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2 unusual facts about Sven Berlin


Sven Berlin

Around this time, Berlin founded the Crypt Group of modern-minded young artists, along with Peter Lanyon, John Wells and Bryan Wynter, and joined the Penwith Society of Arts for a short time, before leaving the group in distaste at its abstract tendencies.

He is now best known for his controversial fictionalised autobiography The Dark Monarch, which was withdrawn just weeks after publication in 1962 following legal action, and has now been republished, becoming the theme of an exhibition in the Tate St Ives in autumn 2009.



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