04/10/2022
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Whitford Fine Art is one of London's leading international Art Galleries, specialising in French and British 20th Century paintings and sculpture, with an emphasis on Cubism, Modernism, British Post-War Abstraction and Pop Art. Founded in 1973 by Adrian Mibus and Louise Whitford, the gallery offers more than forty years of experience in art buying, selling and advising. Its clientele includes muse
ums and high profile private collectors. Whitford Fine Art participates in international art fairs in London and Brussels, and is a member of the Society of London Art Dealers. The Gallery offers services of valuation and curatorial advice and assistance in collection building and display. Gallery Personnel:
Adrian Mibus, Director
An Jo Fermon, Director
Francesca Charlton-Jones, Business & Gallery Manager
Operating as usual
25/09/2022
Fantastic Lacasse! Master of colour and light (1894- 1975).
07/09/2022
During 1956-59, Belgian-French artist Joseph Lacasse experimented with Styrofoam, which was first produced in 1947. As such Lacasse demonstrated his need for pushing artistic boundaries.
These works directly relate to Lacasse's experience of working at the Tournai stone mines as a child. It was here that he first discovered the prism of light when it appeared through the water whilst cutting the stone in the sunlight. This was to be Lacasse's lifelong source of inspiration for his Abstract oils which were much admired by Serge Poliakoff, who often visited Lacasse in his galerie l'Equipe in Paris. The gallery was a meeting place for young artists who defended the proletarian cause.
03/07/2022
A Sunday afternoon burst of colour to finish off the weekend at the ! 🎨
Artwork:
`Quadrichromie' (1974) by Joseph Lacasse.
02/07/2022
✨Today's highlight work is by Anglo-French artist Mildred Bendall (1891-1977) ✨
Influenced and befriended by none other than Henri Matisse, Bendall is a true colourist. She worked tirelessly to introduce and promote Abstraction to the intensely conservative Bordeaux art scene.
Bendall was a founding member of the 'Société des Artistes Indépendants' and Le Studio which was among one of the first studios to offer life drawing classes.
Featured work:
Reflections, c. 1960
Oil on paper laid on panel
51 x 33 cm
Signed with studio stamp verso
28/06/2022
Bye bye Brussels and hello London for the 2022 edition of ! 🖼️
This year we are showing a selection of 20th Century and Pop works of art from our represented artist estates and collections.
We look forward to welcoming you on our stand no. 515!
14/06/2022
✨Only a few days to go until Brafa!✨
A sneak peek of a few lovely little works we'll be bringing to the 67th edition of ...
Paul Van Hoeydonck (b. 1925)
PVH036 - Composition, 1958
Collage
47.5 x 47.5 cm
Clive Barker (b. 1940)
White Coke with Straw, 2019
Enamelled bronze
27 cm high; 5 cm diameter
Guy Vandenbranden (1926-2014)
Abstract Composition, c. 1973
Gouache
33 x 33 cm
14/05/2022
Last day over! Thank you so much for having us at . Such a pleasure to be surrounded by such exceptional art and people.
12/05/2022
Beautiful works in a beautiful space!
Open until Saturday 14th May, is a wonderful opportunity to see exceptional works in the intimate and striking historical setting of .
Paintings by Bram Bogart and Joseph Lacasse paired with gorgeous ceramics by Oriel Zinaburg offered by fellow exhibitor
06/05/2022
✨Whitford Fine Art is delighted to announce that we will be participating in next week from 12-14 May (11 May by invitation).✨
Set against the historic interior of , the core of our selected group of works will focus on British women artists Cissie Kean and Pauline Boty. Complementing these will be further works from our wonderful roster artists: Clive Barker, Reinhold Koehler, Joseph Lacasse and Bram Bogart.
We hope to see you there!
▪️See link in bio for more details on
Artworks:
Cissie Kean (1871-1961)
Childhood Memories, c. 1925
Oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm
Pauline Boty (1938-1966)
Golden N**e, 1959
Oil on paper laid on board
69 x 51 cm
Reinhold Koehler (1919-1970)
Raum-Feld-Korper, Contre-Collage, 1963
Paper, glass, glue and ink on canvas
73 x 50 cm
24/12/2021
By Pauline Boty !
