I wonder if Eduardo Paolozzi and Paula Rego ever met. They were born only eleven years apart, Paolozzi in Leith (in 1924), Edinburgh, of Italian parents, and Rego in Lisbon Portugal in1935. Both brought new bold, but different, dynamics into British art, Paolozzi’s work being very masculine and Rego’s focussed on feminist themes. What discussions […]
You’ve probably not heard of Frank Bowling, though Hales Gallery in Shoreditch does exhibit his work quite frequently. Born in Guyana some 85 years ago, he still paints in his London studio every day, continuing his lifelong experimentation with paint. Somehow, he has failed to achieve the recognition that his cotemporaries such as David Hockney […]
Two Grecian temples which epitomise the Athens of the North are the Royal Scottish Acadrmy and the National Gallery, with a third, albeit incomplete, nearby Calton Hill in Edinburgh. Architectual masterpieces where Edinburgh’s Old Town and New Town come together, designed by Henry William Playfair in the early 19th century, they left a problem of […]
Twisting, curving, sculptural abstractions made from steel. If you look through the rooflights of the 4th floor gallery of the Annely Juda Fine Art Gallery in Mayfair, you can make out the silhouette of the crane which lifts art from the street below and drops it (carefully) into the gallery below; they definitely needed it […]
The sculptor Henry Moore and his family moved to a rented property in Perry Green in Hertfordshire in 1940 after their home in London had been bombed. They enjoyed the environment so much that what was expected to a temporary move became permanent and, with the sale of a sculpture to an American collector (astonishingly […]
It’s a week of modern British art in London with Bonham’s, Sotheby’s and Christie’s all having sales of British art, along with Irish art at Bonham’s and Christie’s. Works for sale include many well-known artists from over the last century, some still active, including L.S. Lowry, Eduardo Paolozzi,, David Hockney, Lynn Chadwick, Elizabeth Frink, Terry […]
Celebrating the best collections of British modern art: Sussex comes to London. In 1916, the Bloomsbury Group established an outpost in Sussex when Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant moved to Charleston near Lewes, with Virginia Woolf and her husband taking over the nearby Monk’s House in 1919 and, a little later, Lee Miller and Roland […]
Intrepid explorers have their guidebooks and maps in their hands as they explore the darkest corners of Fortnum and Masons in Piccadilly, London. From the cells of Reading Prison to the luxury of Fortnum and Mason – two very different locations for art exhibitions, with two different set of artists. In 1844, when Reading Prison […]
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