Sir Lawrence Gowing (1918–1991) began his career as a painter of portraits and landscapes, later becoming a distinguished curator, writer, professor of art and museum trustee, including at the Tate and British Museum. He was Keeper of the British Collection and Deputy Director of the Tate Gallery, London from 1965-67, Professor of Fine Art at the University of Leeds from 1967 to 1975 and Slade Professor of Fine Art at University College, London from 1975 until his retirement in 1985. A central figure in both the UK and USA art establishments, his writings include monographs on artists ranging from Vermeer and Turner to Cézanne and Freud.Sarah Whitfield is an art historian, writer and curator who has published widely on Surrealism, as well as on Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Lucio Fontana and other twentieth-century artists. She co-authored the catalogue raisonné of René Magritte and sits on the authentication committee of the Francis Bacon Estate.

• Preface · sarah whitfield 9Writers on ArtMonument of Criticism 27Mr Berenson’s Venice 29Berenson 33Mind the Paintwork 37History and Faith 42Spellbinder 47Art Before 1900Mantegna 55Brueghel’s World 61The Solemnity of Martyrs 85Roman Paroxysm 88Privacy and Pride 93An Artist in His Studio 97Forger Versus Critic 106Hogarth in Print: The Tyranny of Taste 113Hogarth Revisited 128Francisco Goya 144The Unfathomable Goya 153Turner: Imagination and Reality 157Turner’s Pictures of Nothing 197Confidence and Conscience in Two Centuries of Art 203Daumier at the Tate 215Impressionism and BeyondThe Great Transformation 221The Logic of Organised Sensations 234The Early Work of Cézanne 274Renoir’s Sentiment and Sense 301Matisse: The Harmony of Light 317Henri Matisse: Harmony in Red 352Teaching by Example 360In the Monkey Cage 363Living in the Present 366Objects-Lessons in Object-Love 370Cubist 375Paint in America 378British PaintingA Brilliant Game of Tip and Run 387Remembering Coldstream 390Positioning in Representation 406Francis Bacon: The Human Presence 417Howard Hodgkin 440The New Tate 447Index of Names 455

Sir Lawrence Gowing (1918–1991) began his career as a painter of portraits and landscapes, later becoming a distinguished curator, writer, professor of art and museum trustee, including at the Tate and British Museum. He was Keeper of the British Collection and Deputy Director of the Tate Gallery, London from 1965-67, Professor of Fine Art at the University of Leeds from 1967 to 1975 and Slade Professor of Fine Art at University College, London from 1975 until his retirement in 1985. A central figure in both the UK and USA art establishments, his writings include monographs on artists ranging from Vermeer and Turner to Cézanne and Freud.Sarah Whitfield is an art historian, writer and curator who has published widely on Surrealism, as well as on Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Lucio Fontana and other twentieth-century artists. She co-authored the catalogue raisonné of René Magritte and sits on the authentication committee of the Francis Bacon Estate.

• Preface · sarah whitfield 9Writers on ArtMonument of Criticism 27Mr Berenson’s Venice 29Berenson 33Mind the Paintwork 37History and Faith 42Spellbinder 47Art Before 1900Mantegna 55Brueghel’s World 61The Solemnity of Martyrs 85Roman Paroxysm 88Privacy and Pride 93An Artist in His Studio 97Forger Versus Critic 106Hogarth in Print: The Tyranny of Taste 113Hogarth Revisited 128Francisco Goya 144The Unfathomable Goya 153Turner: Imagination and Reality 157Turner’s Pictures of Nothing 197Confidence and Conscience in Two Centuries of Art 203Daumier at the Tate 215Impressionism and BeyondThe Great Transformation 221The Logic of Organised Sensations 234The Early Work of Cézanne 274Renoir’s Sentiment and Sense 301Matisse: The Harmony of Light 317Henri Matisse: Harmony in Red 352Teaching by Example 360In the Monkey Cage 363Living in the Present 366Objects-Lessons in Object-Love 370Cubist 375Paint in America 378British PaintingA Brilliant Game of Tip and Run 387Remembering Coldstream 390Positioning in Representation 406Francis Bacon: The Human Presence 417Howard Hodgkin 440The New Tate 447Index of Names 455