| GERALDINE GIRVAN 2009 2 JUNE - 27 JUNE 2009
Geraldine Girvan 2009
Geraldine Girvan has been exhibiting at the Chris Beetles Gallery for twenty years and, in that time, she has consistently proven that the strong tradition of Scottish colourists is still very much alive.
The resulting work, in oil and watercolour, tends to present a domestic paradise, by blurring the distinction between interior and exterior, and also between objects and surfaces.
In addition to regular – biennial – shows at Chris Beetles Gallery, she has exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Royal Watercolour Society.
“These are the kind of pictures which make you glad to get up in the morning to catch your first glimpse of them and rejoice again that they are in your possession and adorn your house. They are full of sunshine and clear light, they radiate optimism and …What more can a painter do?”
Paul Johnson
(originally published in The Spectator, 21 March 2007)
A fully illustrated 28 page colour catalogue is available from the gallery at £10 (post free in the UK, + £2.50 Europe, + £4 Rest of the world)
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| THE DEFINITIVE THELWELL - The first show of work by Norman Thelwell in 20 years 13 MAY - 13 JUNE 2009
The most popular cartoonist since the Second World War, Thelwell is best remembered for his little girls and their cheeky fat ponies. However, he was a wide-ranging artist who surveyed an impressive range of social subjects for a variety of newspapers and periodicals, most notably Punch. The show contains 177 works spanning his entire career.
A fully illustrated 100 page catalogue, with a biographical chronology, an evaluative essay and a full bibliography is available from the gallery at £15 + p&p (£2 UK, £2.50 Europe, £5 Rest of the world).
Copyright in all works by Norman Thelwell is the property of The Estate of Norman Thelwell. None of Norman Thelwell's work may be copied, distributed, published, licensed, used or reproduced in any way without the express advance permission in writing of the agent, Momentum Licensing. For all enquiries, please contact:
Ann Mansbridge
Momentum Licensing
Manor Farm Studio
Cleveley
Chipping Norton
Oxfordshire OX7 4DY
Telephone: 01608 677 900
Fax: 01608 677 101
Email: momentum@fezbro.com
www.thelwell.org.uk
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| CECIL BEATON - IN ASSOCIATION WITH SOTHEBY'S 22 APRIL - 16 MAY 2009
Chris Beetles Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of Cecil Beaton photographs in collaboration with Sotheby’s. From 22 April – 16 May 2009 photographs taken by this renowned photographer will be on display in our newly refurbished Ryder Street galleries.
Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) was essential to the cultural life of Britain and beyond in the twentieth century, both as a creator and a recorder. He was a photographer, painter, illustrator, writer and Oscar-winning designer of sets and costumes.
Placing himself at the centre of fashionable society in the 1920s, Beaton was instrumental in presenting and promoting both the Sitwells and their circle and the Bright Young Things that surrounded Stephen Tennant. As published in Vogue, Tatler and Vanity Fair, his portraits and fashion plates summed up the dazzling era with elegance and wit.
Ever the aesthete, Beaton the photographer cultivated a genius for staging compelling scenes. By employing theatrical costumes and props, experimenting with materials and mirrors, and referencing the history of art, he created an extraordinary sense of occasion for each of his sitters.
By the late 1930s, Beaton was so well established that his sitters included stars of stage and screen on both sides of the Atlantic, and even leading members of the Royal Family. During the Second World War, he expanded his repertoire further by taking photographs for the Ministry of Information, on the home front and abroad. Then, after the war, he became part of a new world of glamour: helping to make such icons as Mick Jagger, David Hockney and Andy Warhol, and infl uencing such signifi cant younger photographers as David Bailey.
As the most comprehensive Beaton exhibition of recent times, the show will combine 64 vintage and modern prints, the latter produced from original negatives drawn from Sotheby’s unique archive. Each modern print will be available in an edition of 50, authenticated with the archive’s official stamp.
Accompanying the exhibition will be a 92 page, fully illustrated catalogue.Containing two essays plus a foreword by Mario Testino, it is available from the gallery for £10 + £2 postage (UK only).
