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Death of Alastair Laing
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- Alastair Laing (1944-2024)
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5/7/24 - Obituary - For lovers of 18th-century France, the first days of summer were overshadowed by the news that the great art historian Alastair Laing had died in his eightieth year. A Francophile British scholar who was discreet, Laing was universally respected and appreciated from Paris to London, where he was a favourite guest at the Travellers, prompting Neil Jeffares to borrow a phrase from him: "he was in every sense clubbable". Until the evening of his life, Alastair Laing continued his research on François Boucher, of whom he was the great specialist and to whom he dedicated his energy and passion, working on the prolific graphic work of the man to whom his name will remain…
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