Mason, RaymondArtist: Raymond Mason Title: Marlborough London New York Poster Format: 30 x 20 inches Born in Birmingham in 1922. Studied painting at Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts (1937 39) and, after shortened war service, at the Slade School of Art (1943 46). In 1946 he moved to Paris where, although already a gifted draughtsman, meeting and befriending Giacometti persuaded him to turn to sculpture. Over a lifetime in Paris he would get to know several of

he began to work figuratively

and Brusberg Gallery

Jacklin initially worked with abstraction

a solo show on R

An important blueprint for the exhibition is Bouchet’s observation that Surrealism was rendered obsolete by the explosion of advertising in the middle of the last century—effectively outshining the artists with a more sophisticated and depraved dream-machine

the secret

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which detailed the everyday minutiae of his adopted city’s daily grind

humour and a particular gift for characterisation

Barry Schwabsky is art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum

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