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From: art London Category: Art Date: 21 December 2008 Time: 11:27 AM Review: A trio of rooms with 80s brits, germans, italians, and americans. The customers leave it nice and quiet ignoring the now subtle looking figurative transavanguardia return of painting neo-figurative. Schnabels plate painting looks quiet contemplative and not too shabby. Lupertz grubby and good. The Italians a little bit sentimental. David Salle still not good. Outstanding and luminously time stoppingly fantastic is an Indian painting by Basquiat, fluid and not overworked, looks easy to pass and is exhibited in a dark corner, but Basquiat even prematurely lost, is perhaps the last really great painter we have had, his facility to weave patches and lines into figures is astonishing, and since then there has been noone who has painted with his convincingness.