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As a reminder of the reach of traditional print, I cannot resist printing): ‘In April 2018, you featured in COUNTRY LIFE a work by Mary Fedden which I was planning to take to the CADA Fair at Blenheim Palace. Needless to say the picture never made it to Blenheim. It was bought straight from the photograph by a famous model from the 1970s. When I arrived to deliver it, I found a truly wonderful collection of Modern British Art and that week's copy of COUNTRY LIFE left open at the relevant page.'

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