curator, Simon Martin. On 24 October 2011, the BBC aired an hour-long documentary, I Never Tell Anybody Anything: The Life and Art of Edward Burra, in which the art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon chronicled the life of Burra. The documentary follows Burra from his native Rye to the Paris nightlife spots he loved and the jazz clubs of prohibition-era New York and the war-torn landscapes of the Spanish Civil War and back to England during the Blitz. It shows how Burra's increasingly disturbing and surreal work deepened and matured as he experienced at first hand some of the most tragic events of the century. Through letters and interviews with those who knew him, it presents a portrait of a highly unusual and gifted British artist. Exhibitions Solo exhibitions 1929, April – Leicester Galleries, London 1932, May – Leicester Galleries, London 1937, May – Springfield Museum of Art, Massachusetts, USA 1942, November – Redfern Gallery, London 1947, June – Leicester Galleries, London 1949, July – Leicester Galleries, London 1955, January – Magdalene Sothmann Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Retrospective) 1955, April – Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, USA 1956, October – Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA 1971, July – Treadwell Gallery, London (Woodcuts 1928-9) 1971, October – Hamet Gallery, London (Drawings of 1920s and 1930s) 1973, May – Tate Gallery, London (Retrospective) 1977, May – Lefevre Gallery, London (Memorial Retrospective Exhibition) 1977, October – Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, and tour to Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, and Sunderland Public Library 1980, March – Lefevre Gallery, London 1980, April – Anthony D'Offay, London (Early Works) 1982, April – Lefevre Gallery, London (Paintings 1975-6) 1985, August – Hayward Gallery, London, and subsequent tour 1986 – Maria Henderson Gallery, London (Designs for the Stage) 1987, November – Lefevre Gallery, London 1993, June – Lefevre Gallery, London (Drawings from the 1920s and 1930s) 1994, December – Lefevre Gallery, London (The Formative Years) 2001, February – Spring Olympia Fine Art & Antiques Fair, London 2003, January – James Hyman Fine Art, London (Edward Burra: Stage and Cabaret) 2005, April – James Hyman Fine Art, London (Edward Burra: Real and Surreal) 2005 – Lefevre Gallery, London (A Centenary Exhibition) 2008, January – Tate Britain, London (Selection of Harlem Pictures) 2011, October – Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, and subsequent tour to Djangoly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham In addition, from 1950 until his death, Burra held a show every