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Richard Dadd’s Strange and Delicate Worlds

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Richard Dadd’s Strange and Delicate Worlds
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LONDON — Most British viewers know Richard Dadd from “The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke,” replete with its controlled chaos of subject matter and unavoidable depiction of a man suffering from mental illness. The diminutively scaled work, now in Tate Britain’s permanent collection and on view at the Royal Academy of Art’s retrospective exhibition, Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam, was painted between 1855 and 1864 and worked over repeatedly for nearly a decade

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