Galleries - October 2010

MAPS 30 & 31 LONDON ST JAMES’S & TRAFALGAR SQUARE a CHRISTIE’S (StJames’s) 8 King Street, St James’s SW1Y 6QT t020 7839 9060 b FINE ART COMMISSIONS 7 Bury St, St James’s SW1Y 6AL Commissioning Gallery, representing portrait painters, sculptors, sporting and landscape artists. Mon–Thur 10–6, Fri 10–5. info@fineartcommissions.com www.fineartcommissions.com t020 7839 2792 f 020 7839 4477 c GROSVENOR VADEHRA 21 Ryder Street, SW1Y 6PX Gallery specialises in Modern & Contemporary Indian Art, South African Art and Modern British Sculpture. Indian (Sub)Way. Sep 22–Oct 9. An exhibition curated by the leading Indian art critic and curator Yashodhara Dalmia. Paintings, installations, photographs and digital works. Faiza Butt: Pehlwan. Oct 13–30. Mon–Fri 9.30–5.30, Sat11–4 (during 62. GALLERIES OCTOBER 10 exhibitions) art@grosvenorgallery.com www.grosvenorgallery.com www.grosvenorvadehra.com t020 7484 7979 f 020 7484 7980 d THE ILLUSTRATION CUPBOARD 22 Bury St, St James’s SW1Y 6AL Graham Oakley: The Church Mice. Sep 21–Oct 16. Inga Moore: The Secret Garden. Oct 20–Nov 13. gallery@illustrationcupboard.com www.illustrationcupboard.com t020 7976 1727 e MARTYN GREGORY 34 Bury St, St James’s SW1Y 6AH Early English Watercolours, British Paintings; also leading specialist in China Trade Paintings and pictures relating to the Far East. Mon–Fri 10–6 mgregory@dircon.co.uk www.martyngregory.com t020 7839 3731 f 020 7930 0812 f OAKHAM CONTEMPORARY 27 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL Johan De Fre: ‘Interpretations’. Sep 29–Oct 22. Still Life Exhibition of the latest works by Johan De Fre, a very well established artist, strongly influenced by the Masters of 17th C. Dutch still life paintings. Catalogue on request. Mon–Fri 10–6, Satby appt enquiries@oakhamcontemporary.com www.oakhamcontemporary.com t020 7839 8800 f 020 7976 2266 g ROYAL OVER-SEAS LEAGUE Over-Seas House, ParkPlace St James’s Street, London SW1A 1LR See ROSL Scholars Exhibition listing on Map 32. culture@rosl.org.uk www.roslarts.co.uk t020 7408 0214 ext324 h STERN PISSARRO GALLERY 66 St James’s Street, London SW1A 1NE Wenn Die Nacht Am Tiefsten Ist, Ist Der Tag Am Nächsten. Oct 14–30. A group show with contemporary work from 17 Berlin-based artists in dialogue with works from the Stern Pissarro Gallery collection. Specialising in Camille Pissarro and three generations of his descendants with a permanent but ever-changing display of works by eleven members of the Pissarro fam- ily. Also some 19th Century European paintings and 20th Century paintings. Mon–Sat10–6 stern@pissarro.com www.pissarro.net t020 7629 6662 f 020 7409 0077 i WHITFORD FINE ART 6 Duke Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6BN Twentieth Century British and European Paintings and Sculpture including Post War Abstraction, Pop Art, French Cubism and Modernism. Aboriginal Art. Kudditji Kngwarreye: My Country. Oct 15–Nov 5. Mon–Fri 10–6 info@whitfordfineart.com www.whitfordfineart.com t020 7930 9332 f 020 7930 5577 P I C C AD I LL Y P R IN C E'S A R C A D E A R CAD E P A R K P L S T J A M E S ' S P L R YD ER S T R E E T BU R Y STREE T D U K E S T R E E T K I N G S T R E E T JERMY N ST R EET PICCADILLY ST JAMES'S ST R EET MASON'S YARD a e g d h i f c b ST JAMES'S ST JAMES’S CT NEWOXFORDSTREE BL O R L O TT E S T S T WMANS T K INGST M ARSHA L L S T C O C K S P U RS T N O RTH UMBE R LA N DAV E . OLDCOMPT O NST LB OR OUGHS T B E A K ST REG E NT JER M YNSTREET C A R L T O N HS E . TE R. H A Y M A R K E T W HIT E HAL L T HEMALL P A L L M A L L B E D F O RD ST F LO R ALS T NEALST ENDELLSTREET SAIN TM A RT I N ' SL AN E S HEL TON S T C H A RI NG CRO S S R D F RITH S T G R E EK S T D E A NST RE ET WA R DOU R S TR EET B ER WICKSTREET L EXI N GTO N ST PO L A N D C H A R I N G C R O S S R O A D B RE W E RS T L O N G A C R E T S T R EE T S H A F T E S B U R Y A V E S T R A N D S H A F T E S B U R Y A V E OXFO R D ST R E E T P I C C A DI LLY V I C T O R I A Covent Gar Piccadilly Circus Tottenham Ct Rd Leicester Square Charing a e d c b TRAFALGAR SQ S T AP 30 M JA M ES’ S Celebrating a new volume on her work (Sansom & Co £29.50) this new show of Rachel Nicholson at Caroline Wiseman hails an artist of quiet and unassuming authority. One of the triplets born to Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson in 1934, Nicholson has, in the face of this almost overwhelmingly grand artistic heritage, shown a remarkable persistence and tenacity of purpose, coming to painting, as so many women artists of the first half of 20th C. did, in her 40s, after children, and without any formal training. The St Ives inheritance is still clearly there though in both the landscapes and still-lifes – sometimes fused in the same image – but to it she always adds her own, very distinct mark, of gentle wit and a feeling for the life and humanity of things. NU THUMB nails Rachel Nicholson, ‘Sussex Jug’ 1994/2008, oil 30 x 25.5cm