11 02 2020

Last few days in Liverpool for Cecily's 100th. Whole event lovely but crowned with storm Ciara, nasty and hard to get home. Did better than some cousins who are stuck there.
Went to the Walker, the Renaissance pix are missing due to funding arriving to remake their galleries. The pix are dispersed and renovated. Bah. Nice Corbet, nice Duchess of Nemours.

 Fond of the Dutchess as she used to lie in my then parish church, St Charles Borromeo. It was built for her - the church - as a catholic exile from the french revolution and a relie of Queen Victoria;  Catholics weren't allowed churches in the UK. Exemption for the royals, of course.
In the day she lay in a side chapel and it was possible to attend mass and hide at the same time by getting in behind her. She was my friend.
How she ended up in the Walker is a mystery.

 Courbet...

and in the John Moores prizewinners section was this by Roger Hilton, Matts papa... lovely bit of stuff.No wonder Matt is so damn good.

And voila! A Kitaj I've never seen. Terrible photo, pity.

Morning spent cleaning studio and getting ready for whatever is going to happen next.