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    A Life Curated

    Jan 06, 2021 4 minutes

    Halfway through a tour of his Brighton apartment, Simon Martin’s gaze alights on the watercolour above the chimneypiece. It is a 1940s conversation piece by the British artist JS Goodall. Simon found the painting at a local market and, intrigued by the inscription on the back, decided to do some digging. This led him to discover that one of the sitters is probably Jack Sprott, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, whose bohemian circle included Lytton Strachey and EM Forster.

    This is the sort of detective work Simon enjoys. As Director of Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, he has acquired a reputation for exploring the lesser-trodden reaches of the art world through exhibitions of overlooked 20th-century British artists. Exhibitions of work by John Minton,

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