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| Charles Tunnicliffe Cob ca. 1938 oil on silk Manchester Art Gallery |
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| René Magritte The Empty Mask (Le masque vide) 1928 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff (Wales) |
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| Robert Colquhoun Mater Dolorosa 1958 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Peter Harris Save the World by Margret Harris 1967 (Blackbird and James Dean) 1998 oil on board Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Fernand Léger Nature morte avec un vase 1925 oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland |
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| Charles Maussion Portrait 1974 acrylic on paper Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich |
It was an oddity of Mrs. Lowder's that her face in speech was like a lighted window at night, but that silence immediately drew the curtain. The occasion for reply allowed by her silence was never easy to take, yet she was still less easy to interrupt. The great glaze of her surface, at all events, gave her visitor no present help. "I didn't ask you to come to hear what it isn't – I asked you to come to hear what it is."
– Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (New York Edition, 1909)
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| Charles Burton Marion's Jugs 1984 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff (Wales) |
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| Lisa Milroy Handles 1989 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| John Armstrong Flags and Classical Armour about a Column ca. 1930-35 oil on canvas Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Josef Herman Miners ca. 1951 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| Eliot Hodgkin Two Hyacinth Bulbs 1966 tempera on board Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester |
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| Terry Frost Black and Dust Pink 1978 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| John Worsley Portrait of John Henry 'Rob' Derbyshire 1948 oil on canvas Victoria Baths, Manchester |
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| Francis Bacon Study of a Head 1952 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| Lucian Freud The Painter's Brother, Stephen 1985-86 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff (Wales) |