The choices of Sawers and Dame Anna Pringle, our woman
in Moscow, are much stronger as art: Walter Sickert, Heath, some bittersweet
space - race
Pop by Derek Boshier and Bridget Riley's
beautiful Reflection, bought for the British embassy
in Cairo partly because her sheaf of stripes was inspired by the colours of tomb walls
in Upper Egypt, but also because the abstraction dovetailed felicitously with Muslim culture.