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
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