Cover 165 x 220mm for 150gsm Artic Volume (165mic) - 64 + 6 pages SUMMER 2018 www.londonartweek.co.uk london art week art london 40 GALLERIES 3 AUCTION HOUSES 5‚000 YEARS OF ART IN MAYFAIR & ST JAMES’S summer 2018 sponsors @londonartweek_ londonartweek londonartweek LAW Cover 2018_FINAL.indd 1 26/04/2018 14:09 2018SuMMer 29 June to 6 July 2018 Opening Night 28 June, 3–8 pm Galleries Friday 29 June – Friday 6 July, 10 am – 6 pm Saturday and Sunday 30 June, 1 July, 11 am – 5 pm Tuesday 3 July late evening until 9 pm Check website for participating galleries auction houses Friday 29 June – Friday 6 July, 9 am – 5 pm Saturday and Sunday 30 June, 1 July, 11 am – 5 pm For auction viewing and sale times, please consult the auction house Front cover Please visit the website to subscribe and Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, called Girodet-Trioson Portrait of Général for information about news and events Auguste Bertin de Veaux (1799–1879), aged eighteen years (detail) Courtesy of Didier Aaron www.londonartweek.co.uk Jan Van Kessel the Elder, Study of Insects with a Flower of Borago Officinalis (detail) @ Courtesy of Caretto & Occhinegro mail londonartweek.co.uk Juan Gris, Nature morte à la guitare (detail) Courtesy of Artur Ramon Art diary date back cover Pompeo Marchesi The Genius of the Hunt LONDON ART WEEK WINTER 2018 (detail) Courtesy of Trinity Fine Art 29 November – 7 December England, London, circa 1400 Saint Mary Magdalene and a Bearded Prophet (detail) Courtesy of Sam Fogg Henry Hoppner Meyer The Young Catechist (detail) Courtesy of Ben Elwes Fine Art @londonartweek_ londonartweek londonartweek 01-07 LAW REVISED 26_4.indd 1 26/04/2018 13:30 partners Master Drawings New York art suppliers See londonartweek.co.uk for more details MartinSPeed rUPert HarriS COnServatiOn ltd www.martinspeed.com www.rupertharris.com SiMOn Brady art SHiPPing teaM www.simonbradyart.jimdo.com [email protected] 01-07 LAW REVISED 26_4.indd 2 26/04/2018 13:30 sponsors tectuS inSurance presents a new, unique concept for private collectors, dealers, musicians, galleries and museums. 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Hunters are proud to have an extensive international network of trusted professional advisers and art experts to help serve their clients’ needs. www.hunters-solicitors.co.uk 01-07 LAW REVISED 26_4.indd 3 26/04/2018 13:30 INTRODUCTION lUke SySOn iriS and B gerald CantOr CHairMan European Sculpture and Decorative Arts The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York useums and galleries need several different sources of energy if they are to thrive, if they are to be more than M mausolea of the tastes of the past. We are constantly on the hunt for talented curators, enlightened supporters, beautiful spaces and compelling exhibitions. But, in the end, nothing matters more than the collections themselves. Works of art are our life blood, and their acquisition ensures that our story – the story of art – can grow and evolve. To buy a work of art is to identify a piece of the ever-expanding jigsaw puzzle of our creativity. Like collectors everywhere, we buy with our eyes and our minds both. We need to feel the power of a sculpture or a drawing or of a piece of pottery. And at the same time we need to consider its significance, to think hard about what story it tells. That can be about the celebration of a great acknowledged talent – a task that should never be neglected or underestimated. And it can be about the joy of the unfamiliar. It’s always wonderful to vault the fence of the existing canon to discover pastures new. Expertise is essential but so is an open heart. ‘Knowledge It’s that treasure trove of recognized masterpieces and comes with works by lesser known talents that makes London Art Week so special. Twice a year, we are encouraged to embark on discovery.’ a voyage of discovery, to take an aesthetic journey that takes in both wonderfully safe harbours and fascinatingly uncharted territories. Our dealer colleagues are often ahead of the game in seeing quality in categories that have traditionally been neglected. The new can be constantly discovered in the past – and I’m always excited by encountering a (to me) 4 01-07 LAW REVISED 26_4.indd 4 26/04/2018 13:30 unknown name or an unexpected facet to an established figure. Knowledge comes with discovery. It can’t and shouldn’t always be prior. How otherwise will our perceptions expand? I sometimes hear the lament that all the great works of art are now in museums and so it’s hard to find masterpieces. In the first place that’s just not true. More than six years at the Met has taught me that. Great dealers spot things. They track them down. And, by so doing, they discover for us works of art that are sometimes as remarkable as anything we already own. It’s a great source of pride that as I return each art season to my native city, I see displayed exactly what can be achieved by talented, questing art dealers chasing down works of art for a demanding, discriminating and, I think, increasingly inquiring body of collectors, inside and outside museums. THE MET DOES MODERN ON MADISON THE MET BREUER LIKE LIFE SCULPTURE, COLOR, AND THE BODY THROUGH JULY 22 metmuseum.org #MetLikeLife 945 Madison Ave. at 75th St., NYC The exhibition is supported in part by Willem Danielsz van Tetrode, Hercules (detail), the Jane and Robert Carroll Fund and ca. 1545–60. The Quentin Foundation, London. The Modern Circle. Photo: Maggie Nimkin, New York. 5 01-07 LAW REVISED 26_4.indd 5 26/04/2018 13:30 9 April – 29 July 2018 75 paintings by Monet together for the very first time We recommend you book ahead online Members go free Claude Monet, The Grand Canal (detail), 1908 © Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Gift of Osgood Hooker 1960.29 01-07 LAW REVISED 26_4.indd 6 26/04/2018 13:30 Didier Aaron Clifford House 15 Clifford Street London w1S 4jy www.didieraaron.com [email protected] +44 (0)20 7534 9100 contact Marc Fecker map 9 exhibition title Master Drawings from the 17th to the 19th centuries Founded in 1923, the gallery has been in business for three generations and is now directed from New York by Hervé Aaron. To enable a closer relationship with its clients, the gallery is also represented at prestigious locations in Paris and London. At its three locations, important works of art of the seventeenth, eighteenth anne-louiS girodet Portrait of Général Auguste Bertin de Veaux and nineteenth centuries are displayed, de rouSSy-trioSon, (1799–1879), aged eighteen years and among the gallery’s clients are some called girodet-trioSon Black and white chalk with stumping of the greatest museums worldwide. (1767 – 1824) 218 � 175 mm Signed with initials and dated: GT/ mars 1817 Inscribed on the cartouche: Girodet / général Bertin de Vaux hubert robert (1733 – 1808) Two figures conversing before the Temple of the Sybil, c.1775 Red chalk 290 � 368 mm 7 01-07 LAW REVISED 26_4.indd 7 26/04/2018 13:30 Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art At M&L Fine Art 15 Old Bond Street London w1s 4ax [email protected] www.alfineart.com +39 3356693181 / +39 3356148588 contacts Francesca Antonacci Damiano Lapiccirella map 16 exhibition title Italian Paintings through five centuries Francesca Antonacci Damiano Lapiccirella antonio canova (1757 – 1822) jacopo robusti, Fine Art is the result of a merger between The Self-Portrait of Giorgione called il tintoretto two old-established antique galleries based Oil on wood, 72.5 � 64 cm (1518 – 1594) in Rome, London and Florence respectively, Carved and gilded wooden frame, Susanna both leading lights in the world of Italian and Rome 1792 Oil on panel, 27 � 38 cm international collecting since the early 1900s. The gallery, which specialises in master paintings and drawings from the late 18th to the early 20th century, focuses in particular on the Grand Tour and on Neo-Classical sculpture, numbering some of the world’s leading museums, such as the National Gallery in Washington, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Musée d’Orsay, the Uffizi Gallery, and most discerning collectors among its clients. It shows at the most prestigious International Art fairs including: TEFAF, Maastricht; the Salon du Dessin, Paris; the Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris; Fine Art Paris; and the Florence Biennale. 8 08-64 LAW REVISED 26_4.indd 8 26/04/2018 14:26 With the main premises in via Margutta Galleria W. Apolloni and another showroom in via del Babuino, W.