Art crossword with easyish cryptic clues
by Eddie James
(Originally published by Artists & Illustrators magazine in March 2000 and sponsored by Daler-Rowney)

Across

Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)
Cherry red cries out to a point (6)
Roughly shade in around circle - it's what holds things together (8)
10/15/4 Many a famous person has been framed here! (8,8,7)
11 Elaborately got up: awful reds and scarlet and yellow initially (6)
12 Picture fillet holds spare ink cartridge (6)
13 Yellowish-brown, very cold, topless figure! (3,5)
14 His naps possibly reveal what Dali was! (7)
16 After start of century, Maud, I'm mixing a yellow pigment (7)
20 Alcohol-free tip required for this engraving technique using needle (3-5)
23 It lets some fresh air into the Paris gallery? (6)
25 Highly decorated but a little forlorn atelier (6)
26 Fair embarrassed by this pale colour? (5,3)
27 Number holding fashionable statuette (8)
28 French master giving RI? - er, no (6)
29 Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

Down

Ruin a picture – by removing a portrait’s main feature? (6)
Little Violet right to go to India possibly for this blueish-green (8)
This great portraitist mixed only reds (8)
See 10 Across
Publicity in exhibition leads to gloom (6)
Regret in this manner, we hear, the French primitive painter (8)
Vapour trapped in paste amethyst (5)
15 See 10 Across
17 Symbolic representation often used in Renaissance art means nothing in gallery, possibly (8)
18 Getting on your high horse about what sets off a watercolour? (8)
19 Artist’s workshop – E. Lear bowled over with it (7)
21 Ornamental tablet on monument etc. can be hard to remove (6)
22 One sort of Ribes is candytuft (6)
24 Awful tree I'd do a cut and paste job on again! (2-4)

Solution
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