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...Peter Blake: Sculpture and Other Matters is at Waddington Custot, London W1, until 13 April; waddingtoncustot.com...
...A superb room of William Blake’s and Chris Ofili’s iridescent, mysterious watercolours absorbingly converges formal and intellectual concerns — blending figure and background, popular culture segueing into...
...Venture capitalist Spencer Stewart didn’t want to spend lockdown in Miami....
...requested poem is “If” by Rudyard Kipling, followed by “This Be the Verse” by Philip Larkin (the one with the profanity in the opening line), “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, “The Tyger” by William Blake...
...The further inclusion of “The Centurion’s Servant”, Stanley Spencer’s version of one of Christ’s miracles, is a stretch too far....
...“At the moment [the] economic growth we have in Europe is consumer-led,” says Neil Blake, head of European research and forecasting for CBRE, the property advisers....
...Terry Frost, Peter Blake (“I wanted to make an art that was the visual equivalent of pop music”), Allen Jones, Julian Trevelyan....
...The back is engraved with a world map, the celebrated “V” for victory symbol and a dedication: “1939 — Prime Minister Winston Spencer Churchill — 1945”....
...In Quentin Blake: Artists on the Beach, the popular illustrator displays drawings made in response to favourite works in the Jerwood collection by Stanley Spencer, Christopher Wood, LS Lowry and others....
...But this is not, in essence, surreal: it draws on ideas in William Blake, Palmer and even D.H. Lawrence, and amounts to a neo-romantic crossover of the spirit between wild nature and humanity....
...These paintings announce Spencer, like Nash, as a visionary in an English tradition – Samuel Palmer, William Blake – able to negotiate with the European avant-garde enough to get modernist distance, without...
...In the late summer sun, it resembles William Blake’s “bar of gold”....
...Tate acknowledges as much with permanent solo presentations of Henry Moore and William Blake; Turner in the Clore gallery remains the model....
...Professor Peter Spencer, York University: We have stood together through thick and thin despite our differences and I think it would be a great pity if our Scottish neighbours voted for independence....
...Professor Peter Spencer, York University: I think the puzzle will tend to fade as economy picks up and the output data are revised into line with recent employment reports and business surveys....
...Among early purchases was William Blake Richmond’s “The Song of Miriam”, a huge “processional” piece bought from Angela Nevill....
...Professor Peter Spencer, York University: I am not too concerned about the housing market, which is just recovering from the mortgage famine....
...Neil Blake, Experian: It will push the unemployment threshold down if need be (ie, if unemployment hits 7 per cent sooner rather than later)....
...Professor Peter Spencer, York University: As I say, we need to see a resumption of real earnings growth and hopefully investment and net trade to be more confident about this recovery....
...Professor Peter Spencer, York University: Plan A has been systematically watered down....
...Professor Peter Spencer, York University: So far, the recovery has been heavily dependent upon the consumer’s willingness to reduce the saving ratio....
...I’m looking at English pop too – Allen Jones, early Peter Blake; interesting, a bit undervalued. I’m not running to pay millions, I’ve always bought through the ranks....
...and Samuel Palmer to Stanley Spencer....
...More unpredictable is what Moscovites will make of William Blake, currently making his debut at the Pushkin Museum: it’s a long time since Russians have taken angels seriously....
...Blake Nixon, director of Coats who expects to move from an executive to a non-executive director’s role at GPG in July, said the total amount available would be capped at 9.9 per cent of GPG’s own capitalisation...
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