Please follow this link for a full biography
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| THE ILLUSTRATORS AT NUNNINGTON HALL, YORKSHIRE 18 FEBRUARY - 19 APRIL 2009
Nunnington Hall is a delight. Situated in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, this ancient manor house, dating from the 1680s, is now owned by the National Trust.
A visit to Nunnington Hall is the perfect day out, combining a fascinating house, extensive gardens and delicious homemade cooking. The exhibition is pretty good too.
The Illustrators samples the quality and range of British illustration over four centuries from Rowlandson and Tenniel through Rackham and Heath Robinson to Quentin Blake and Michael Foreman.
There is a strong emphasis on images for the young, with examples of fables, fairy tales and children’s stories, both classic and contemporary, from Aesop to Paddington Bear. Strip cartoons and animation are also represented at their best by Dan Dare and Walt Disney. Children are themselves portrayed with unparalleled charm by Mabel Lucie Attwell and E H Shepard.
Adult tastes are well catered for with social cartoons and portrait caricatures, and illustrations to classic writers: notably Scott and Shakespeare, by Eric Fraser, and Dickens and Thackeray, by Edward Ardizzone.
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| BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY 2008 9 DECEMBER 2008 - 3 JANUARY 2009
After three successful years of promoting the best of 20th Century British photography, we celebrate with an exhibition of the best-selling prints so far.
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| THE ILLUSTRATORS 2008 - THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION 1800-2008 15 NOVEMBER 2008 - 3 JANUARY 2009
“A Christmas treat and a source of tremendous presents, with 70% of the exhibits costing £1000 or less”
Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times Culture Section
The world’s largest selection of original illustrative artwork for sale
A thrilling display of over 1000 pictures detailing over 200 years of this nostalgic and cultural significant artform.
For 27 years the Chris Beetles Gallery has been famous for promoting the art and history of illustration. This year’s exhibition will be the largest ever.
Accompanying the exhibition will be a 140 page comprehensive cataloguesumptuous 140 page catalogue. Containing biographies, notes and 342 illustrations it is available from the gallery for £15 + £2 postage (UK only).
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| 'BLISS WAS IT IN THAT DAWN TO BE ALIVE' - BRITISH WATERCOLOURS & DRAWINGS 1750 - 1850 7 OCTOBER - 7 NOVEMBER 2008
The Chris Beetles Gallery is proud to announce one of the most significant exhibitions of early English watercolours since ‘The Great Age of British Watercolours: 1750-1880’ at the Royal Academy in 1993. Ten years in the making, with over 300 examples of the finest quality and condition, this substantial show will provide an opportunity to rediscover and reassess one of the most innovative periods in British art.
From the late eighteenth century, technical developments in watercolour and other portable media allowed several generations of young artists to record their experience of the world at home and abroad in fresh, and even revolutionary, ways – so paralleling the poetry of the Romantics. While retaining an individual sense of vision, many of these watercolourists banded together in societies to promote their art and so raise the status of the landscape and figure genres they made their own.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 176 page comprehensive catalogue, with newly researched and written essays and biographies, and over 300 colour images. It will be available from the gallery for £20 + £4 postage (UK only).
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| FUCK: THE HUMAN ODYSSEY - AN EXHIBITION OF ARTWORK FROM THE BOOK BY MICHAEL ROWSON 22 - 27 SEPTEMBER 2008
THE STORY OF THE EARTH FROM THE BIG BANG TO THE END OF THE WORLD IN 67 SPLENDIDLY SATIRICAL IMAGES
This is a brave and important book in the history of graphic humour. Hopeless and despairing as it is in this collection, humour is one of the only weapons left that artists have to fight the relentless greed and cruelty of progress. FUCK is a remarkable book which will further comfort the sensibilities of Mankind in the face of the bleak inevitability of Evolution.
Martin Rowson has been a full-time freelance cartoonist since graduating from Cambridge University in 1982. His cartoons have appeared regularly in The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Mirror, The Independent on Sunday, The Scotsman, The Spectator, Tribune, The Morning Star and many other publications. Twice winner of the Cartoon Museum's Political Cartoonist of the Year, he has also produced many books, including a memoir, "Stuff", a novel called "Snatches" and graphic adaptations of TS Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy".
