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1977
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3b Hyde square, Hyde Park,
Sandton, Transvaal
2196 South Africa
update 27-Feb-2022
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I am writing this card in the New Sacristy (San Lorenzo). Certainly one of the most beautiful interiors in the
world. One cannot imagine how wonderfully it has been designed: there can be no other place like this in
Europe. Florence is lovely. Four days of real joy.
Wim Blom a postcard to Oliver Knight, September 27, 1949
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I
am
sitting
in
the
church
of
San
Salvatore.
Possibly
it
has
the
most
successful
interior
of
Venetian
churches,
with
its
beautiful
grey
stone
work
against
white
walls.
Every
so
often
I
glance
towards
Titian’s
dark
Annunciation
in
its
side
chapel.
On
this
day
I
can
say
I
have
visited
every
church
in
Venice,
except
one
which
is
always
closed
why?
No
one
knows.
My
mind
is
like
a
jumbled
storeroom
with
confused
impressions
of
paintings.
Some
of
the
best
have
left
indelible
traces,
but
it
is no longer important to remember in which churches they are.
Wim Blom Journal Venice October 2, 1966
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The following pages are dedicated to some of Wim Blom’s earlier paintings
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Florence Italy, Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore water colour and oil painted in 1955
