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| L.S. Lowry Figures in a Street 1960 oil on board Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Francis Bacon Head of a Man 1960 oil on canvas Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich |
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| Anonymous Artist Académie ca. 1960 oil on canvas Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
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| Larry Rivers Portrait of David Sylvester 1962 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Lucian Freud Man's Head (Self Portrait III) 1963 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| A.J. Valen Académie ca. 1963-64 oil on board Edinburgh College of Art |
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| John Houston Turning Figure 1964 oil on canvas City Art Centre, Edinburgh |
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| Dorothy Mead Model Resting 1965 oil on board London South Bank University |
The Topaz of the Sixties
In the little tired spring,
Weary with the years of bubbling,
Deep down to where the gold sand comes to light
Again,
I see wreaths and wreaths of smiles.
"L'amour quand-même!" –
The gold bird in the cage exclaims.
"L'amour quand-même!" – reiterates the lark
To the dahlias and the petunia buds
In the garden.
"L'amour quand-même!"
Sings the nightingale in the plum-boughs,
Where the clematis shuts the window in
With fragrant fringe.
Once it was a precious stone –
Long, long, ago.
– Marsden Hartley (1920)
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| Charles James McCall Dressmaking ca. 1965 oil on canvas Maidstone Museum, Kent |
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| Alan Rawsthorne Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne 1966 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Richard Young Interior with a Figure 1967 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Josef Herman Portrait of Arnold Wesker 1968 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Anne Paterson Life Class at Gray's School of Art 1968 oil on board Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
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| Oskar Kokoschka Portrait of the 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon with his wife, Elizabeth Ivy Percy 1969 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |