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The tragedy of Saatchi's triumph From a review of Charles Saatchi's 'Triumph of Painting' at the The Saatchi Gallery, 2005 Stephen Conroy and his acolytes deserve to be included in any exhibition that sets out to prove that figurative art obstinately refused to fade away even in the worst decades of state-funded oppression; Michael Leonard merits a nod of respect for his dogged devotion to the nude; Nicholas Williams has for years plodded a lonely symbolist path in the far South-West; and Paul Read should be acknowledged as the most remarkable young painter of mythologies. |