William Gear RA is a special artist for us; not least because we have one of his paintings in our own collection. We bought his 1953 abstract, Black and Green Verticals, from the Fosse Gallery in February 2015. It is my Painting of the Month for November as we were reminded of Gear’s work on a recent…
George Seurat, Radical Harmony and The National Gallery.
Georges Seurat was a giant in the modern history of European Art. A superb draughtsman, he was instrumental in bringing the curtain down on Impressionism and introducing new ways of thinking about painting using scientific calculation. He studied colour and instead of combining paint to produce different hues and tones he used pure colour and…
Maurice de Vlaminck, The Fauve at Chartres
Chartres is a city, some sixty miles west of Paris, that we have visited a number of times and we were there again this summer. It is a busy vibrant place and known the world over for its magnificent gothic cathedral, Notre Dame de Chartres. Like many buildings of the time its predecessor was consumed…
Gustav Klimt and the Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer
The Art World is excited by the prospects of a once in a generation sale this autumn. Sothebys in New York are offering 24 works from the collection of Leonard Lauder, who died earlier this year in Manhattan. Lauder, billionaire, philanthropist and art collector was CEO of the Estée Lauder group of companies until 1999,…
Confluence by Nick Andrews in Salisbury
Salisbury as you will know from previous posts is a favourite city of mine. I am normally drawn to the great medieval buildings such as the Cathedral or the Church of St Thomas a Becket. However on a recent visit I found Fisherton Mill, a local arts centre and a delicious exhibition of Nick Andrews…
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