«This story is a great example of how, inthe course of carrying out your duties, you end up with peculiar people in youroffices.Some four years into office, aconstituent in his mid to
late fifties arrived at my Winchester surgery.
Anyone who saw the three exhibitions would have faced an interesting triangulation; the Matisses, like the light from a new star
arriving fifty years after the event, an ambitious
late career statement from a major Abstract Expressionist and a set of unconventionally configured canvases from a 30 year old star of the New York art scene.