This autumn, Pallant House Gallery is giving you the rare opportunity to see Dame Paula Rego's preparatory drawings for her paintings, providing an insight into
her remarkable draughtsmanship and the development of her ideas.
Bringing together portraits from three decades, this exhibition shows the
remarkable range of characters that Neel portrayed in paintings that demonstrate a rare combination of painterliness and acute
draughtsmanship.
It seems to me that neither Newman, Rothko nor Pollock was possessed of
remarkable natural facility, yet each went on to achieve far more than, say, Adolf Gottlieb, William Baziotes or Robert Motherwell, whose adept and characterful
draughtsmanship and feel for their materials made the process of invention a less urgent and precipitous task.