Month: November 2011
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The Face of Courage. Eric Kennington, Portraiture and the Second World War
by Jonathan Black, London, 2011, ISBN 978-0-85667-705-2 (and exhibition at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon June 2011 – June 2012)Published in the British Art Journal, Volume XII No. 2, Autumn 2011 The title of the book must, I think, represent Eric Kennington’s ambition in many of these portraits – to display the physical attributes…
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John Piper in the 1930s. ‘Abstraction on the Beach’.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London,1 April to 22 June 2003; the Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, July to 7 September 2003.Catalogue edited by David Fraser Jenkins and Frances Spalding, 192pp, published by Merrell Publishers in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery, London £29.95, ISBN 1 85894 223 3Published in the British Art Journal, IV, 2, Summer 2003 John Piper…
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The Journals by Josef Herman, edited by Nina Herman; Ceri Richards by Mel Gooding; Kenneth Rowntree by John Milner
The Journals by Josef Herman edited by Nina Herman, Peter Halban Press, London 2003, £25, ISBN 1870015 819Ceri Richards by Mel Gooding, Cameron & Hollis, Moffat, 2002, £39.95, ISBN 0-906506-20-4Kenneth Rowntree by John Milner, Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2002, £25, ISBN 0-85331-850-6Published in the British Art Journal, IV, 2, Summer 2003 Josef Herman was a Polish…
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Peter Watson,Richard Hamilton and Adrian Berg
In the early 1950’s, Peter Watson was heavily involved with the developing ICA. Although he was to die in 1956, he just had time to connect with one or two artists who are, or who were until very recently, still alive. An example was Richard Hamilton, who died not long ago. I spoke to him…
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Peter Watson and Robert Buhler
Help needed! Apparently Buhler painted Watson’s portrait. But where is it now? If anyone has any information about this or even an image of the picture, I should be very grateful to hear.
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Gore Vidal/Peter Watson
They met in Paris. If anybody reading this has a way of contacting Gore Vidal, please get in touch. I should like to know if he can remember anything about their meeting.
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Stanley Spencer in Rotterdam/Francis Bacon in the Hague
Went at the weekend to the Kunsthal in Rotterdam,where there is a splendid new Spencer show.There are a large number of Spencers on display and also an attempt to contextualise the work by including work by many other contemporary British artists.So it turns into a wider review of the British art scene of the period,particularly…
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Oliver Messel
Went to Christie’s for a Reception to mark the publication of a new book on Messel edited by his nephew, Thomas Messel. Oliver Messel was an important designer, slightly perhaps fallen from the public eye. This is therefore a timely moment to remind people who he was. He was one of those talented people who…