News 62 Art Market Susan Moore previews forthcoming fairs and reviews sales of imperial Chinese treasures and surreal art 68 Architecture Gavin Stamp on the 800th anniversary of Reims Cathedral, France 70 Collectors’ Focus Roger Field on the market for ancient armour 74 Around the Galleries By Monique Kent

Exhibitions 79 ‘The Immortal Alexander the Great’

by Richard Holledge 82 ‘The Return of Jurry’ by

Nicholas Hodge 84 ‘Ensor Revealed’ by Laura Gascoigne

Books 87 Off the Shelf 88 Cyndy Manton, Henry Wilson: Practical

Idealist, by Peter Cormack 90 William Laffan and Brendan Rooney,

Thomas Roberts: Landscape and Patronage in Eighteenth-century Ireland, by Toby Barnard 98 From the Archives Robert O’Byrne on the glacial perfection of Neoclassicism

Art Market: pp. 62–66

Pop Art: p. 82

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