17/12/2021
A dark and gloomy December evening absolutely needs a zing of vibrant colour! How better to achieve this than with a wonderfully energetic colourful print by British sculptor Jeff Lowe.
The result of a fruitful partnership between Lowe and the Cambridge Print Studio who have collaborated with artists such as Anthony Gormley, Peter Blake and Terry Frost, these monoprints and screenprints carefully engineered yet playful works.
'Floating Flats No.35', 2020
Signed and dated
Monoprint, Unique
50.5 x 71.5 cm
£ 750
▪ See link in bio for more details on this and other currently available unique and editioned prints by Jeff Lowe.
07/12/2021
✨NOW LIVE!✨ Whitford Fine Art is delighted to announce that our 2021 Online Winter Exhibition, CAZIEL x LURÇAT, showing a selection of works on paper by Polish artist Caziel (1906-1988) and ceramics by French artist Jean Lurçat (1892-1966) is live on our website, Artsy and Artnet platforms from the 7 December 2021 to 16 January 2022.
Despite differences of generation, style and medium, both Lurçat and Caziel were disciples of the ‘École de Paris’ and both arrived at personal styles of abstraction as optimistic and buoyant as the artistic current which was sweeping through Post-War 1950s Paris.
▪ For more details on the works in this exhibition visit our website www.whitfordfineart.com/exhibitions/ or visit us on our Artsy and Artnet pages!
Jean Lurçat
Dawn, c.1955
Signed ''J.L, Sant Vicens" verso
Glazed ceramic
24 cm diameter
Caziel
WC703 - Composition 51, 1951
Signed and dated lower right
Charcoal
48 x 63.3 cm
Jean Lurçat
Triton, c. 1955
Inscribed "Dessin J. Lurçat, Sant-Vicens, M.M" verso
Glazed ceramic
25.5 cm diameter
Caziel
WC702 - Geometric Composition, c. 1952
Signed with studio stamp lower right
Coloured chalk
65 x 33.5 cm
03/12/2021
Our Director working hard at the studio of wonderful photographer getting ready for our online Winter Exhibition: CAZIEL x LURÇAT. Featuring selected works on paper by Caziel and ceramics by Jean Lurçat from the 1950s, the exhibition goes live online at 5.30pm on Monday.
Watch this space!
11/11/2021
As the evenings get colder and the nights begin to draw in, there is no better time for an injection of colour! 🎨 We are delighted to announce that a select group of vibrant, unique monoprints and screenprints by British sculptor Jeff Lowe jefflowesculptor are now available on our website.
The result of a fruitful partnership with The Cambridge Print company over the past two years, each print is a carefully engineered yet playful work which is both striking and uplifting.
▪ Works priced from £300
▪ See our website for more details: https://www.whitfordfineart.com/store/artworks/
10/11/2021
The perfect colour palette for the season 🍂🍁
The latest artwork in our SPOTLIGHT feature is by British Abstract Expressionist Albert Irvin (1922-2015). The St Ives Group, and Peter Lanyon in particular, encouraged Irvin to leave behind his early sharp figurative style, suggesting he instead imbue the gesture - the very action of painting - with a fullness of experience and feeling and to consider this a thing unto itself.
But it was not until the 'The New American Painting' exhibition at the Tate in 1959 that Irvin would completely embrace his own unique abstract expressionist style. And so in the 1960s, he embarked on a period of intense experimentation and exploration to develop his own visual language. Early 1960s works such as this are testament to his successful translation of purely formal structures of painting into "pockets of experience".
Echoing Red, c. 1965
Oil on canvas
122.5 x 81.5 cm
Signed and titled verso
(detail)
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12/04/2021
✨ NOW OPEN! ✨ Our Spring 2021 exhibition BENDALL / BERNÈDE : A Story of Painting in Bordeaux is now available to view by appointment.
▪️Book a private view now by clicking the link in bio!
We look forward to welcoming you to this exhibition celebrating Mildred Bendall and Georges Bernède, an indomitable female artist and her most important student. Together, they would work tirelessly to forward the avant-garde in Bordeaux, an area of France notorious for its conservatism.
09/04/2021
✨ GETTING READY FOR MONDAY! ✨ Putting the finishing touches to our upcoming BENDALL / BERNÈDE exhibition with .
