Painting is terribly difficult
Julian Barnes: Myths about Monet, 14 December 2023
Monet: The Restless Vision
by Jackie Wullschläger.
Allen Lane, 545 pp., £35, October 2023,978 0 241 18830 9 Show More
by Jackie Wullschläger.
Allen Lane, 545 pp., £35, October 2023,
“... out his loft apartment at 143 Prince Street when he received an unexpected visitor. This was Henry Geldzahler, curator of modern art at the Metropolitan Museum. Hughes, probably the most macho and combative critic in his profession, was, by his own account, sweaty, foul-tempered, sore-footed and ‘grey with ingrained dirt’. Geldzahler, a ‘happily ... ”