He was appointed Cartoonist Laureate for London by Ken Livingstone in 2001 (and reappointed by Boris Johnson in 2008, subject to terms and conditions), and is also an honorary associate of The National Secular Society, a trustee of The Cartoon Museum and a former vice-president of the Zoological Society of London.
His latest book tells the story of Earth, from the Big Bang, the emergence of life, the death of the dinosaurs, the dawn of civilization, the invention of the wheel, the Trojan War, the Crucifixion, the Fall of Rome, the Black Death, the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution, World War One, Nazism, consumerism, the Cold War, 9/11 and beyond to the End of the World, in sixty seven beautiful, savage, splendidly satirical images, all with only one word in the speech bubbles.
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| THE LAST SOPER SHOW - A FINAL EXHIBITION OF THE ARTWORK OF GEORGE AND EILEEN SOPER 10 - 27 SEPTEMBER 2008
Since 1989 Chris Beetles Limited has managed and marketed the estate of George and Eileen Soper on behalf of the Artists General Benevolent Institution to whom Eileen Soper willed all future income. The increasing popularity and collectability of these two artists has resulted a large and steady income for this charity and, with this in mind, Chris Beetles has not increased the retail prices of the etchings and artwork which now routinely make more in auction.
This exhibition will be the very last ever Chris Beetles exhibition dedicated to all aspects of their art; book illustrations, wild life watercolours and etchings. In addition we will be launching a large group of delightful inexpensive wild life drawings that have never before seen the light of day!
All watercolours and drawings are priced framed.
All etchings are priced unframed.
Pictures will be taken off the website as they are sold.
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| Louis Wain & The Summer Cat Show 2008
The exhibition centers on more than 100 fine paintings and drawings by Louis Wain (1860-1939). This celebrated, highly collectable Edwardian artist invented a wacky world of cats engaged in human activities such as golf, ice skating, fishing and dancing. Also included in the show will be work by celebrated gallery artists Lesley Fotherby, Leslie Anne Ivory, and Geraldine Girvan.
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| Quentin Blake and Friends at Nunnington Hall 1 July - 7 September 2008
Nunnington Hall is a delight. Situated in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, this ancient manor house, dating from the 1680s, is now owned by the National Trust.
A visit to Nunnington Hall is the perfect day out, combining a fascinating house, extensive gardens and delicious homemade cooking. The exhibition is pretty good too.
Three of England’s leading illustrators - Michael Foreman, Peter Brookes and Emma Chichester Clark join their close friend Quentin Blake for an exhibition of 120 artworks demonstrating the narrative and fantastical fun of their artistic range.
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| The Chris Beetles Summer Show 2008 11 June 2008 and continues throughout the summer
This year’s exhibition traces the continuing importance of landscape for native artists – from ALBERT GOODWIN’s synthesis of Turnerian atmosphere and Pre-Raphaelite precision at the turn of the twentieth century to the contemporary Neo-Romanticism of KEITH GRANT.
For the first time in the Summer Show, a substantial group of photographs complements the paintings. A selection of masterpieces by EDWIN SMITH, the greatest photographer of British architecture and landscape, shows how our native love of the land has affected every visual medium.
In addition, the exhibition presents some highly distinctive examples of figuration and abstraction in twentieth-century British art. Sculpture is represented by the striking imagery of PAUL DAY.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 56-page fully illustrated catalogue, available for £10 UK post free from the gallery.
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| Lichfield 14 May - 4 June 2008
Patrick Lichfield’s photography has graced the world’s media for over forty years.
We are thrilled to announce the first-ever selling show of his remarkable work.
Lichfield’s archive is a rich seam of culturally important photography, much of which has become synonymous with our perception of the celebrated and fashionable in the late 20th century. Since his death in 2005 his archive has been extensively catalogued, and we will show a selection of these well-known images alongside recent discoveries made public for the first time.
A fully illustrated, 73 page catalogue, with a comprehensive biography, is available from the gallery at £10 post free.
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| The Cartoonists 2008 - The Second Annual Cartoon Show 8 April - 3 May 2008
Following on from the gallery’s highly successful exhibition last year, You Havin’ a Laugh? we are proud to present another selling show devoted to the art of British cartooning.