We are loving the contrast between Georges Bernède's highly dramatic, almost entirely monochromatic 'C048 - Composition 89' (1989) and orange tones in Mildred Bendall's exquisitely bright 'Vue de Collioure' (c. 1928) and fiery 'Tigerlilies' (c. 1928).
Viewings by appointment only.
See link in bio for more details and the online catalogue.
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06/04/2021
Coming soon: Bendall/Bernede exhibition.
Mildred Bendall was a pupil of Henri Matisse and in turn inspired the young Georges Bernede during the Second World War which she spent in the Zone Libre of France. An interesting story of a woman painter and her influence in Bordeaux.
03/04/2021
Wishing you a very Happy Easter from Whitford Fine Art with this charming watercolour by Anglo-French artist Mildred Bendall of the folkloric figure and symbol of Easter: the bunny rabbit!
Mildred Bendall (1891-1977)
Rabbits, c.1920
Watercolour
28 x 43 cm
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13/06/2020
Our Gallery at 6 Duke Street, St James's opens on Monday 15 June before we close our doors for good and go online on 30 June. Your last chance to see Joseph Lacasse, (1894-1975), FRAGMENTS OF LIGHT at our premises of 6 Duke Street.
To visit online click whitfordfineart.com/exhibitions/55/works/
#centrepompidou
01/06/2020
Visit our online show 'FRAGMENTS OF LIGHT' paintings by the unmistakable Joseph LACASSE
08/05/2020
Proud to announce the release of the film documentary on Fallen Astronaut by PAUL VAN HOEYDONCK by Frank Herrebout.
To view trailer or film see link in bio
This docu-film which our directors Adrian Mibus and An Jo Fermon co-produced depicts the compelling story of one of the most extraordinary achievements of the Space Age. For the first time in 50 years the artist consented to open up about this dramatic episode in his artistic career. What was to be a celebrated first human made artwork on the moon became a sour scandal.
Our gallery has supported the name of Van Hoeydonk since 1991.
22/04/2020
Derek Boshier, Study for painting 'Ludo', 1961, pencil and crayon on paper 14 x 14 cm.
Part of our current online exhibition of Post-War British Abstraction.
1961 is one of those seminal years in recent art history. It was the year when the British Pop Artists became household names when their work was collectively shown in the Young Contemporaries show. 'Ludo', being Latin for 'I play' is a known strategy board game introduced in 1896. As part of popular culture Derek Boshier gave it the status of art by painting it, but rendering it in green and yellow instead of habitual four colours of green, yellow, red and blue.
06/04/2020
When life was different! Brafa 2020 Klara Pompidou interviewing An Jo on the state of the London market.
Gisteren zond Pompidou live uit van op Brafa Art Fair, de kunst- en antiekbeurs die inmiddels aan haar 65ste editie toe is.
Nicky Aerts ging in gesprek met kunsthandelaars Christian Vroeyr, Samuel Vanhoegaerden, Klaas Muller en An Jo Fermon (Whitford Fine Art). Ze hadden het over BRAFA Art Fair, over enkele topstukken die te koop worden aangeboden en over de uitzonderlijke stiel van het handelen in kunst.
Herbeluister via klara.be, of via de Klara app! ✨🎧
06/04/2020
Brafa 2020 before Covid-19
When in Brussels, make sure to visit the international BRAFA Art Fair which celebrates its 65th edition this year. One of the 133 splendid galleries exhibiting is Whitford Fine Art from London who prominently features a wonderful mixed media work by Bram Bogart (1921-2012). 'Gebied' is from 1963 and an outright sculptural painting masterpiece of the Delft-born Belgian artist whose recognition is unprecedented.
Have a good look at it during BRAFA 2020 from 26 January - 2 February at Tour & Taxis Brussels.
06/04/2020
Visit our current show by opening the link: http://www.whitfordfineart.com/exhibitions
06/02/2020
Back at the gallery after Brafa, showing some Informal works by Bram Bogart. Open daily Monday-Friday 10 am - 5.30 pm.
24/10/2019
Last night at the opening of our Reinhold KOEHLER exhibition: director Adrian Mibus with the artist's daughter in front of a splendid glass decollage from the 1960s.
Reinhold KOEHLER (1919-1970) : New Realism, decollage and matter painting 1948-1970, open until 29 November at our gallery, 6 Duke Street, St James's, London. Fully illustrated catalogue researched by An Jo Fermon available.
