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Mark Hudson

Titian: The Last Days

Hay Festival 2010, Wednesday 2 June 2010

Towards the end of his life the artist didn’t finish his paintings. Created with the fingers as much as the brush, the last paintings are imbued with a sense of final desperate effort – a rawness and immediacy that weren’t to be seen again in art for centuries. How did it come to this? And what happened to the paintings?