Skip to main content
Art and rivalry : the marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt

Art and rivalry : the marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt

Book 2019

"She painted as if with pure light, radiant colours making quotidian kitchen scenes come alive with sublimated drama. He painted like clockwork, each stroke precise and measured with exquisite care, leaving no angle unchecked and no subtlety of tone unattended. Some would say Mary Pratt was fire and Christopher, ice. And yet Newfoundland's Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (or Jackson Pollack and Lee Krasner ... ) presented their marriage as a portrai...