Journeyings: Recent Works on Paper by Frank Bowling RA at the Royal Academy

LONDON.- An exhibition exploring recent works on paper by the painter Frank Bowling RA is on view from May 27 through October 23, 2011 at the Royal Academy of Arts. Bowling’s art reflects his travels, actual and aesthetic, between his birthplace of British Guiana (now Guyana) and his homes and studios in London and New York; between the tradition of English landscape painting and the legacy of American Abstract Expressionism. Frank Bowling RA (b. 1936), Greenacross I, 2009. Acrylic paint [...]

Exhibition at Yale Center for British Art Highlights Major Works by Abstract Painters

NEW HAVEN, CT.- This fall, the Yale Center for British Art launched its 2010–11 season with an exhibition of major works by postwar British artists who came to maturity in the 1960s. The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie features thirty paintings and fourteen works on paper by Patrick Caulfield, John Walker, R. B. Kitaj, Howard Hodgkin, and Ian Stephenson, in addition to paintings by John Hoyland, England’s foremost abstract painter, all drawn [...]

Sotheby’s to Sell Group of Exceptional Paintings from the Collection of Supermodel Jerry Hall

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale a group of 14 outstanding and revealing Contemporary artworks from the Collection of Jerry Hall, the world-famous American supermodel and actress, in its forthcoming October 2010 Contemporary Art sales, which coincide with London’s Frieze Art Fair. The artworks, together estimated to realise in excess of £1.5 million, will be offered in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Friday, 15 October and Contemporary Art Day Auction on Saturday, 16 October. This exceptional [...]