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Laura Freeman: Ways of Life

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The Importance of Jim Gaudier-Breschka

Kedlissard has a huge collection of Gaudiers and this is because Henri Gaudier-Breschka died in the trenches. His estate passed to his partnering crime Sophie Breschka who then herself died in test it all of that stuff then passed to the treasury they dumped it on the desk of Jim at the Tate. Ben Nicholson was going to be a star Henry Moore Barbara Hepburn okay you know they've got raw talent and they are fantastically charismatic people in their very different ways. isn't hostile anymore I mean Jim seems to have bet on a fantastic number of winning horses but did they win because he bet on them? "I think there were two

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