| SALE 2012 - Our 13th Annual Show 21 January - 4 February 2012
Our ANNUAL SALE has now become a popular part of the art calendar – albeit for a brief two week period.
We have delved deep into our fine art warehouses (one of which we are attempting to empty) and many new pictures have come to light that we have no firm plans to exhibit over the next 5 years. The problem of having the biggest stock in the country has been turned into an advantage in this way, and collectors and buyers seem to agree as they have come back year-after-year over the last decade.
It is possible that during this time more pictures will be added to the website, walls and the piles on the tables, so please pop in to see us or return for another view online, at www.chrisbeetles.com.
There are hundreds of pictures under £40 that can only be viewed in the gallery, and as pictures sell they will be taken off the website.
We hope to welcome you again to the gallery but will respond quickly and efficiently by telephone (020 7839 7551) and email (gallery@chrisbeetles.com) after you have enjoyed browsing the selection online.
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| THE PHOTOGRAPHERS AT NUNNINGTON HALL 26 SEPTEMBER - 31 OCTOBER 2011
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| PERCEPTIONS, PATRICK LICHFIELD (1939-2005) 07 DECEMBER 2011 - 07 JANUARY 2012
Lichfield started taking photographs from the age of eight. He never stopped. With the pressure of a difficult home life, and the weight of family responsibility on his shoulders, photography promised an exciting escape. It was at Harrow School that his photographic and entrepreneurial flare first shone through, when he undercut the school’s hired portrait photographer and took the leaver portraits of his friends and fellow classmates.
After school, Lichfield enrolled at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. However, photography was his real passion, and he left the army to pursue a career as full-time photographer. His family was not encouraging, one member in particular declaring that a photographer was ‘worse than being an interior decorator, only marginally better than a hairdresser.’ However, typically, he did not listen and went on to fulfil an immensely successful forty-year career.
Lichfield had an ability to capture people at ease. Often portraying a variety of moments and natural poses, he revealed the true character of his subjects. He was equally happy photographing the social scene of the Swinging Sixties and the Royal Family, as he was documenting London and its social issues. He was often found on the streets of East London snapping away at the stall holders and market sellers, or in Hyde Park photographing the characters found at Speakers’ Corner.
Lichfield’s ability to get along with people from all parts of society was crucial to his career, and is widely evident in the legacy he has left behind. A loyal friend to many, he had few airs and graces. His diverse interests brought him into contact with people from every walk of life.
Perceptions was created to show the lesser-known aspects of Lichfield’s rich archive. Whilst fans of his portraiture will find much to enjoy, they will also delight in a wealth of images that they might have not associated with the photographer. Our exhibition will be a mixture of new and unseen work, vintage prints and iconic pictures taken from all periods of his career. It is a testament to his love of photography, whether he was in the studio, on the streets, in far flung locations or at his beloved home in the country, and it just might change perceptions of Lichfield’s work.
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| THE ILLUSTRATORS 2011 - THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION 1837-2011 19 November 2011 - 7 January 2012
Chris Beetles Gallery welcomes you to an annual extravaganza of humour, imagination and creativity. The annual ILLUSTRATORS, is the largest and most popular exhibition worldwide for cartoon and illustration collectors, with over 800 pictures and representing over 85 illustrators and cartoonists from the last two centuries.
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| PRIVATE EYE CARTOONISTS - PRIVATE EYE – THE FIRST 50 YEARS 13 October – 12 November 2011
For 50 years cartoonists have been entertaining the nation, in the pages of Private Eye, with their deft wit and energetic draughtsmanship. This anniversary exhibition, displaying over 180 works, bears witness to the vigour and range of the cartoonists’ art, which has formed the visual backbone of this highly irreverent, often controversial fortnightly satirical magazine.
This exhibition is launched to coincide with the commemorative display hosted at the V&A and the publication of the new book Private Eye: The First 50 Years written by Adam MacQueen and published by Private Eye Productions Ltd. This impressive and comprehensive, hard back, full-colour book, with 311 pages, is available to buy from the gallery for £25 plus p+p (£5 UK, £15 Europe, £27 Rest of the World).
