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A fillip for the art lover’s spirits

THIS Friday, November 19, one of London’s cultural treasures re-opens. For the past three years, the Courtauld Gallery in Somerset House, WC2, has undergone extensive redevelopment. Its magnificent collection—famously strong in Impressionists, but with many wonders besides —has been returned from a global tour and rehung. At the

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