19/10/2019
Excited to install our forthcoming show of rediscovered decollagist Reinhold KOEHLER (1919-1970).
Solo show at our gallery 24 Oct. - 29 Nov. Open Mon - Fri 10 am - 6pm
15/10/2019
Celebrating the presidency of Baron Michiels of the Walter Leblanc Foundation in Brussels.
We ❤️ Walter Leblanc
09/10/2019
Our yearly October show SHAPING MATTER includes works by Bram BOGART (Belgian, 1921-2012), Reinhold KOEHLER (German, 1919-1970 and Shlomo KOREN (Dutch- Israeli 1932-2013)Do visit our yearly exhibition SHAPING MATTER, open Mon-Fri 10 am-6pm, until 22 October showing works by Belgian matter painter Bram BOGART (1921-2012), Dutch- Israeli matter painter Shlomo KOREN (1932-2013), German newly discovered decollage artist Reinhold KOEHLER (1919-1970) and British Abstract expressionist Frank Avray WILSON (1914-2009), French Zero artist and master of fire Bernard AUBERTIN (1934-2015)
17/09/2019
Ready for the new season! Open daily 10 am - 6 pm Monday-Friday.
Terry FROST, glass Millennium Disc 2000; CAZIEL, Composition, 1967; Bernard AUBERTIN, Clous, 1963.
05/08/2019
Joseph Lacasse was born in this day in 1894 in Tournai, Belgium.
We are proud continue to represent the Lacasse Esstate and are looking forward to present his work at the Masterpiece Pavillion at Art Asia Hong Kong in October 2019.
04/08/2019
Sign of our times...Metropolitan Police needs to control fascists trying to counter demonstrate the anti-fascist March yesterday.
19/07/2019
Space History: Celebrating 50 years of first moonwalk! The only art work on the moon was commissioned by NASA to Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck. It was deposited on the moon by Apollo15 in 1971, and has been smiling at Paul who was born in 1925 but is still in excellent health and still active! A twinkling star! Keep up the good work Paul!
19/07/2019
Summer in London today is nowhere to be seen!
01/07/2019
Our in-house art historian An Jo Fermon in colour coordinated outfit to match Tachist painting by Joseph Lacasse
29/06/2019
Working during this sunny Saturday
17/05/2019
'Energy' 1959 entered the collection of TATE London.
Our current show "BRITISH ABSTRACTION" is on at our gallery until 20th June and includes works by Frank AVRAY WILSON, William
GEAR, CAZIEL, Jeff LOWE, Bert IRVIN, Dennis BOWEN, John PLUMB and more!
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HOW DO YOU SET UP A GALLERY EXHIBITION? Follow Whitford Fine Art 8 hours' installation of its latest gallery show condensed to 35 seconds. This Retrospective Exhibition of works by European pioneer of Abstraction, Joseph Lacasse starts on Friday 5th June.
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Whitford Fine Art is one of London's leading international Art Galleries, specialising in French and British 20th Century paintings and sculpture, having moved from an emphasis on Cubism and Modernism towards Post-War Abstraction and Pop Art. Founded in 1973 by Adrian Mibus and Louise Whitford, the gallery offers more than forty years of experience in art buying, selling and advising. Its clientele includes museums and high profile private collectors. Whitford Fine Art participates in international art fairs in London and Brussels, and is a member of the Society of London Art Dealers, and ROCAD (Royal Chamber of Art Dealers, Belgium). The Gallery offers services of valuation and curatorial advice and assistance in collection building and display.
Whitford Fine Art ‘s programme of Post-War British and Continental Abstraction and Pop Art includes representation of the estates of Caziel, Joseph Lacasse and Clive Barker. For thirty years, the gallery has defended the work of Britain’s only Abstract Expressionist, Frank Avray Wilson, Belgian ZERO artist Paul Van Hoeydonck and Belgian matter painter Bram Bogart. Gallery Personnel Adrian Mibus, Director Alexandre Mibus, Director An Jo Fermon Renata Molina Lopes
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The Coca-Cola bottle as the embodiment of the American consumer culture. That is what the British sculptor Clive Barker (1940) became aware of when he visited New York in 1966. From then on, Barker produced many variations of these bottles in his signature aluminum-cast style.
