My preview in @theartnewspaper.bsky.social of the William Nicholson exhibition opening at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, this weekend.

Sarah Lucas‘s cigarette portrait of Maggi Hambling from OOO LA LA, their joint exhibition opening today at 8 & 38 Bury Street, St James’s, presented by Frankie Rossi Art and Sadie Coles HQ. A winning combination - and a brilliant show.

I don't know, every day there is something - no, there are lots of things. So to remind us of what we are dealing with, here again is a postcard made by the great Derek Boshier back in 2016: "I must not lie about my life - Donald Trump"

'Nancy with Feather Hat,' (1910) is a portrait of William Nicholson's daughter. Nancy was a painter and fabric designer and owed much of the style of her early designs to her mother, Mabel Pryde. In January 1918, she married the soldier-poet Robert Graves.

Wonderful to see in Hitchin yesterday North Herts Museum’s complete holdings of 50+ paintings, drawings & prints by William Ratcliffe, who became a full-time artist only after meeting Harold Gilman in Letchworth in 1908 and three years later was elected a founder member of the Camden Town Group. 1/2

An English exhibition of 'The Two Roberts' - Colquhoun & MacBryde - is long overdue. The show at Charleston in Lewes, curated by @damianbarr.bsky.social, takes place in the Sussex town where they were rather incongruous residents for two years in the 1940s, courtesy of the 'Ladies of Miller's'. 1/4

If you happen to be in north Hampshire before 29 November do go and see the beautifully-presented exhibition of paintings and drawings by William Scott at Jenna Burlingham’s gallery in Kingsclere. 1/3

Very sad. His contribution to scholarship on the Nabis in general, and Vuillard in particular, was immense.

Walter Richard Sickert, Sir Thomas Beecham Conducting, c. 1935 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135302

Piano Nobile’s excellent exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by Walter Sickert from the Lucas collection includes this drawing of c.1912 - enigmatically titled The Handicap - of a young Enid Bagnold and a not-so-young Harold Gilman locked in an amorous clinch. 1/3

🔍 This month, our former placement student, Caitlin Johnson (BA Museum Studies and Archaeology, 2021-2025), provides a closer look into Walter Sickert’s intriguing drawing — featured in our current exhibition ‘Paint, Pencil, Print: 10 Artworks for 10 Years’ collections.reading.ac.uk/art-collecti...

It is early in the morning, and there are few people about in this 1919 work by William Nicholson of the Cenotaph in London. It is the original white-painted wood and plaster structure designed by Edward Lutyens, it stands out in stark relief against the Foreign Office.

David Hockney’s exhibition, opening tomorrow at Annely Juda’s chic new gallery in Hanover Square, contains radiant new paintings made this summer of chairs, flowers and fruit which joyfully convey his undimmed zest for life (and art). 1/3

The answer is probably yes. Tate's 1999 exhibition The Art of Bloomsbury received a critical mauling - very unfairly in my view. (Full disclosure: I wrote an essay in the catalogue.) The gist of most reviews was 'why should we care about these ghastly people about whom we've heard far too much?' 1/4

This is not, in fact, his first wife Grace Canedy - who had returned to America a year before this painting was made - but his younger sister Irene Battiscombe. It was painted at the Battiscombes’ house in Warwick in spring 1910.

I’m not sure I share John-Paul’s hatred of Cezanne’s Les Grandes Baigneuses; but having caught the Cezanne exhibition at the Musée Granet in Aix just before it closed earlier this month, I would trade it for almost any other picture on show there. 1/2

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

Who is this baby painted c.1912-13 by Harold Gilman? I make a very tentative suggestion in a catalogue note for Bonhams Modern British sale next month: www.bonhams.com/auction/3071...

My catalogue note on this rediscovered Interior by Harold Gilman, in Bonhams Modern British sale on 19 November: www.bonhams.com/auction/3071...

'The Vineyard.' (c1938) Throughout the interwar years, Vanessa Bell lived predominantly in London and travelled to Europe, taking extended stays in Italy and France. Her paintings at this time consist of warm, sunny landscapes that document her travels abroad.

Leonard Woolf, in a 1964 BBC interview, when asked to define his wife’s ‘genius’: 1/2

Happy 80th birthday to my not-at-all-fearsome friend Maggi Hambling.

Denton Welch (1915-48) belongs to a small band of British artists who were also novelists or poets - including William Blake, Wyndham Lewis, David Jones & Alasdair Gray. His 1945 autobiographical novel In Youth is Pleasure is a minor masterpiece. 1/3

The second of four portraits Harold Gilman made of the Polish-born artist Stanislawa de Karlowska, the wife of his great friend and fellow member of the Camden Town Group, Robert Bevan. To be sold in Christie’s Modern British sale in London tomorrow evening. www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...