News 68 Art Market

Susan Moore previews Islamic Week in London and reviews ARCOmadrid 76 Collectors’ Focus

Emma Crichton-Miller on the market for Swiss paintings 78 Architecture

Gavin Stamp on timber structures 80 Around the Galleries

By Monique Kent Exhibitions 85 ‘Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York’ by Martin P. Levy 88 ‘Rubens and Britain’ by David Howarth 90 ‘Painting on Paper: Josef Albers in merica’ by Alexander Adams 92 ‘Picasso and Modern British Art’

by Corinna Lotz Books 95 Off the Shelf 96Pierre Rosenberg, Les dessins de la collection Mariette. École française, by Humphrey Wine 98 Helena Gerrish, Edwardian Country

Life: The Story of H. Avray Tipping, by Timothy Mowl 100 Frances Spalding, Prunella Clough:

Regions Unmapped, by Ian Collins 106 From the Archives

Robert O’Byrne on artists’ reputations and posterity

Josef Albers: pp. 90–91

Picasso and Modern British Art: pp. 92–93

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