Martin Gayford

Richard Diebenkorn at the Royal Academy reviewed: among the best visual evocations of LA there are

The cool, rich, melancholy paintings of this West Coast American hover seductively between realism and abstraction

Richard Diebenkorn 'Berkeley #5' (1953) . Copyright: The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation 
issue 21 March 2015

It is true that, like wine, certain artists don’t travel. Richard Diebenkorn, subject of the spring exhibition in the Royal Academy’s Sackler Wing, is a case in point: an American painter who is revered in his native land, but of whom few will have heard over here. Will the RA show change that, and — more crucially — does it deserve to? Up to a point.

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