Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
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William Nicholson lived at Harlech in North Wales towards the end of the First World War. This view looks across Tremadoc Bay to the mountains on the Lleyn Peninsula; Nicholson painted the view by moonlight after rain.
Up to 1938, Adrian Allinson usually spent part of each spring and summer in the Mediterranean. This landscape is most likely Ibiza. Allinson would make initial sketches in situ, and then each winter, he painted the scenes at his north London studio.
A Man Docking his Boat (1878) is one of several scenes Gustave Caillebotte painted along the River Yerres. The tilted perspective is characteristic of many of his compositions, in which he employs a low vantage point to frame the water.
'Baron H.H. Thyssen-Bornemisza.'
Lucian Freud said his idea of portraiture came from portraits that resembled people. I wish my portraits to be of people, not like them.' It was Cedric Morris who taught Freud a portrait should be 'revealing in a way that was almost improper.'
Elioth Gruner's paintings from the era of the First World War reveal the influence of Whistler in his ability to capture the ephemeral effects of light and heat, beautifully depicted in this painting of a day at Bondi Beach, Sydney from 1915.
'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to a puree.
Working in 1920s Berlin, Lotte Laserstein stakes a claim for a position in the art-historical canon with her 'Self-portrait with a Cat,' (1928) which shows her at her easel, hair cropped, androgynous-looking and holding a very patient feline.
Walter Sickert's 'Noctes Ambrosianae,' (1906) holds a pun. Ambrosian Nights: ambrosia is the food of the gods; 'the gods' is the nickname for a theatre's gallery, the high place where the cheap tickets are, where the impecunious, sit.
I highly recommend going along to the Garden Museum's superb exhibition of Cedric Morris and some of his circle including Lucian Freud. 'Ratatouille,' was painted in 1954 and is on loan from the Philip Mould Gallery.
'A Château in France.' (1914) In his lifetime Patrick William Adam was an influential painter; a founding member with John Lavery of the Society of Eight, a group which also included the Scottish colourist Francis Cadell who found Adam's interiors a great influence upon his own.
