From Sickert to Gertler: Modern British Art from Boxted House
Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, Suffolk, until 13 December
Private collections of art are fascinating, both for the light they shed on the tastes and preoccupations of their owners, and for the otherwise often hidden network of associations they can reveal. Paintings and sculptures made on a domestic scale exert a subtly different appeal than the products of public or museum art.
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