By casting a found object, Barker turns the transitory into eternity, placing himself in the
practice of Marcel Duchamp. He also served as an inspiration for the 1980’s chromed objects of Jeff Koons.
Whitford Fine Art will present this 1968 third (out of three) edition of ‘Twin Cokes’, made of polished cast aluminum at BRAFA 2022, from 19 through 26 June. Both bottles are signed, dated, titled and numbered underneath.
For more information on BRAFA, visit www.brafa.art!
By casting a found object, Barker turns the transitory into eternity, placing himself in the
practice of Marcel Duchamp. He also served as an inspiration for the 1980’s chromed objects of Jeff Koons.
Whitford Fine Art will present this 1968 third (out of three) edition of ‘Twin Cokes’, made of polished cast aluminum at BRAFA 2022, from 19 through 26 June. Both bottles are signed, dated, titled and numbered underneath.
For more information on BRAFA, visit www.brafa.art!
Whitford Fine Art presents their online Winter Exhibition 2021: ‘CAZIEL x LURÇAT’, comprising a selection of works on paper by Polish artist Caziel (1906-1988) and ceramics by French artist Jean Lurçat (1892-1966). Despite differences in generation, style and medium, both Lurçat and Caziel were disciples of the ‘École de Paris’ and both arrived at personal styles of abstraction as optimistic and buoyant as the artistic current which was sweeping through Post-War 1950s Paris.
Exhibition live online and available to view by appointment until 16 January 2022.
Pictured:
Caziel
‘WC634 - RECHERCHE 51.IX’
1951
Gouache and wax crayon
63 x 48 cm
Signed and dated upper right
Jean Lurçat
DRYAD, C. 1955
Glazed ceramic
50.5 x 46 cm
Inscribed "Dessin J. Lurçat, C.G, 25/50"
Ed. 25/50
Exhibition live online and available to view by appointment until 16 January 2022.
Pictured:
Caziel
‘WC634 - RECHERCHE 51.IX’
1951
Gouache and wax crayon
63 x 48 cm
Signed and dated upper right
Jean Lurçat
DRYAD, C. 1955
Glazed ceramic
50.5 x 46 cm
Inscribed "Dessin J. Lurçat, C.G, 25/50"
Ed. 25/50
Whitford Fine Art’s summer show, ‘CLIVE BARKER: SAND CASTS’ is now live.
In the 1990s Clive Barker (b. 1940), known for his typical love of disguising reality and play on contrasts, renewed his successful career as a Pop artist. At that time, Barker chose to work solely with aluminium, using the technique of sand casting. Fast, easy and low-cost, sand casting appealed after Minimalism and Post-Pop had forced Pop Art from the centre stage during the 1980s.
These aluminium objects demonstrate a steadfast link with the past when Barker established his unique style of sculpture and show once more an artist with great talent to surprise, reinvent and disguise the found object. In contrast with Barker’s early work, the 1990’s sand casts were often produced in editions and are therefore easily accessible.
On view by appointment only until 12 September 2021. Please email [email protected] to book your visit.
Pictured:
Clive Barker
‘Mickey Mouse’
2001
Polished Aluminium
Ed. 4/10
Signed, dated and titled
Clive Barker
‘Ice Cream’
2000
Polished aluminium
Ed. 3/9
Signed, dated and titled
Clive Barker
‘Cine Camera’
1999
Polished aluminium
1 Study
Signed, dated and titled
Clive Barker
‘Small Ray Gun’
1998
Polished aluminium
Ed. 14/50
Signed, dated and titled
In the 1990s Clive Barker (b. 1940), known for his typical love of disguising reality and play on contrasts, renewed his successful career as a Pop artist. At that time, Barker chose to work solely with aluminium, using the technique of sand casting. Fast, easy and low-cost, sand casting appealed after Minimalism and Post-Pop had forced Pop Art from the centre stage during the 1980s.
These aluminium objects demonstrate a steadfast link with the past when Barker established his unique style of sculpture and show once more an artist with great talent to surprise, reinvent and disguise the found object. In contrast with Barker’s early work, the 1990’s sand casts were often produced in editions and are therefore easily accessible.
On view by appointment only until 12 September 2021. Please email [email protected] to book your visit.
