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Gwen John: The

BBC News 07 Feb 2026
On her 150th birthday, a new exhibition reveals the full power of the once-overshadowed painter. .
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Go deep into Freud, follow Gwen John home and watch Giacometti melt – the week ...

The Guardian 06 Feb 2026
The master portraitist’s process is spelled out, Cardiff celebrates the great Gwen, ...
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Go deep into Freud, follow Gwen John home and watch Giacometti melt – the week in art

The Observer 06 Feb 2026
Exhibition of the Week. Dig deep into the vision of this great artist with an exhibition that follows his portrait process from paper to canvas. National Portrait Gallery, London, from 12 February to 4 May. Also showing ... Read the review ... Photograph ... Share.
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Gwen John: Strange Beauties review – Wales’s great modern artist stuns us with the glory ...

The Guardian 05 Feb 2026
National Museum, Cardiff. In a superb, mystical retrospective, the painter sheds social trappings – and her clothes – as she uses her enormous intelligence to paint purely. This is Gwen John straight, no chaser ... ....
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Gwen John: Strange Beauties review – Wales’s great modern artist stuns us with the glory of solitude

The Observer 05 Feb 2026
This is Gwen John straight, no chaser ... Portraits of John’s friend Dorelia on their first trip together to France are already pared down, purified, mystical ... But in its emotional power, the art of Gwen John is enormous, heavy, even crushing ... Gwen John.
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What do Oscar Wilde, Gwen John and Evelyn Waugh have in common?

The Spectator 11 Nov 2025
Among them were Oscar Wilde, who converted on his deathbed in 1900, after a long flirtation with the church; Gwen John, who converted when her ... Gwen John similarly came to Catholicism as an artist.
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