OUT AND ABOUT June and July
FAIR NEWS
Antiques and fine art lovers have some treats in store this summer with the return of two milestone London fairs
London Art Week
Taking place in galleries and online from July 3-8, London Art Week (LAW) takes visitors on a dizzying tour of the capital’s finest art galleries. With this year’s theme of ‘music and dance’, the New Bond Street gallery, Raccanello Leprince, is showing a 16th-century, tin-glazed earthenware majolica dish with a putto playing a lira da braccio, attributed to the workshop of Pietro Bergantini, Faenza. Other galleries taking part include new exhibitor Miles Wynn Cato, as well as returning exhibitors Moretti; Rountree Tryon Gallery and Stuart Lochhead Sculpture, all in St James’s. A special performance by the Philharmonia Orchestra on July 3 in Cromwell Place kickstarts the proceedings. Above Music is the theme of this July’s event, as reflected in the putto playing
a lire on this majolica plate
Masterpiece, London
Art & Antiques Fair Olympia
After a two-year break the Art & Antiques Fair Olympia returns to West Kensington from June 22-26. Fair director, Mary Claire Boyd, said: “With fewer London art and antique fairs following the pandemic, Olympia offers one of the few remaining opportunities for art and antique collectors and connoisseurs to explore a treasure trove of items.” The event, which welcomes back more than 120 high-end dealers, runs alongside the Spirit of Summer fair which sees dozens of independent interiors boutiques joining them at a parallel event at Olympia Exhibition Centre. Prices at the antiques fair range from £100 to hundreds of thousands. For more information on the event go to www.olympia-art-antiques.com Above A mantel clock on offer at the 2019 event
The Pavilions of Harrogate
An 1838 silver teapot is one of the attractions at the Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative Antiques & Fine Art Fair from June 10-12. On offer from silver dealer Mike Wilson from Highland Antiques, priced £2,995, the teapot came from the York silversmiths James Barber & William North. Other highlights at the event, at the Great Yorkshire Showground, include a painting by Harrogate artist Brian Shields (1951-1997), also known as Braaq, titled I’ll bring my own boat then! on sale from Rowles Fine Art. Above Mike Wilson with a rare York teapot by James Barber & William North,
dated 1838
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Four days after Art & Antiques Olympia shuts up shop, the doors open on Masterpiece London – marking the landmark fair’s first physical event since 2019. Taking place at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, more than 120 galleries and dealers attend the event from June 30-July 6. This year the fair overlaps with TEFAF Maastricht, which moved from its usual March date to June 25-30. In addition to the galleries at the fair, two monumental light installations by artist Anila Agha (represented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery) will be on display at the gala’s columned entrance. Above A primitive elm and oak Georgian vernacular wingback armchair, with
an enclosed panel back, c. 1780, on offer from Robert Young Antiques Below The London fair returns for the first time since 2019
