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21st April 2026

John Bratby (1928-92), one of the so-called 1950s Kitchen Sink painters, specialised in images of ordinary, everyday realism. Still Life with Chip Frier (1954, Tate) contains a fascinating and readily recognisable accumulation of kitchen objects, a far cry from  traditional, artfully selected and arranged still life paintings. 

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