Hampstead's heyday Belsize Park was the place for artists in the 1930s. SARAH JANE CHECKLAND describes how Ben Nicholson and his contemporaries made London the avant-garde capital

Evening Standard - London | June 21, 2000| | Copyright

ONE can hardly open a newspaper these days without being regaled with the merits of Hoxton, London's mecca for contemporary art. Back in the 1930s, however, Hampstead was the place to be, thanks to the presence there of the British abstract artists Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hep-worth and Henry Moore, not to mention the influx of brilliant refugees fleeing from the Nazi threat.

Thanks to their combined forces, London temporarily overtook Paris as the world centre for the avantgarde for the first time.

The main focal point for this remarkable state of affairs was Mall Studios, a row of ...

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