Arts quiz Financial Times 2nd Dec

alistairscot | 15:22 Mon 04th Dec 2006 | Arts & Literature

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Anybody help with the identity of the artist and name of the work shown? Weekend FT page W3

Mrs Speake

3x5 Letterman painting oil on canvas

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jno

one like this?

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/paula _rego.htm

alistairscot

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Many thanks jno. You are certainly close in terms of the style but after much research it appears to by David Hockney after the 18th century Hogarth painting 'Bedlam' in a series entitled A Rakes Progress. I shall know on Saturdy
when the ft is published! Many thanks again.

jno

wow, wouldn't have guessed that... but reproduction in the FT tends not to be very sharp, is my only excuse.

alistairscot

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Thanks for your comment jno. Can I hasten to add that mine is still a guess, with help from the local library , and
we shall see tomorrow! I agree the ft reproduction is poor and the Rake himself looks like a younger debauched version of our chancellor Gordon Brown! There could be a moral!..

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