Martin Gayford

We’re wrong to think the impressionists were chocolate boxy

The star exhibit in a new exhibition at the Royal Academy is ‘Human Misery', a timely titled work by Gauguin

A detail from ‘Human Misery’, 1888, by Paul Gauguin. Bridgeman Images
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  • Gauguin and the Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection

    Royal Academy, until 18 October

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