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Exhibitions

The painter who channelled the forces of gravity

Plus: When Joan Miró met Eduardo Chillida

21 June 2014

8:00 AM

21 June 2014

8:00 AM

The Last Waltz: New Work by an Old Man

Hastings Arts Forum, 36 Marina, St Leonards-on-Sea, 21 June to 2 July

Chillida on Miró

Ordovas, 25 Savile Row, W1, until 26 July

Tragically, Ian Welsh (1944–2014) did not live to see this exhibition of his latest work. Diagnosed with terminal cancer on the eve of his 70th birthday, he struggled to finish the two large paintings in his last series of works, entitled ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’. He found it increasingly difficult to stand to paint, but he worked, sitting down instead, on a group of six small canvases that have a mysterious linear assurance worthy of the best of late de Kooning.

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