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Radio 3,28 Mar 2014,15 mins

Series Finish the Bottle

Euan Uglow

The Essay

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What did the critic Martin Gayford make of an artist who confessed not to be able to finish a picture? One whose sitters were obliged to commit to several years of posing? Of a painter struggling to bend the naked body of a girl into the shape of the pyramids of Giza? Euan Uglow was an uncompromising and difficult artist. Martin recalls touring the painter's rambling London House-cum-studio on a boozy evening and learning more about the artist for whom precision and perfection were the driving forces.

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