A symbiotic alliance
Jan 15, 2020
3 minutes
TO look at the 100 or so paintings spot-lit in the Wallace Collection’s basement galleries is to step out of a grey London January and experience anew our entrancing world in all its glory. A fruit bat flies alarmingly straight at you; a spray of green mangoes hangs in front of your nose, seemingly ripening on the page; a stork deftly prizes a snail out of its shell. A single close-up image completely fills a large piece of paper and
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