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It's a tricky task to show the influence of genre-defining European paintings on Scottish artists, but worth it for the chance to see a Degas masterpiece, writes Moira Jeffrey
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Cotton, Steel, Sugar...And Absinthe
IT WAS the one that got away. Among the very fine French and Scottish pictures - and those of a far more workaday nature - on show on The Mound this summer is a real gem: Degas's Dans Un Cafe: L'Absinthe. It once hung in the office of Glasgow drapery tycoon, Arthur Kay; these days you...
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