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Duncan Hannah - Eccentric Painter

Dominique Gagneux

« The past is never dead. It's not even past. »
This famous line from the Faulkner novel, Requiem for a Nun, could be highlighted at every show of American painter Duncan Hannah. At first contact with the work and the man we are confronted with a style of studied anachronism—his painting seems so much to be an expression of memories--real or from books. Memories of atmospheres, landscapes or objects from a long lost world. It invites us on a nostalgic voyage, in search of lost time and gives rise to a feeling of being faced with …