Andrew Lambirth

Alan Sorrell, oddly original and shamefully neglected (till now)

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‘Processing the Catch, Wharf Scene, Iceland’, c.1935, by Alan Sorrell [Getty Images/iStock/Shutterstock/Alamy]

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