morris, Summer, 1914,' depicts J D Fergusson's wife who he first met in Paris in 1913. She was a pioneer of the modern dance style made popular by Isadora Duncan, and was the inspiration for numerous portraits which give an insight into all aspects of her career.
Louis de Brocquy wrote of this work: 'In 1959 passing through a village in La Mancha in shimmering heat, I stopped spellbound before a small group of women and children standing against a whitewashed wall. From that moment I never perceived the human presence in the same way.'
Rachel Reckitt's painting of a family taking shelter from the London Blitz
is painted from her viewpoint as a relief orderly assisting with the evacuation of children from the city to Golsoncott in Somerset.
@Tate has announced they are holding a major exhibition of Paul Cezanne's works in London this autumn with around 80 paintings from collections in Europe, Asia, North and South America. This is 'Seated Man,' from around 1905.
'Boys Fishing.' (1940) William Roberts can be seen as the urban, secular form of Stanley Spencer. His style changed little over the years, favouring solid but friendly figures, and positive, celebratory images of everyday life.
'Le Port.' (1911) Fishing boats, and other small sailing craft congregated at the site that most attracted Maurice de Vlaminck whenever he visited the port of Le Havre. Though there's a hint of Cubism, Vlaminck followed Cézanne's layering technique to add dimension and weight.
'Moonlight Shripwreck.' (1901) The turbulent seascape depicted here must have been a familiar site for Thomas Moran, having travelled over oceans on a number of occasions to Europe and commonplace in the waters off his hometown of East Hampton, Long Island.
'The Print Maker.' (c1860) Honoré Daumier's career was one of the most unusual in the history of 19thC art. Famous in his time as France's best-known caricaturist and one of the period's most profoundly original realists, he remained unrecognised in his importance.