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Thomas Girtin and the Art of Watercolour
From july 4 to september 29 2002
Ancient art
Graphic art
Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) was one of Britain's greatest landscape painters. In a tragically short career, he produced a string of powerful watercolours. His contemporay JMW Turner wrote of Girtin : « If Tom had lived I should have starved ».