Category: Art

The Gaumont

The Cadogan Estate has done its magic on Sloane Street turning it into a shopping boulevard with wider pavements and more greenery. It has already transformed the Duke of York barracks site into a pedestrian precinct with restaurants. Now it is moving west along the King’s Road.

Pictures at an Exhibition

This is a self-portrait in pastel of my great grandmother, Ada Gilbey. She died while giving birth to my great-aunt, aged thirty. Like many Victorian ladies she was a competent artist.

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Edward Burra at Tate Britain

As I was saying, artists often study the work of their predecessors and pay them homage: Faces at an Exhibition.

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Millet

You know the name, you know he is a 19th century French artist but like me you may be unfamiliar with his work.

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The Barber in London

The Courtauld is one of my favourite London galleries but familiarity can breed ennui. I went again yesterday knowing what to expect but I was in for a surprise.

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Faces at an Exhibition

It used to be called the BP Portrait Award, open to British artists under forty. Lucy Willis won in 1992.

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Hone, Piper and Barillet

The oldest building in Wellingborough is All Hallows, Grade I Listed, dating from 1160. I was in Northamptonshire again this week to see the 20th century windows at All Hallows.

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Evie Hone Stained Glass

Although there are examples of Evie Hone’s pictures in galleries including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Hugh Lane Gallery, and the Tate Gallery, she and Mainie Jellett are not widely known as artists outside Ireland.

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Evie Hone Pictures

Evie Hone’s abstract paintings owe much to her mentor, Albert Gleizes, and I was disappointed not to see this demonstrated in the Jellett/Hone exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland.

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