On the Channel packet: Tate Britain's wide ranging exhibition 'Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec' examines the artistic links between Paris and London from 1870 to 1910. Depite many visual pleasures, it left Peyton Skipwith feeling unsatisfied.

From: Apollo | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Skipwith, Peyton | Copyright information

'Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec' at Tate Britain is good in parts but not a totally satisfactory exhibition. For a start, its title is misleading. The exhibition contains, of course, excellent examples by each of the three masthead figures, but they represent only one strand of a much more ambitious but ill-defined text, or rather series of subtexts. There are at least four, if not five, strands running through the show, each of which would make an excellent stand-alone exhibi...

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