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In July 2022, James Hart Dyke (b.1966) – the leading mountain painter of his generation – climbed Mont Blanc via its rarely attempted north face in order to paint from the summit at sunset with an objective to re-enact and emulate as closely as possible the conditions under which the legendary French painter of the Alps, Gabriel Loppé (1825-1913) made his pair of summit paintings at sunset in August 1873. MONT BLANC: The Summit Paintings is on until 8 October 2023 at Cromwell Place, London, SW7 2JE.

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Elias Sime isforms suggestive of landscapes and cityscapes viewed from above. Eregata comes from Sime’s language, Amharic, and the closest translation in English is ’serene.'

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