Renaissance man: Anthony Hopkins's paintings come to the UK
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 ArchiveOne of Hopkins's animal paintings – maybe a hint of Picasso in that primitivism? Photograph: PRAnd surely there are traces of Picasso in these faces ... (we're not sure about the cat) Photograph: PR
A rural landscape at sunset Photograph: PRAnother calm, bucolic scene Photograph: PRA portrait of a woman in garish colours Photograph: PRVeering further towards the dark side ... another of Hopkins's faintly sinister figurative portraits Photograph: PR... and another Photograph: PRSimon Hattenstone says: 'This is more how I imagined Hopkins's work would be: restless, melancholy, haunting' Photograph: PRPortrait of a woman Photograph: PRTwo be-hatted figures Photograph: PR
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