Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery Including works by Larry Bell, Bram Bogart, Georges Braque, Patrick Caulfield, Robyn Denny, Sam Francis, Pia Fries, Richard Hamilton, James Hayward, David Hockney, Shirley Kaneda, Phillip King, Henri Matisse, Bruce McLean, Robert Motherwell, Larry Poons, Ed Ruscha, Richard Smith, Stanley Spencer, Frank Stella, William Tillyer, Marc Vaux and Tom Wesselmann Spring Mixed Show On the cover William Tillyer Nine Refections 2015-19 Acrylic on acrylic mesh laid on canvas 230 x 230 cms (90 5/8 x 90 5/8 ins) see p.17 For further information, please contact the gallery at: [email protected] tel: +44 (0)20 7734 3431 bernard jacobson gallery 28 duke street st james’s london sw1y 6ag tel +44 (0)20 7734 3431 fax +44 (0)20 7734 3277 | [email protected] All prices are subject to VAT. Some prints can be sold under Margin Scheme. www.jacobsongallery.com | Bernard Jacobson Limited Registered No 00962605 VAT No GB 510329685 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery “ Who places some thing some where? Any one who is a sculptor. Any one is a sculptor. Any one is a sculpture. Any where. Any time. Bruce McLean is a sculptor. Bruce McLean has been a sculptor for “ a long time, in many places. Some times he has been a sculpture. Mel Gooding Five Decades og Sculpture, 2018 1. Bruce McLean Untitled 2009 Acrylic and oil on canvas 171.5 x 152.4 cms (67 1/2 x 60 ins) £ 30,000 7 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery 2. Marc Vaux Untitled (BY) 1965 Acrylic on cotton duck 77 x 77.5 cms (30 3/8 x 30 1/2 ins) £ 15,000 8 9 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery 3. - 10. William Tillyer Zephyr 2019 Archival giclée print, Set of 8, Edition of 70 Paper size: 57.2 x 56 cms (22 1/2 x 22 ins) Image size: 40 x 40 cms (15 3/4 x 15 3/4 ins) £ 1,000 each £ 7,000 the set 10 11 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery 11. 12. Stanley Spencer Women with Baloons (Two drawings framed together) c.1935 Pencil on paper 17.2 x 23.5 cms (6 3/4 x 9 1/4 ins) £ 3,000 12. Stanley Spencer Hanging Holly 1926 Pen and ink on paper 17.2 x 21.6 cms (6 3/4 x 8 1/2 ins) £ 4,500 13. Stanley Spencer Sword of the Lord 13. 12. c.1935 Pencil on paper 17.8 x 25.4 cms (7 x 10 ins) £ 10,000 12 13 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery Eighteen Small Prints followed on from another portfolio of screenprints published the previous year by the Bernard Jacobson Gallery entitled 14 BIG Prints. At this time, a number of contemporary artists had been experimenting with the medium of screenprinting; the earlier portfolio, as its title suggests, was one of the frst to exploit the medium’s ability to create prints on a larger scale. Some of the other artists invited to make prints for the frst portfolio were Peter Blake, Bernard Cohen, Robyn Denny, John Hoyland and Eduardo Paolozzi. The story goes that it was Peter Blake who suggested to Bernard Jacobson that, as a riposte to 14 BIG Prints, he might ask artists to make prints on a very small scale, through a note left at the original gallery. 14. From Eighteen Small Prints 14. Ed Ruscha Hot Shot 1973 Lithograph on white wove paper: cut edges, bleed image Edition of 100 21 x 15.2 cms (8 1/4 x 6 ins) £ 10,000 15. Richard Hamilton Un des Efets des Eaux de Mier 1973 Etching, Edition of 100 21 x 15.2 cms (8 1/4 x 6 ins) 15. £ 1,000 14 15 bernard jacobson gallery 16. William Tillyer Nine Refections 2015-19 Acrylic on acrylic mesh laid on canvas 230 x 230 cms (90 5/8 x 90 5/8 ins) Price Upon Request 17 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery 17. William Tillyer Air / Aer 2019 Watercolour and embossing on paper 57.2 x 55.9 cms (22 1/2 x 22 ins) £ 10,000 18 19 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery 18. 18. Patrick Caulfeld Jules Laforgue - I’ll take my life monotonous 1973 Screenprint, Edition of 100 61 x 56 cms (24 x 22 ins) £ 1,500 19. Patrick Caulfeld Jules Laforgue - Thus she would come, escaped, half-dead to my door 1973 Screenprint, Edition 100 61 x 56 cms (24 x 22 ins) £ 1,500 19. 