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18th November 2024

Sim Fine Art online exhibitions unearth many fascinating pictures, some of which have been "hidden away in folios" for years. The most recent, 'The War and Women Artists', recognises the "historically sad fact is that women’s artistic contribution to the war effort wasn’t fully recognised at the time", but is also a fine introduction to several overlooked artists. This is Paper Sir? (exh. 1939) by Bethia Clarke (1867-1959) in which an ageing news-seller is “depicted rheumy-eyed and vulnerable against a backdrop of headlines prophesying war and destruction that seem to belong to a modern era that has left him behind”.

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