11-06-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com

Edward Burra / Ithell Colquhoun review – sex, jazz, war and the occult, all confusingly jumbled

Tate Britain, London
Colquhoun’s surrealism and Burra’s pro-fascist war paintings and Hogarthian scenes of Harlem nightlife are all brilliant. But they have nothing in common – so why handcuff them together?They make a truly odd couple. She’s an occultist who once appeared on BBC television explaining to the nation how to make surrealist art at home. He’s a jazz enthusiast whose slices of modern – and often queer - life are full of roly-poly grotesques. What o
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