Way of Seeing

1 Sargy Mann: Let It Be Felt That the Painter Was There

9 November to 9 February 2020

The late and long-neglected British painter Sargy Mann seems to be having something of a moment of late. Ex-pupil Chantal Joffe curated a collection of his late paintings at the Royal Drawing School earlier this year, award-winning author Olivia Laing featured in a symposium on his work, and now comes this rare retrospective – the largest public display of his work to date.

Born in 1937, Mann studied under Frank Auerbach and Euan Uglow. He developed cataracts at