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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle

Renaissance man: Anthony Hopkins's paintings come to the UK

Anthony Hopkins Art: Hopkins Art
When life imitates art ... Anthony Hopkins gets a foretaste of the painter's life in the title role of the 1996 film Surviving Picasso
Photograph: The Ronald Grant Archive
Anthony Hopkins Art: Hopkins Art
One of Hopkins's animal paintings – maybe a hint of Picasso in that primitivism?
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Anthony Hopkins Art: Hopkins Art
And surely there are traces of Picasso in these faces ... (we're not sure about the cat)
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Anthony Hopkins Art: Hopkins Art
A rural landscape at sunset
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Anthony Hopkins Art: Hopkins Art
Another calm, bucolic scene
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Anthony Hopkins Art: Hopkins Art
A portrait of a woman in garish colours
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Anthony Hopkins Art: Hopkins Art
Veering further towards the dark side ... another of Hopkins's faintly sinister figurative portraits
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Anthony Hopkins Art: Hopkins Art
... and another
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Anthony Hopkins Art: Hopkins Art
Simon Hattenstone says: 'This is more how I imagined Hopkins's work would be: restless, melancholy, haunting'
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Anthony Hopkins Art: Hopkins Art
Portrait of a woman
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Anthony Hopkins: Two be-hatted figures
Two be-hatted figures
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