Andrew Graham-Dixon: evaluation

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…I would argue for him. What’s your view now, because it’s decades since you wrote the book? Yes. No, that’s fair enough. I see the patterns by which the world values things. I don’t pay a great deal of attention to them unless I’m asked a question like that. I think, “Oh, gosh. Of course, this is what people think about,” and I don’t think about it. I just think about what they are. I think they’re such wonderful pictures. Eventually, they will be just as expensive as the pictures of Matisse or Vuillard or Bonnard or those other artists. Howard, I think, belongs within that tradition very much. He’s an unusual painter because he decides to extend and deepen a tradition that he has nothing to do with personally, nationally, or historically. He just becomes so fascinated by it. I’d probably add Degas to that, too. Indian miniatures, right, which he collected.…

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