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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
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(1971, Tate Gallery) Painting by David Hockney which is one of the most reproduced images of contemporary British art. It shows Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell, fashion designers at whose wedding Hockney was best man. The white cat on Ossie's lap, the detail which probably makes the painting so popular, is in bitter truth a fraud; she is Blanche, not Percy (Hockney changed her name to Percy, that of another cat owned by the Clarks, because he felt it sounded better in the title).
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