What made British artist Gwen John carry out no fewer than eight
versions of the same painting - the subject of which was a
seventeenth-century French nun? John and her relationship with the
Roman Catholic Church are the focus of the first summer exhibition
at the Barber Institute in Birmingham, which opens on 4 July.
Reunited: Gwen John, Mere Poussepin and the Catholic
Church is the first exhibition to examine the spiritual
side of this reclusive, yet ...
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