Pictured:
Clive Barker
‘Mickey Mouse’
2001
Polished Aluminium
Ed. 4/10
Signed, dated and titled
Clive Barker
‘Ice Cream’
2000
Polished aluminium
Ed. 3/9
Signed, dated and titled
Clive Barker
‘Cine Camera’
1999
Polished aluminium
1 Study
Signed, dated and titled
Clive Barker
‘Small Ray Gun’
1998
Polished aluminium
Ed. 14/50
Signed, dated and titled
BENDALL / BERNÈDE : A Story of Painting in Bordeaux
Alla Whitford Fine Art Gallery di Londra una mostra su i due artisti di Bordeaux che portarono aria di avanguardia nella tradizionale Bordeaux.
https://www.pikasus.com/bendall-bernede-a-story-of-painting-in-bordeaux/
Alla Whitford Fine Art Gallery di Londra una mostra su i due artisti di Bordeaux che portarono aria di avanguardia nella tradizionale Bordeaux.
https://www.pikasus.com/bendall-bernede-a-story-of-painting-in-bordeaux/
🕊️ COMING SOON! Introducing BIRDS OF A FEATHER, a new collaboration between 15 leading UK galleries, presenting artworks featuring on Instagram.
Use to explore the exhibition from 22 February.
Aiming to inject the world with a little (much-needed) optimism, and celebrating our connection with nature, this collaboration will run from ⭒ 22 - 29 February ⭒ and feature a range of works in all media, forms and styles. Whether painted, sculpted, photographed or filmed, birds are a metaphor for connection and the universal need to congregate.
Participants include: Beaux Arts Bath, Bowman Sculpture Gallery, Candida Stevens Gallery, Gallery Pangolin, Museum in the Park, Nature in Art, Pangolin London, Sladmore Contemporary, The Garden Gallery, The Redfern Gallery, The Scottish Gallery, Sladmore Gallery, The Wykeham Gallery and Whitford Fine Art.
→ To view all artworks in the show, follow the hashtag .
TOP ROW (left to right): Jean Lurçat, Combatant, c. 1955, Glazed Ceramic; Jon Buck, Early Bird, Bronze, Edition of 12; Danny Clahane, Swallow Tondo, Slate, Portland Stone Base; Karl Martens, Great Crested Grebe, 2020, Watercolour.
SECOND ROW (left to right): Jon Buck, Double Take, 2005, Bronze, Edition of 10; Fred Coppin, Boy Vs Crow, 2021, Oil on Linen on Panel; Patrick Haines, The Widening Gyre, Bronze; Terence Coventry, Bird II Maquette, 2010, Bronze, Edition of 10.
THIRD ROW (left to right): François Pompon, Guinea Fowl, 1910-1911, Bronze; George Taylor, The Cult of Infinity, 2017, Peacock & Golden Pheasant Feathers, Unique; Michael Ayrton, Reflection of Flight, 1975, Perspex and Bronze, Edition of 12; Elizabeth Butterworth, Yellow Wing, 2015, Gouache on Paper.
BOTTOM ROW (left to right): Detail from an early 20th century postcard in the Wilf Merrett collection; Sophie Dickens, Raven, Bronze, Edition of 9; Steven Bowers, Sulphur Crested Cockatoos and Shards Platter, 2018, Wheel-thrown White Earthenware, Under-Glaze Colours, Clear Glaze, On-Glaze Gold Lustre; Anthony Theakston, Large Heron Jug, Ceramic.
Use to explore the exhibition from 22 February.
Aiming to inject the world with a little (much-needed) optimism, and celebrating our connection with nature, this collaboration will run from ⭒ 22 - 29 February ⭒ and feature a range of works in all media, forms and styles. Whether painted, sculpted, photographed or filmed, birds are a metaphor for connection and the universal need to congregate.
Participants include: Beaux Arts Bath, Bowman Sculpture Gallery, Candida Stevens Gallery, Gallery Pangolin, Museum in the Park, Nature in Art, Pangolin London, Sladmore Contemporary, The Garden Gallery, The Redfern Gallery, The Scottish Gallery, Sladmore Gallery, The Wykeham Gallery and Whitford Fine Art.
→ To view all artworks in the show, follow the hashtag .
