Suddenly Glyn Philpot – 100 years ago the darling of London society for his Veronese-style portraits of the rich and the titled – is again getting the attention he deserves.

When the Bloomsbury gallery Austin/Desmond Fine Art, long-standing exhibitors at the British Art Fair, decided to run a major retrospective covering seven decades of Sir Terry Frost’s printmaking practice, there was little doubt as to who might curate it.

Ramsay Fairs is delighted to announce that the company has purchased British Art Fair from Robert and Johnny Sandelson and this revered art fair will join their portfolio of art fairs with immediate effect …

‘There is no beauty except in strife, and no masterpiece without aggressiveness’, stated the painter, etcher and lithographer CRW Nevinson, in a 1915 interview in The Daily Express, illustrated by an image of the painting Returning to the Trenches, on which this 1916 drypoint print, of the same title, is based.

There was a push-me-pull-you tension about the British art scene between the two world wars, posits art historian Frances Spalding, in her fine new book The Real and the Romantic.