again. But only just round the
corner and over New Bond Street
this time, to an architect-
designed street-level space in
part of the redeveloped Bonhams
building on Woodstock Street.
The opening show, ‘Jeune Ecole
de Paris 1944-50’, looks at the
generation of young artists who
came to the fore in the aftermath
of the Liberation of Paris in 1944
– Singier, Le Moal and Venard
among them. Vibrant, colourful
and celebratory in tone for the
most part, as you might expect –
and of very high quality.
Meanwhile, another piece of
the Cork Street diaspora slots
into place withthe opening of
Stoppenbach & Delestre
’s new
space in Ryder Street. As far as
one can see a pattern to the
and rider at the top end (est. £10-
15,000) to splendid archival
photographs, drawings and
prints at the bottom (£50-60) and
virtually anyone you can care to
think about (and some you may
never have) in British sculpture in
between – there are some real
potential bargains in there I’d
say. Apart from the website,
viewing of the pieces at his
gallery space is from 29 May to
4 June: so get down there asap.
On the Move
Having decamped from its long-
time space on Westbourne Grove
to Mayfair’s St George’s Street
(fashion industry victims) in 2010,
Ecole de Paris specialist
Hanina
Fine Art
has recently moved
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GALLERIES JUNE 2014
ANTENNAE
Sculpture on Line
After pioneering two very
successful on-line auctions for
20th C. British paintings and
drawings over the last year from
his base in Parson’s Green, close
to Putney Bridge, the ever
enterprising Keith Chapman of
Modern Art Auctions
is now
aiming to do the same for
sculpture, with over 200 items to
be bid for on 5 June. As you can
quickly see from his website, the
range and quality on offer in what
he believes to be the first stand-
alone sculpture auction of its
kind is quite remarkable; from a
handsome Epstein bronze
portrait bust, an exhilarating Leon
Underwood 1931 bronze of birds
in flight and a Clatworthy horse
D
avid Prentice in his studio and
below one of his pictures ‘From
Madams’
Local Boy
Having met him and written about his work on these pages and elsewhere, I
was particularly sad to hear from J
ohn Davies of the death of painter David
Prentice, aged 77 – just as his latest show at the gallery opens on 21 June.
Born in Birmingham David was always very much a Midlands man, studying at
the city’s Art School and later teaching at it. In addition he was one of the
co-founders of the still-thriving Ikon Gallery in 1964 and a co-director until 1972.
Meanwhile his striking abstract-constructivist canvases won him
considerable critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic during the 60s, his
work exhibited at the prestigious Allbright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and with
pioneering gallerist Betty Parsons in New York. When he finally retired, from the
post of artist-in-residence of Nottingham University in the mid-80s, he stayed
close to his patch, moving to the Malvern Hills. There was nothing provincial
though about the large, exuberant semi-abstract canvases, sparkling,
jewel-like watercolour studies and vigorous reed-pen drawings he was to make
of this particular landscape which now became his overriding artistic passion.
He was, in short, a real original and will be much missed.
NU
