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“... asked in the exhibition or catalogue (which contains excellent essays by the show’s organisers, Barnaby Wright and Karen Serres, as well as by the painter Merlin James): are these really cooks, waiters and bellboys? Initially this seems to have been the case. The first pastry cook Soutine painted – the subject of the first painting Albert Barnes ...”

“... I n a statement​ to accompany the accession of Cut Meringues by the Museum of Modern Art following his first New York exhibition in 1962, Wayne Thiebaud suggested that each era produces its own still life. Rather than the props and evidences of discreetly arranged domesticity, he would paint edible America and its impersonal machinery of desire. Cakes and pies and slices and cones, prearranged in rows or lines, and gazed on by eyes other than the artist’s ...”