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Somerset Maugham’s 150th Anniversary….

Posted: January 26th, 2024 | No Comments »

….is this week.

Graham Sutherland painted Maugham in 1949 at Cap Ferrat. The artist Gerald Kelly told Maugham ‘you look like the madam of a brothel in Shanghai’. Maugham’s reaction is not known. The portrait now resides the Tate Collection



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