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For the modernist Dorothy Braund (1926 – 2013), simplicity was key: “There is no chance for accidental effects… If you are simple everything has to relate and work”, she once remarked. Her work is a testament to this ethos – strikingly original and sophisticated compositions that are more musical than literal, hymns about people, places and activities.

In this collection of her work, there are scenes from the beach, ballet studio, parties and still lifes. Braund found inspiration everywhere she looked – in bodies warming by the water, gyrating jeans on the dance floor and a pair of discarded …