TOP ROW (left to right): Jean Lurçat, Combatant, c. 1955, Glazed Ceramic; Jon Buck, Early Bird, Bronze, Edition of 12; Danny Clahane, Swallow Tondo, Slate, Portland Stone Base; Karl Martens, Great Crested Grebe, 2020, Watercolour.
SECOND ROW (left to right): Jon Buck, Double Take, 2005, Bronze, Edition of 10; Fred Coppin, Boy Vs Crow, 2021, Oil on Linen on Panel; Patrick Haines, The Widening Gyre, Bronze; Terence Coventry, Bird II Maquette, 2010, Bronze, Edition of 10.
THIRD ROW (left to right): François Pompon, Guinea Fowl, 1910-1911, Bronze; George Taylor, The Cult of Infinity, 2017, Peacock & Golden Pheasant Feathers, Unique; Michael Ayrton, Reflection of Flight, 1975, Perspex and Bronze, Edition of 12; Elizabeth Butterworth, Yellow Wing, 2015, Gouache on Paper.
BOTTOM ROW (left to right): Detail from an early 20th century postcard in the Wilf Merrett collection; Sophie Dickens, Raven, Bronze, Edition of 9; Steven Bowers, Sulphur Crested Cockatoos and Shards Platter, 2018, Wheel-thrown White Earthenware, Under-Glaze Colours, Clear Glaze, On-Glaze Gold Lustre; Anthony Theakston, Large Heron Jug, Ceramic.
London based Whitford Fine Art were early defenders of artists such as Bram Bogart, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Joseph Lacasse and Clive Barker. Lately they have rediscovered 1950s British Abstract Expressionist Frank Avray Wilson, and early 1960s Zero artist Reinhold Koehler. The gallery has been entrusted several Estates, including those of Caziel, Joseph Lacasse and Reinhold Koehler. For its participation in the BRAFA in the Galleries event, Whitford Fine Art has selected a special location in Brussels to welcome art lovers by appointment: in the intimate setting of a private apartment at Rue Antoine Dansaert 79, splendid works by Zero artist Bernard Aubertin, Art Informel co-founder Bram Bogart as well as Reinhold Koehler will be shown.
BRAFA in the Galleries (27 - 31 January 2021) is the newly created alternative to the BRAFA Art Fair at Tour & Taxis, Brussels, which has been postponed to January 2022. Our exhibitors will welcome you in their galleries, where they will present the objects and artworks selected for BRAFA 2021 in the best possible conditions. In total, 126 art dealers spread across 13 countries and 37 cities look forward to sharing their passion for the beautiful, the rare, the precious and the historical in a warm, friendly atmosphere, in line with the rules in place in their area.
To learn more, kindly visit: https://www.brafa.art/en/information.
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BRAFA in the Galleries (27 - 31 January 2021) is the newly created alternative to the BRAFA Art Fair at Tour & Taxis, Brussels, which has been postponed to January 2022. Our exhibitors will welcome you in their galleries, where they will present the objects and artworks selected for BRAFA 2021 in the best possible conditions. In total, 126 art dealers spread across 13 countries and 37 cities look forward to sharing their passion for the beautiful, the rare, the precious and the historical in a warm, friendly atmosphere, in line with the rules in place in their area.
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Whitford Fine Art presents an exhibition of select ceramic works by one of the most innovative and versatile French artists of the 20th century: Jean Lurçat (1892-1966).
The ceramics specifically chosen for this online exhibition reflect Lurçat's close and abiding interest in not only the physical forms and features of nature, but also its spiritual side. Through his chosen motifs, the vividness of the colours with which they are rendered, and the very tactile nature of medium itself, Lurçat employs ceramics to serve not only as a study of nature, but also as a celebration of man’s communion with its life-affirming diversity and beauty.
View the online exhibition until 15 January 2021 here: http://ow.ly/4ig150CIVzb
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Jean Lurçat
'Plate - Red - Rendez-vous'
c. 1955
Glazed ceramic
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Jean Lurçat (1892-1966)
'Plate - Green - Nightingale'
c. 1955
Glazed ceramic
The ceramics specifically chosen for this online exhibition reflect Lurçat's close and abiding interest in not only the physical forms and features of nature, but also its spiritual side. Through his chosen motifs, the vividness of the colours with which they are rendered, and the very tactile nature of medium itself, Lurçat employs ceramics to serve not only as a study of nature, but also as a celebration of man’s communion with its life-affirming diversity and beauty.
