Long & Ryle presents Palette, a solo exhibition of new works by British artist John Monks (b. 1954, Manchester), opening on 23rd October until 29th November 2024. John Monks is ‘one of the most important painters working in Britain today’ (The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham) with works in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Yale Centre for British Art in New Haven; CAS; Arts Council Collection; The V&A;...
There was great interest in a very special – not to mention royal – work of art at Bruun Rasmussen’s Live Auction of modern art on March 5th, when a painting by H.M. Queen Margrethe of Denmark sold for DKK 211,200 including buyer’s premium (around £24,000). All eyes were on the podium when a painting by H.M. Queen Margrethe, who recently abdicated the throne, went under the hammer at Bruun Rasmussen in Lyngby. The work...
As a part of its centenary celebrations, Triennale Milano is hosting Italian Painting Today from October 25, 2023, to February 11, 2024, an exhibition which draws inspiration from the institution’s history of promoting painting as an art form and features works from 120 notable Italian artists spanning multiple generations, celebrating contemporary Italian painting. The exhibition has been curated by Damiano Gullí through consultation with an international Honorary Board consisting of Francesco Bonami, Suzanne Hudson and Hans...
Mura Ma presents its fourth exhibition at its Marple, Stockport arts space with a solo exhibition of new large scale oil paintings by Emma Richardson, reflecting her interest in themes relating to desire, transcendence and connection. Hang Each Night in Rapture opens on Friday 9th June and runs until July15th 2023, with a preview on Thursday 8th June, 7-9pm. Hang Each Night In Rapture, the title taken from a lyric in the 1980s track Rapture...
A painting by René Magritte, L’empire des Lumières (1961) set a record for the highest price ever paid for a painting in GBP in Europe, as well as tripling the artist’s record, when it sold for £59,422,000 ($79.8 million) at Sotheby’s London. The Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction on March 2nd saw some remarkable sales successes, with the combined sales total soaring to £221.4 / $297.2 million, the highest total ever achieved in a single...
The first tranche of a remarkable archive of work by a Derbyshire miner who became a successful artist in the Modern British canon comes up for sale at Mallams in December. The cache of paintings, drawings and prints by George Bissill (1896-1973) has been consigned by an Oxford lady whose father was left the contents of the artist’s home and studio in Ashmansworth, Hampshire almost 40 years ago. “The paintings have not been seen since...
Painter Lily Lewis’ exhibition Safe Places aims to raise awareness for domestic abuse victims. (Top of page, Lily Lewis with Unknown 9.) In partnership with Petersham Nurseries and UK charity, Refuge, the artist’s new collection shines a light on the complicated and often silent suffering of domestic abuse victims, cases of which have risen by over 61% in 2020 over lockdown. Running from June to July 2021 at The Petersham Nurseries in Covent Garden, the...
As an actor, Timothy Spall needs little introduction, but since his thorough preparation for his award-winning role as Samuel Turner in the Mike Leigh film Mr Turner in 2014, Spall has made his own foray into painting. His experience provided the spark and confidence to set himself a rigorous and public challenge of an exhibition, Out of the Storm, to be held at Pontone Gallery in London from 18th June to 18th July. Mounting such...
Winston Churchill’s Art and His Inspiration to Paint Winston Churchill’s Art has sold for record prices at auction. But what inspired the great man to paint? Paintings by Sir Winston Churchill have sold at Christie’s in London for record prices. One, Tower Of The Koutoubia Mosque, (seen above), owned by Angelina Jolie, sold to an unidentified buyer for £8.285m. The sale price was almost four times the upper pre-sale estimate and it also beat...
Grove Square Galleries has announced Rewild, a solo exhibition by British artist Orlanda Broom, from 29th April – 11th June 2021. Featuring a new series of paintings created over the course of the last lockdown year, these buoyant works provide a colourful escape from our current state of being. Through her signature lush and saturated style, the artist depicts worlds both fantastical and surreal, absent of human or animal but abundant with sprawling nature. Broom’s...
