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Exhibitions

Richard Diebenkorn at the Royal Academy reviewed: among the best visual evocations of LA there are

The cool, rich, melancholy paintings of this West Coast American hover seductively between realism and abstraction

21 March 2015

9:00 AM

21 March 2015

9:00 AM

Richard Diebenkorn

Royal Academy, until 7 June

It is true that, like wine, certain artists don’t travel. Richard Diebenkorn, subject of the spring exhibition in the Royal Academy’s Sackler Wing, is a case in point: an American painter who is revered in his native land, but of whom few will have heard over here. Will the RA show change that, and — more crucially — does it deserve to? Up to a point.

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