‘Most paintings should have been burnt’: Augustus John’s granddaughter attacks artist’s later works
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Celebrated painter ‘went down the drain from the 1930s’, claims Rebecca John in a new interviewThe granddaughter of Augustus John, Britain’s most famous and successful artist of the early 20th century, has delivered a damning critique of his later works. Rebecca John, the leading authority on the artist, says in her first interview for two decades that “most should have been burned. My grandfather went down the drain from the 1930s onwards, drank too much, lost his judgment, and took every...

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