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Turner: Paintings and Watercolours from the Tate

Published on , by Marie-Laure Castelnau
"These are celestial and fluvial feasts of a sublime nature, which has been divested of its outer shell and rendered completely fluid by a great poet," wrote Huysmans of Turner's works. This exhibition, staged in conjunction with the Tate Britain, presents every facet of Turner the watercolourist, between sky and earth,...
View in the Avon Gorge, 1791, pencil, ink and watercolour on paper, 23 x 29 cm, Londres,... Turner: Paintings and Watercolours from the Tate

View in the Avon Gorge, 1791, pencil, ink and watercolour on paper, 23 x 29 cm, Londres, Tate.
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"These are celestial and fluvial feasts of a sublime nature, which has been divested of its outer shell and rendered completely fluid by a great poet," wrote Huysmans of Turner's works. This exhibition, staged in…
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