We have brought together some of Britain's best-loved cartoonists from publications such as The Times, The Sunday Times, Private Eye, The Spectator, the Daily Express, the Evening Standard, the Telegraph, Punch, and The Economist, representing the best British cartoons of the last 100 years.
The great variety and diversity of cartoons are reflected in the range of prices, with works from £50-£5000.
This exhibition includes over 600 cartoons. You can view 100 of these online by clicking the links below.
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| John Swannell - Portraits, Nudes and Fashion Photography 19 March - 3 May 2008
John Swannell’s reputation as one of the biggest names in British photography is no accident, his consistently inventive work and unerring professionalism having kept him in demand by press and public for over 35 years.
Our retrospective show will include over 60 of John Swannell’s pictures, juxtaposing classic images with lesser-known, more intimate portraits and those new to the public eye. John’s witty approach to portraiture gives us national darling Joanna Lumley like a latter day Cruella de Vil, a combative looking Queen Elizabeth II guarding the banqueting hall at Windsor Castle, Spike Milligan distinctly unamused in his back garden, Sir John Gielgud leaping into the air at eighty, and many more unusual and insightful portraits.
We will also hang a group of spectacular nudes. Produced in a limited edition of 25 platinum prints, these images represent the best of his career-long devotion to the genre.
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| Recording Britain: The Twentieth Century Landscape 20 February - 15 March 2008
At the outbreak of the Second World War, the influential art historian Sir Kenneth Clark initiated an ambitious extension of the Official War Artist scheme, calling it 'Recording Britain'.
Our exhibition is in the spirit of that project. It aims to encapsulate the variety and beauty of Britain as it changed throughout the century, and highlight the renaissance in landscape painting that occurred during the period.
We will include over two hundred watercolours, oils, drawings, etchings, and photographs by some of the great artists of twentieth century, many of whom were involved in Recording Britain.
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| The Illustrators - The British Art of Illustration 1800-2007 24 November 2007 - 5 January 2008
The world’s biggest event for illustration enthusiasts and collectors celebrates its 26th anniversary.
A full history of this most culturally significant of art forms, from Thomas Rowlandson to Quentin Blake.
With 1000 pictures on the wall covering 200 years of art history, The illustrators will be one of London’s most exciting exhibitions this winter.
“A Christmas treat and a source of tremendous presents, with 70% of the exhibits costing £1000 or less”
Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times Culture Section
Accompanying the exhibition will be our biggest ever catalogue. Its 450 pages of academic essays, erudite biographies, full bibliographies and over 700 full colour images will represent the most comprehensive text on illustration published to date and will be available from the gallery for £25 + £5 postage (UK only).
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| Val Archer - The Painter, The Cook and The Art of Cucina 22 October - 10 November 2007
The Painter, the Cook, and the Art of Cucina is Val Archer’s latest spectacular achievement. One of Britain’s leading still-life painters Val Archer has collaborated with the great Italian food expert Anna del Conte to produce a unique food travelogue through six of Italy’s lesser-known regions.
The book is a visual feast of Italian produce, with recipes and food history celebrating the very best regional and seasonal specialities at the heart of Italy’s Slow Food Movement. Our selling exhibition will feature over 100 of Val Archer’s stunning oil paintings and watercolours from this appetising book.
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| Terry O'Neill - Sinatra: Frank & Friendly
Frank Sinatra is a truly iconic legend and few photographers worked more closely with him than Terry O'Neill.
Our exhibition will accompany the launch of his new book 'Sinatra: Frank and Friendly' and will feature the best images from his long association with the star.
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| Beastly Feasts and other artwork by Ronald Searle
An exhibition to mark the publication of Beastly Feasts, a new collection of entertaining rhymes by Robert L Forbes about animals both naughty and nice, with charming illustrations by master caricaturist Ronald Searle. As well as the illustrations from this delectable new book, this exhibition contains a range of comical and illustrative artwork for sale by the world’s most famous living illustrator-cartoonist Ronald Searle. Beastly Feasts is available from the gallery at £12.99 plus £2 UK postage. Suitable for ages 7-77.
