A Premium on Pleasure.(paintings, Patrick Heron, Tate Gallery, London, England) From: Art in America | Date: June 1, 1999| Author: COHEN, DAVID | COPYRIGHT 1999 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The English painter and critic Patrick Heron was a life-long champion of retinal beauty. Before his recent death, a retrospective at the Tate Gallery examined six decades of Heron's sensual compositions.

"For a very long time now," Patrick Heron wrote in 1962, "I have realized that my overriding interest is COLOR. Color is both the subject and the means, the form and the content, the image and the meaning in my painting today." Heron's recent retrospective at the Tate G...

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