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Florence Hallett

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Florence writes about the visual arts for a range of specialist and general interest publications.

Articles By Florence Hallett

William Feaver: The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth 1922-1968 review - a testament of friendship

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Tim Walker: Wonderful Things, V&A review - a bracing full-body immersion

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Artists in Amsterdam, Dulwich Picture Gallery review - a slight but evocative sketch

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Rachel DeLoache Williams: My Friend Anna review - a fraudster for the Instagram age?

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Yorkshire Sculpture International review - Hepworth and Moore loom large

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Takis, Tate Modern review - science and art collide

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Francis Bacon: Couplings, Gagosian Gallery review - sex and power in double figures

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Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing, The Queen's Gallery review - peerless drawings, rarely seen

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Henry Moore at Houghton Hall: Nature and Inspiration review - big views bring new light

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Sea Star: Sean Scully, National Gallery review - analysing past masters

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Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now, Gagosian Gallery review - old master, new ways

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Edvard Munch: Love and Angst, British Museum review - compassion in the age of anxiety

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Van Gogh and Britain, Tate Britain review - tenuous but still persuasive

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Louise Bourgeois, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge review - a slender but choice selection

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Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory review, Tate Modern - plenty but empty

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Best of 2018: Art

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