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St Ives and the International Avant-Garde Opens at Tate

Maggi Hambling painter and sculptor, and creator of the controversial Aldeburgh Scallop has been awarded a CBE - Courtesy of The Tate Collection

CORNWALL,
UK –
Post-Second World War art in St Ives
is the starting point for this new display, exploring some of the common

characteristics of Modern Art and the shared visual language of artists
working
in Europe and America from the 1930s to the late 1970s. Drawing on key
British
and international works in the Tate Collection, this is the largest and
most
extensive Collection display at Tate St Ives for over ten years.
Highlights
include important works by British and international artists such as
Mark
Rothko, Carl Andre, Maggi Hambling, Willem de Kooning, Barbara Hepworth,
Sol
LeWitt, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Sandra Blow, Jackson Pollock and
Peter
Lanyon. On view through 26 September.