In this episode, art historian and curator David Boyd Haycock describes Roger Fry’’s legendary exhibition, Manet and the Post Impressionists held at the Grafton Galleries in 1910. In her essay Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown, Virginia Woolf wrote that on or about 1910, “human character changed”, a statement generally accepted to be a reference to the Post Impressionists show.

Further Reading:

A Crisis of Brilliance by David Boyd Haycock

Roger Fry, an autobiography by Virginia Woolf

The Sultan of Zanzibar by Martyn Downer about the spectacular hoaxes of Horace de Vere Cole, including the Dreadnought Hoax of 1910.

Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown - an essay by Virginia Woolf

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