Feigning a Relish
Nicholas Penny: One Tate or Two, 15 October 1998
The Tate: A History
by Frances Spalding.
Tate Gallery, 308 pp., £25, April 1998,1 85437 231 9 Show More
by Frances Spalding.
Tate Gallery, 308 pp., £25, April 1998,
“... in the Louvre and it reopened in 1818 as a gallery for pictures by great living artists (including David, then in political exile). The creation of the first European museum of modern art was thus something of an expedient, but the political impulse behind it was not ephemeral. No subsequent French regime dared to neglect it. Unsurprisingly, the character of ... ”