Galleries - April 2014

e ILLUSTRATIONCUPBOARD 22 Bury Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6AL A unique art gallery representing the most distinguished contemporary book illustrators from around the world. Open weekdays 9.30–6, Sat 11–5 gallery@illustrationcupboard.com www.illustrationcupboard.com t 020 7976 1727 f MARTYN GREGORY GALLERY 34 Bury Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6AU Early English Watercolours, British Paintings. Also leadingspecialist in China Trade Paintings and pictures relatingto the Far East. Mon–Fri 10–6 mgregory@dircon.co.uk www.martyngregory.com t 020 7839 3731 f 020 7930 0812 g PAISNEL GALLERY 9 Bury Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6AB Specialisingin Twentieth Century British Art, Post-War and St Ives. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat & other times by appt info@paisnelgallery.co.uk www.paisnelgallery.co.uk t 020 7930 9293 f 020 7930 7282 h STERN PISSARRO GALLERY 66 St James’s Street, SW1A 1NE Gallery specialisingin works by Camille Pissarro and three generations of his descendants together with Impressionist, post-Impressionist and Modern Masters. Mon–Sat 10–6 stern@pissarro.com www.pissarro.net t 020 7629 6662 f 020 7409 0077 i WHITE CUBE 25-26 Mason’s Yard, St James’s SW1Y 6BU www.whitecube.com t 020 7930 5373 j WHITFORD FINE ART 6 Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6BN 40th Anniversary. Twentieth Century British and European Paintings and Sculpture including Post War Abstraction, Pop Art, French Cubism and Modernism. Aboriginal Art. Mon–Fri 10–6 info@whitfordfineart.com www.whitfordfineart.com t 020 7930 9332 f 020 7930 5577 46 GALLERIES APRIL 2014 a AKTIS GALLERY 10-11 Park Place, SW1A 1LP Modern European Drawings and Paintings. Tue–Sat 10–2, 3–6 info@aktis-gallery.co.uk www.aktis-gallery.co.uk t 020 7629 6531 b ALAN WHEATLEY ART 22 Mason’s Yard, Duke Street St James’s, SW1Y 6BU Alan Davie: The (Wild) Eye of Wonder. Early Paintings 1945–1970. Apr 9–May 23. *ad A selection of oil paintings dated 1945–1970 by one of the most influential Modern British livingartists, Alan Davie. This new excitingexhibition will provide the opportunity to view previously unseen significant early works by the artist. Mon–Fri 11–6 contact@alanwheatleyart.com www.alanwheatleyart.com t 020 7930 1262 c CHRISTIE’S 8 King Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6QT t 020 7839 9060 d GROSVENOR GALLERY 21 Ryder Street, SW1Y 6PX Modern Indian and 20th Century British Art. Mon–Fri 9.30–5.30 art@grosvenorgallery.com www.grosvenorgallery.com t 020 7484 7979 f 020 7484 7980 MAP 27 LONDON ST JAMES’S 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 PA LL M A LL PICCADILLY ST JAME S 'S STREE T MASON'S YARD a e g d h j i f c b Alan Davie ‘Monk’s Vision’ Replying to his parents in 1942, Alan Davie writes “You ask me if my life has changed. There is little or no change . . . all is as was with much more freedom . . . I am free as the four winds.” Looking at the 25 paintings, ranging from 1945 to 1970, in this handsome exhibition at Alan Wheatley (map 27) you are struck by the idea that the hugely powerful sense of self this remark reveals lies at the heart of everything Davie has ever done since. No inhibitions, no preconceptions, whether it was painting or jazz, gliding or underwater diving! It would certainly account for his extraordinary precocity and ‘openness’ as a painter which at 28 so attracted Peggy Guggen- heim and in 1953 led him to adopt Zen philosophy as a key element in his art’s spontaneity of expression. NU THUMB nails