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BETTER late than never comes to mind, somewhat unhappily, when looking and Frank Bowling’s first major retrospective at Tate Britain.
Now 85, Bowling — Guyanese by birth — moved, aged 19, to Britain in 1953 and studied at the Royal College of Art. David Hockney and RB Kitaj were there too.
Comparisons are useless as all wash of him like water off a duck’s back.
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