Jonathan’s News
We had a very successful Treasure House art fair. The second year much improved on last year. We sold a number of Modern British paintings from William Scott to Patrick Heron. The footfall was excellent and interest in this new fair is growing.
Earlier in the summer we staged a Lowry show of ten art works, dating from 1955 to 1971, which proved successful. The exhibition included Promenade and A street, both with connections to the North East of England, where Lowry made frequent visits from 1960. Study of people and animals, a delightful work on paper, was another highlight, previously owned by the Baftawinning actor, Peter Barkworth.
The summer months in London usually prove rather slow, however this year with the Olympics in Paris, a number of American clients stopped off in London on their way home and we were very pleased to welcome them into our gallery here on Bond Street.
Van Gogh Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery, London
We are so fortunate to have the National Gallery in London, which celebrates its 200th birthday this year. Vincent van Gogh’s extraordinary imagination is displayed in all its glory in the exhibition Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery until 19th January 2025. It charts his final years in Arles and Saint-Rémy and includes sixty-one masterpieces including Starry night over the Rhône, 1888 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris) and the gallery’s own Sunflowers, 1888. It’s a must-see, over and over. We may never see an exhibition like this again.
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
Vincent van Gogh
Starry night over the Rhône , 1888 Oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Donation of Mr and Mrs Robert Kahn-Sriber, in memory of Mr and Mrs Fernand Moch, 1975
/ Hervé Lewandowski.
LS Lowry, Promenade , 1965
Photo © Grand Palais RMN (musée d’Orsay)
Recent Loans to Exhibitions
Over seven decades, over eighty museums and art institutions worldwide have acquired paintings from Richard Green. We are always delighted to be asked to lend paintings to temporary exhibitions, or to facilitate loans from our clients. Such shows are culturally enriching and add to the sum of knowledge that makes our field so exciting.
Generously lent by one of our clients, Jan Davidsz. de Heem’s Still life with apricots on a pewter plate, a cut lemon and other fruit, with a rummer of white wine and a Venetian-style wine glass on a table, 1652, was one of the highlights of Opulence Distilled: Still Lifes by Jan Davidsz. de Heem at the Snijders&Rockox House museum in Antwerp. De Heem was one of the most influential still-life and flower painters of the seventeenth century, dividing his career between the Northern and Southern Netherlands. In 1652 de Heem was living in Antwerp, where he produced a number of his finest still lifes of fruit. This work has a balance
We were delighted to assist the Château de Versailles, whose exhibition, Horse in Majesty – At the Heart of a Civilisation, opened to coincide with the equestrian events at the Paris Olympic Games, with the loan of Cheval noir au palmier by Alfred de Dreux (until 3rd November). The exhibition includes nearly 300 exceptional works on loan from all over the world, highlighting the roles and uses of horses in civil and military society, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, up to the eve of the First World War. Alfred de Dreux was born in France, the son of an architect and greatly influenced by Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), who was a close friend of his uncle, the painter DedreuxDorcey. In 1840 he began his celebrated series of portraits of horses from the famous stables of the Duc d’Orléans.
https://en.chateauversailles.fr
of restraint and opulence, as well as a richness of colour, that reflects Flemish taste. It was on view in the atmospheric setting of the house belonging to Nicolaas Rockox (1660-1640), Burgomaster of Antwerp and friend of Rubens, both of whom de Heem probably knew. Organised by Dr Fred G Meijer, the exhibition coincided with the publication of his magnificent catalogue raisonné of the work of Jan Davidsz. de Heem.
https://www.snijdersrockoxhuis.be
Alfred de Dreux , Cheval noir au palmier. Private collection.
Jan Davidsz. de Heem , Still life with apricots on a pewter plate, a cut lemon and other fruit, with a rummer of white wine and a Venetian-style wine glass on a table , 1652, oil on panel. Private collection, Europe.
We also recently arranged the loan of Patrick Heron’s The Jardinière : 1948 to Matthew Smith: Through the eyes of Patrick Heron at Charleston in Lewes, which explores the work of two celebrated colourists and giants of British Modernism (until 13th October). Heron wrote in an article for the New Statesman in 1953 that he considered Smith ‘a master of colour…easily the most important English painter of his generation.’ Hailed as the British inheritor of Post-Impressionism, particularly the bold palette of the Fauves, Smith, a contemporary and friend of the Bloomsbury Group, was an inspiration for Heron, whose paintings share a spectacular use of colour to create both form and space. The Jardinière : 1948, belongs to a series of early interiors and windows by Heron, exploring the dynamic expression of pictorial space.
https://www.charleston.org.uk
Forthcoming fairs and exhibitions
We are currently preparing for Frieze Masters, with an exciting selection of Modern and PostWar British art, which includes Bryan Wynter’s masterpiece, Meeting place, 1957, previously in the collection of MOMA, New York and Patrick Caulfield’s Brown Jug, 1982, from an important private collection. An exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings will be on show at the same time at our 147 New Bond Street Gallery.
We look forward to holding an exhibition of new works by Britain’s greatest living free carver, Emily Young, next summer, but in the meantime, we are showing a new group of stunning torsos and heads at the gallery, including The Flowering Song of the Troubadour III, which features on the cover of her new monograph by Jon Wood, Emily Young: Stone Carvings and Paintings, published by Lund Humphries.
See our Frieze Masters preview here
Patrick Caulfield , Brown jug, 1982
Patrick Heron , The Jardinière : 1948
See our Impressionist and PostImpressionist Paintings catalogue here
See sculptures by Emily Young here
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Femme dans un paysage, Cagnes , circa 1905-10
Emily Young , The Flowering Song of the Troubadour III , 2021
