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2 unusual facts about Richard Shone


Richard Shone

Having obtained a BA in English from the University of Cambridge in 1971, Shone was through the 1970s and 1980s a prolific reviewer in the art press - The Burlington Magazine, Art Review, Artforum - as well as a contributor on literature and biography to The Spectator and The Guardian.

Shone curated several exhibitions dedicated to British art, such as Walter Sickert’s portraits at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath (1990); a full Sickert retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (1992–93, with Wendy Baron); The Art of Bloomsbury for the Tate Gallery, London (1999).



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