View the online exhibition until 15 January 2021 here: http://ow.ly/4ig150CIVzb
1
Jean Lurçat
'Plate - Red - Rendez-vous'
c. 1955
Glazed ceramic
2
Jean Lurçat (1892-1966)
'Plate - Green - Nightingale'
c. 1955
Glazed ceramic
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Today's From the VRchives:
Poetry in Motion. Ceramics by Jean Lurçat and Paintings by Georges Bernède @ Whitford Fine Art, London
two artists from different generations, traditions and backgrounds, brought together to show their common ground of the universal themes of freedom, movement and poetry
More info, pics and VR virtual visits at https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/poetry-in-motion-ceramics-by-jean-lurcat-and-paintings-by-georges-bernede-2/
Poetry in Motion. Ceramics by Jean Lurçat and Paintings by Georges Bernède @ Whitford Fine Art, London
two artists from different generations, traditions and backgrounds, brought together to show their common ground of the universal themes of freedom, movement and poetry
More info, pics and VR virtual visits at https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/poetry-in-motion-ceramics-by-jean-lurcat-and-paintings-by-georges-bernede-2/
Caziel 'La Guerre' (1953)
Courtesy of Whitford Fine Art
Caziel attended the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, 1931-36, where the influence of French Post-Impressionist painting was omnipresent. Revered masters amongst the students, and significant influences on Caziel’s early development as a painter, included Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse.
His first one-man show at the Galerie Allard in 1947 was followed by an invitation to join Picasso, Hans Hartung, Victor Vasarely, Alfred Manessier and others to exhibit at the prestigious ‘Salon de mai’.
Throughout his five-year close friendship with Picasso, 1947-1951, Caziel’s stylistic preoccupations were divided - strong lyrical and expressive compositions much indebted to Picasso alternate with works revealing his quest for Abstraction.
Courtesy of Whitford Fine Art
Caziel attended the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, 1931-36, where the influence of French Post-Impressionist painting was omnipresent. Revered masters amongst the students, and significant influences on Caziel’s early development as a painter, included Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse.
His first one-man show at the Galerie Allard in 1947 was followed by an invitation to join Picasso, Hans Hartung, Victor Vasarely, Alfred Manessier and others to exhibit at the prestigious ‘Salon de mai’.
Throughout his five-year close friendship with Picasso, 1947-1951, Caziel’s stylistic preoccupations were divided - strong lyrical and expressive compositions much indebted to Picasso alternate with works revealing his quest for Abstraction.
Gisteren zond Pompidou live uit van op Brafa Art Fair, de kunst- en antiekbeurs die inmiddels aan haar 65ste editie toe is.
Nicky Aerts ging in gesprek met kunsthandelaars Christian Vroeyr, Samuel Vanhoegaerden, Klaas Muller en An Jo Fermon (Whitford Fine Art). Ze hadden het over BRAFA Art Fair, over enkele topstukken die te koop worden aangeboden en over de uitzonderlijke stiel van het handelen in kunst.
Herbeluister via klara.be, of via de Klara app! ✨🎧
Nicky Aerts ging in gesprek met kunsthandelaars Christian Vroeyr, Samuel Vanhoegaerden, Klaas Muller en An Jo Fermon (Whitford Fine Art). Ze hadden het over BRAFA Art Fair, over enkele topstukken die te koop worden aangeboden en over de uitzonderlijke stiel van het handelen in kunst.
Herbeluister via klara.be, of via de Klara app! ✨🎧
When in Brussels, make sure to visit the international BRAFA Art Fair which celebrates its 65th edition this year. One of the 133 splendid galleries exhibiting is Whitford Fine Art from London who prominently features a wonderful mixed media work by Bram Bogart (1921-2012). 'Gebied' is from 1963 and an outright sculptural painting masterpiece of the Delft-born Belgian artist whose recognition is unprecedented.
Have a good look at it during BRAFA 2020 from 26 January - 2 February at Tour & Taxis Brussels.
Have a good look at it during BRAFA 2020 from 26 January - 2 February at Tour & Taxis Brussels.