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”Amid this year’s mixed bag of Frieze Week exhibitions, it was a single room of paintings by the late Bob Thompson that resuscitated my belief in art’s capacity to express something exuberant and sincerely felt, rather than hastily conceived or duplicitous. As I wrote in my October Critic’s Guide: ‘‘Measure of My Song’ will be a delight for painters, uniting six energetic works: four on canvas, one on board, and another on a concertina of what appear to be cabinet doors. He was an exceptional colourist – look at the purple that seeps through the eyehole of the white, mask-like face of the dog-like creature in Inferno (1963). Even 60 years on, these exquisite works remain among the most thrilling things I’ve seen in weeks: refreshingly unbridled, uncalculated and impassioned.’
Image Courtesy of Private Collection and Maximillian William © Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY. Photo: Ben Westoby / Fine Art Documentation
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