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4 months agoRediscovering Roger Fry, the overlooked Bloomsbury artist who helped bring Cezanne and Van Gogh to the world
"So much has been written about Bloomsbury art," wrote the British historian Fiona MacCarthy in 1999, "it is easy to forget how little we have seen of it." Nearly three decades on, this remains true for the person long thought to be the most important in the group. The forthcoming solo presentation of paintings by Roger Fry (1866-1934) at Charleston in Firle, East Sussex, aims to rectify this oversight.