Results for “britain”

Case

The Conviction of Stass Paraskos

After a 1966 exhibition in Leeds, painter Stass Paraskos was prosecuted and convicted for obscenity — one of the last artists in Britain successfully charged under the old vagrancy statutes.

Person

Stass Paraskos

Cypriot-born British painter and teacher who, after a 1966 exhibition in Leeds, became one of the last artists convicted for obscenity under Britain's old vagrancy laws — a prosecution now seen as a milestone in the retreat of such statutes.

Artwork

The Blue Boy

Gainsborough's celebrated portrait, whose 1921 sale abroad caused a national outcry in Britain. Now at the Huntington in California.

Museum

Ashmolean Museum

Britain's oldest public museum, and the scene of a New Year's Eve 1999 theft of a Cézanne landscape.