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32 Artists & IllustratorsMASTERCLASSMERAUD GUEVARA, SEATED WOMANWITH SMALL DOGI’ve always felt the work of British/Irish painter MeraudGuevara has a habit of getting lost beneath the weight ofthe famous names that surrounded her during her lifetime.A member of the Guinness family dynasty, she rolled ingrand circles, and once fell for painter Christopher Wood.Meraud was accused of using painting to feed her ego –‘why does she paint, when she is so rich?’ – but, in reality,she was a skilled portraitist, capturing female disquiet withgreat subtlety and skill. Seated Woman with Small Dognever fails to draw me in with its warped sense ofperspective, and the power of the subject who appears sodisinterested in the viewer, staring into the middledistance, wondering what we could possibly be looking for.``````WASSILY KANDINSKY, COSSACKSKandinsky worked consistently in watercolour during[the Cossacks] period and its fluidity was translatedhere into oils. Monet’s late landscapes were aninspiration in this respect. Speed was one of the waysin which Kandinsky sought to break with representation.He felt that it was important for abstract works toconvey meaning – hence his theories of how colour andform provoke emotion – to avoid becoming decorative.Cossacks was the first abstract work to enter the Tatecollection, 25 years after it was made, when it wasdonated by collector Hazel McKinley. For a numberof years it remained one of the most innovative works inthe collection.``````WASSILY KANDINSKY, COSSACKS 1910-1, OIL PAINT ON CANVAS, 95X130CM FRAME, TATE. PRESENTED BY MRS HAZEL MCKINLEY 1938``````TATE. PRESENTED BY SALANDER GALLERIES NEW YORK 1979, © ESTATE OF MERAUD GUEVARASEATED WOMAN WITH SMALL DOG C.1939, OIL PAINT AND GRAPHITE ON CANVAS, 89X65CM28 Tate's Greatest Hits.indd 32 08/06/2016 12:51