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Euan Uglow

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Art historian Martin Gayford recalls visiting the London studio of celebrated painter Euan Uglow, an artist for whom precision and perfection were driving forces.

What did the critic Martin Gayford make of an artist who confessed not to be able to finish a picture? One whose sitters were obliged to commit to several years of posing? Of a painter struggling to bend the naked body of a girl into the shape of the pyramids of Giza?
Euan Uglow was an uncompromising and difficult artist.

Martin recalls touring the painter's rambling London House-cum-studio on a boozy evening and learning more about the artist for whom precision and perfection were the driving forces.

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Fri 17 Jul 2015 22:45

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