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Two panels were entirely hidden under pen-and-ink sketches, Gouache landscapes and Audran engravings, relics of better times and vanished luxury.

In her recent exhibition "Stone Flesh," the Shanghai-based painter Hu Zi, widely recognized for her focus on portraiture, presented a quirky collision of mythologies with new oil paintings and sepia-toned gouaches based on Michelangelo's David, 1501-1504; Bartolomeo Ammannati's Fountain of Neptune, 1565-74; and other Renaissance sculptures, interspersed with and punctuated by paintings of David Gilmour, the British rock star and former lead guitarist of Pink Floyd.

Galerie Grand-Rue drops us At the Foot of Mount Vesuvius' (3 May-15 June) in an exhibition dedicated to Neapolitan gouaches, which range from the colourful vedute of Saverio della Gatta to dramatic visions of the volcano in action.

To see the originals, many of which are surprisingly small opaque watercolors (or gouaches) is to be dazzled by the painter's technique and the fact that he evidently worked without a magnifying glass.

A book of Dylan's drawings was published in 1994 and a first exhibition of his art, in Germany in 2007, featured more than 200 watercolours and gouaches (gouache being a watercolour paint with the consistency of oil paint).

"There is barely one medium or style he hasn't tapped into, starting with terracotta sculpture, reverse paintings in acrylic, gouaches, making puppets and even illustrating children's books," said Mini Menon, from Collage Communications, who collaborated with the Seagull Foundation For The Arts in India to bring the exhibition to the UAE.

As in the gouaches made by Sol Lewitt starting in the 1980s, the

A little-known experimental phase in 1948, the "Periode-Vache" represents the stage during which Magritte created paintings and gouaches that differed dramatically from his characteristic style.

Weise, an artist who lives outside Creswell, has nearly 30 works in the DIVA exhibit, including the pastels, some watercolors, a few gouaches and even some oil paintings, the latter a new direction for him.

Bearden's early work was mostly gouaches (opaque watercolors on brown paper).

Not content with looking at the living plants and distilling their essences in his alchemical laboratory, Francesco had Jacopo Ligozzi paint them in a series of stunning gouaches on paper.

Screen prints and gouaches by Bridget Riley created over the past four decades will be on display from June 18 to August 4.