Until 27 October 2007
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| Terence Donovan - Image Maker and Innovator 19 September - 13 October 2007
When he died in 1996 legendary photographer Terence Donovan left behind an archive of over one million pictures, a comprehensive visual history of British culture and fashion over nearly 40 years. Featuring over 80 images, our exhibition will juxtapose many of his best-known images with some that have not been seen for decades, and others that have never been released at all. A fully illustrated, 107 page catalogue is available from the gallery at £10 post free.
19 September - 13 October 2007
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| Louis Wain & The Summer Cat Show 2007 - 18 August - 8 September 2007
The annual spectacular with the world’s largest display of cat imagery on show
The exhibition centers on more than 100 fine paintings and drawings by Louis Wain (1860-1939). Chris Beetles is the principal dealer of this celebrated Edwardian artist who invented a wacky world of cats engaged in human activities such as golf, ice skating, fishing and dancing. Also included in the show will be work by celebrated gallery artists Lesley Fotherby, Leslie Anne Ivory, and Geraldine Girvan.
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| WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON (1872-1944) - THE 20TH CENTURY'S GADGET KING 11 JULY - 11 AUGUST 2007
A selling exhibition of 101 original illustrations to coincide with the launch of CONTRAPTIONS - a new volume of the most brilliant and memorable work by the cartoon wizard of machines and inventions. Heath Robinson is best known for his comic images and through the popular press he was recognised by the public as the ‘Gadget King’.
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| Ronald Searle at Nunnington Hall 3rd July - 2nd September 2007
Nunnington, Nr York, North Yorkshire, YO62 5UY · 3rd July 2007 to 2nd September 2007
A selling show of 50 pictures by the world’s most famous living illustrator-cartoonist.
Famous for his illustrations from Lilliput and Molesworth and his St Trinian’s girls’ school horrors, the exhibition will contain original artwork from his early period as well as Punch cartoons from the 1950s-1970s; political reportage; film, literature and theatrical portraiture and cartoons from Le Monde and the New Yorker.
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| Albert Goodwin RWS (1845-1932)
Albert Goodwin (1845-1932) was probably the greatest follower of Turner. Travelling beyond Europe to India, the South Seas, Australia and the USA, he was the last of the great Victorian travelling artists, developing and extending Turner’s aesthetic and vision. The exhibition follows the museum blockbuster event Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites at Tate Britain, and The Poetry of Truth: Alfred William Hunt and the Art of Landscape at the Ashmolean, which have demonstrated a revival of interest in the influence of Turner on Later Victorian artists. Along with Alfred William Hunt, Goodwin was the most successful artist to follow Ruskin’s appeal to synthesise Turner’s atmospherics with Pre-Raphaelite precision.
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| The Chris Beetles Summer Show 2007
The annual Summer show is the gallery’s most prestigious exhibition of the year.
Highlights include Stanley Roy Badmin’s masterwork Heath Village, a large group of drawings and oils by Feliks Topolski , and sculpture by London’s monumental artist of the moment, Paul Day. There will also be significant groups by Robert Sargent Austin, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, Peter Coker, Cecil Arthur Hunt, Muriel Pemberton, Beatrice Parsons and others. All images can be viewed below in artist order.
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| HAVING A LAUGH! - THE BRITISH ART OF THE CARTOON 24 APRIL - 31 MAY 2007
A selection of some of Britain’s best-loved cartoonists (and some of the most reviled) from publications such as The Times, Private Eye, Daily Express, Evening Standard, Punch and many more. Including contemporary political satire of the peerless Peter Brookes, hilarious gags from punchline masterminds Ed McLachlan and Mike Williams, down to earth dark humour from Tony Husband, wry social observation from Nick Newman and Kipper Williams and as usual, some of the best British cartoons of the last 100 years from such masters as H M Bateman, Bill Hewison, Vicky and Giles.
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| QUENTIN BLAKE - A CELEBRATION 25 MARCH - 7 APRIL 2007
The Chris Beetles Gallery presents a selling exhibition of 150 original drawings and watercolours by Quentin Blake, the world's favourite living children’s illustrator. The show features a selection of his most recent work as well as old favourites. Images include familiar faces from children's classics such as the BFG, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Arabel's Raven and many more. Signed copies of a large range of Quentin Blake publications are available from the gallery
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