Euan Uglow (1932-2000) was one of the finest painters of his generation. For a long time appreciated only by fellow artists and a relatively small band of devoted collectors, his work is now reaching a wider audience, and its innovative nature is finally being recognised and properly understood. He belongs with the best of twentieth-century British artists: with Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff. As a radical...