"A work of art is a work of art, and nothing else, personal considerations count for nothing."
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E M Forster -0bituary of Roger Fry ,1940 ,'Biography of RogerFry'by Virginia Wolf , Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York 1940.
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Roger Fry
Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 β 9 September 1936) was an English painter and art critic.
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