Saturated with innuendo: detail from Edward Burra’s John Deth (Hommage to Conrad Aiken), 1931 - The estate of Edward Burra, courtesy Lefevre Fine Art Tate Britain’s latest offer? Two exhibitions for ...

And it’s not about trying desperately to come up with a new angle; it’s about bringing the artist alive in a new way to a new audience that isn’t patronising or self-indulgent. As this is telly and ...

Edward Burra Minuit Chanson 1931 (Image: Private Collection © The estate of Edward Burra, courtesy Lefevre Fine Art, London/Bridgeman Images) A top art curator has ...

Edward Burra has never found a secure or simple place in the history of 20th-century art, and as a consequence, many have found it convenient simply to leave him out. In his own time, he was ...

Christie's presents its Modern British and Irish Art Sales as part of its flagship 20th/21st Century Art auction series.

Is this a safe space to share how much I loathe the blockbuster art exhibition? Overcrowded galleries full of gawpers taking photos of famous paintings, with no room to engage with an artist’s life’s ...

WHILE his contemporaries in the art world preoccupied themselves with chocolate-box landscapes Edward Burra delighted in depictions of “sin flaunting with a painted grin” in seedy urban ghettos. WHILE ...

Winter: Burra was painting people while his contemporaries were obsessed with the avant-garde 'Edward Burra: 20th Century Eye' by Jane Stevenson offers magnificent insight into the talented painter's ...

In January 1934, a young English painter called Edward Burra sailed for New York. As so often in his life, he was looking for an escape. Trapped inside a prematurely aged body, crippled by a ...