Avigdor Arikha, who died in Paris on April 29 aged 81, was one of the most interesting and accomplished of an internationally renowned group of figurative artists who dominated the latter decades of the 20th century, a

I first met R. B. Kitaj in the 1980s with his friends the artist John Golding, the historian James Joll and the philosopher Richard Wollheim. At home in such formidable intellectual company, Kitaj more than held his own in discussions about aesth

Who was the most technically adventurous artist of the 20th century? The obvious answer would be Picasso but a more accurate one would be Henry Moore. While both men fixated on the human body and both examined it in every medium, for sheer varie

High summer casts a dusty light over the city. I worked on the Mall on a couple of Sunday afternoons. I loved painting the flags — two-dimensional objects turned into three by the way they hung in folds. They were transferred ba