20 21 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery 20. Marc Vaux Midday Blue 2019 Acrylic on MDF 60 x 60 x 5.5 cms (23 5/8 x 23 5/8 x 2 1/4 ins) £ 15,000 22 23 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery Robert Motherwell painting with tusche on a lithographic stone for his Elegy print with negative print 21. Robert Motherwell Black Flag 1983 Etching on Georges Duchene Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper, Edition of 42 47 x 56.5 cms (18 1/2 x 22 1/4 ins) $ 6,000 24 25 bernard jacobson gallery 22. Robert Motherwell Black Open 1973 Acrylic on canvas 182.9 x 91.4 cms (72 x 36 ins) Price Upon Request 27 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery In La Saucière, Georges Braque revisits his early praises man’s ability to endure the daily fascination with Cubist conceptions surrounding tribulations of food rationing and shortage during space. A highly texturised and inventive still-life, the war. Such scarcity of materials allowed the present work exemplifes the artist’s Braque to explore the space between objects, a engagement with the theme of the pedestal table subject that had preoccupied him throughout his – a leitmotif that occupied his œuvre from 1911 to career. 1952. Painted in 1942, amidst the drama of the Second In the artist’s own words, ‘Objects! For me there World War, the present work liberates the purely are no such things! What counts are relationships. relational space between mundane objects by They are infnite […] People are incredible! They juxtaposing them against the surface of a dark say to me: “You have painted this tin of tobacco table top and muted background; in the process, and this cup.” And what is between the two? [...] Braque emphasises his naturalistic view point, It is more important. I started by painting a space which at the time of the war had transformed into and then by furnishing it. The object is a dead a more intimate and ritualistic iconography. thing. It only comes alive when it is activated. That is what poetry is, don’t you see? Find the In contrast to Braque’s early Cubist still lifes, the common ground between things. “A swallow present work demonstrates the austerities of life pierces the sky like a dagger.” The swallow was 23. George Braques in occupied Paris: the cherries, lemons, glass, not what counted. There were thousands in the sauce boat, potato and fork are sparsely sky. But it becomes a dagger! You have to sub- La Saucière scattered across the table top, illustrating wartime ject things to change, to stop living on automatic’ 1942 scarcity. Although Braque famously disclaimed all quoted in Nadine Pouillon & Isabelle Monod- Oil on canvas symbolic interpretations of his work, the spatial Fontaine, Braque, Œuvres de Georges Braque 33.6 x 55.1 cms (13 1/4 x 21 5/8 ins) concerns of his still life are still at the mercy of (1882-1963), Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne Price Upon Request circumstance, and La Saucière contemplatively Centre Georges Pompidou. 28 29 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery 24. Henri Matisse Le repos du modèle 1922 Lithograph on Chine appliqué on Japon paper, Edition of 575 Paper size: not listed Image size: 22.2 x 30.4 cms (8 3/4 x 12 ins) £ 12,000 30 31 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery I make no erasures or alterations in a painting. I change it but not in “ the sense of altering the original intention. All my mistakes are left in the painting. I will add something but never alter or remove. If I have a blue I don’t like, I don’t work at it and change it to another blue. I add another colour to it, like black or green. But the original blue will “ still be there. Sam Francis 25. Sam Francis Untitled (SFF.737) 1980 Acrylic on gatorboard 56.5 x 121.9 cms (22 1/4 x 48 ins) Price Upon Request 32 33 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery 26. Bruce McLean Untitled 2019 Screenprint and acrylic on paper collage on plywood 152 x 152 cms (59 3/4 x 59 3/4 ins) £ 12,000 34 35 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery 27. Frank Stella 28. Frank Stella K.52 Sidney Guberman 2006 1972 Stainless steel tubing and cast aluminium Lithograph, Edition of 100 40.6 x 40.6 x 26.7 cms (16 x 16 x 10 1/2 ins) 40.6 x 55.8 cms (16 x 22 ins) $ 95,000 $ 8,000 36 37 Spring Mixed Show Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery 30. Bram Bogart Sunday Morning 2007 Mixed Media 140 x 137 cms (55 x 54 ins) € 90,000 38 39 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery 31. James Hayward 32. Shirley Kaneda Chromachord # 28 Volatile Serenity 1998 2005 Oil on canvas on wood panel Oil on canvas 35.6 x 26.7 cms (14 x 10 1/2 ins) 127 x 101.6 cms (50 x 40 ins) $ 7,500 $ 20,000 40 41 Spring Mixed Show bernard jacobson gallery At a certain point the surface of the sea reached -1.8C, and the frst “ ice crystals form a temporary membrane that the wind and waves break up into frazil ice.