Click here to buy a copy of the book PRIVATE EYE The First 50 Years
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| HARD TIMES - PETER BROOKES 11 October 2011 – 5 November 2011
A Selling show of original artwork of Peter Brookes' most recent satirical cartoons from The Times, and the launch of the book insightfully lampooning the vagaries of domestic and world politics.
Signed copies of Hard Times are available to purchase from the gallery at £16.99 + p&p (£3 UK, £6.50 Europe, £12 World).
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| LESLEY FOTHERBY 2011 - THE WORLD IN MOTION 3 - 22 October 2011
Multi-talented and multi-faceted gallery artist, Lesley Fotherby, goes from strength to strength in expanding her range and increasing her popularity.
This comprehensive and ambitious exhibition of Lesley's work explores the natural world and human form in motion – from large and decorative oils to the fresh and spontaneous delights of her watercolours. Lesley's landscapes, seascapes, and dancers in motion reveal a continuing pleasure and passion for the movement and rhythms of the world around her.
The following fully illustrated catalogue to accompany the exhibition is available from the gallery – Please click on the links below for further information about each title:
LESLEY FOTHERBY The World in Motion
Other publications include:
LESLEY FOTHERBY 1996
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| STEVE MCCURRY 7 - 24 SEPTEMBER 2011
Chris Beetles Fine Photographs, London’s foremost photography gallery, is delighted to announce the a major exhibition of work by Steve McCurry, one of the most influential photographers alive today. Taking inspiration from Henri Cartier-Bresson, McCurry has continued in the same spirit of intrepid and striking photojournalism, making it his own through his singular use of colour.
Steve McCurry was born in 1950, in Philadelphia, USA. He first came into the spotlight in the late 1970s when he dressed himself in native clothing and went into Afghanistan – just before the Russian invasion. His resulting images, smuggled out by sewing the film into his clothes, were the first to depict the conflict and were published worldwide. As a result of the quality of the work and the daring of the enterprise, he was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from abroad requiring exception courage and enterprise, the first of many major awards.
Since this life-changing moment, McCurry has worked ceaselessly, travelling the world to cover the human consequences of war, from Iraq to Cambodia. However, he is not a war photographer – his work is broad, encompassing the many facets of the best documentary photography. His enduring interest in people, and his wonder at the beauty of our planet, continues to drive him – as a photographer of the human condition.
McCurry’s uncanny ability to capture 'the decisive moment’ has made him sought after by many international publications. One particular cover for 'National Geographic Magazine' has become perhaps the world’s most recognisable photograph – his 'Afghan Girl’, a portrait of an unidentified refugee taken in 1984. Her haunting beauty – with her piercing green eyes and red headscarf – transfixed readers worldwide, bringing the plight of her and her fellow refugees to international attention. The image has since graced the covers of countless books, magazines and posters. In 2002, McCurry and a team from National Geographic revisited Afghanistan and identified the girl – who had never seen the photograph.
McCurry’s archive contains much more than just this one image. He has found inspiration and wonder in many places, plucking exquisite, richly-coloured images out of split-second moments from Tokyo to Havana. However, nowhere has provided him with so much material as South Asia, a place McCurry has visited over 70 times. In particular, our exhibition will feature a large number of his vibrant and enchanting images from the Indian Subcontinent, from the Holi Festival in Rajasthan to the monsoon rains that engulf Calcutta. Also featured will be McCurry’s images of Cambodia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Kuwait, Cuba and many other countries that have caught his ceaselessly inquisitive eye.
Our exhibition promises to be one of the most popular and engaging photography exhibitions in London this autumn.
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| LOUIS WAIN & THE SUMMER CAT SHOW 2011 20 August - 10 September 2011
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| JANE PINKNEY - A RETROSPECTIVE 9 AUGUST - 18 SEPTEMBER 2011
Jane Pinkney grew up on the rural outskirts of the industrial Yorkshire towns of Barnsley, Bradford and Middlesbrough. Whilst her father was a mechanical engineer, it was his keen interest in botany that inspired her love of nature and her active imagination, which found form in her early and accomplished watercolours. Achieving continued successes in local and national competitions, she had her first exhibition at the age of 15 at Middlesbrough Art Gallery.
Early in her married life she lived at Hanging Hill Farm, