The magic of touch
May 12, 2021
3 minutes
Huon Mallalieu
HOW the fingers tingled three weeks ago! I had made my way to St James’s to view highlights from Cheffins’s fine-art sale brought from Cambridge to their London office. For months, I had not handled any object of art, other than familiar things that I own, and my hands might have lost sensitivity. Bronze is a most tactile material and there was a glorious specimen ready to be handled, even if the form of a strutting ostrich with spiky-feathered wings () precluded the exquisite smoothness that offers the greatest
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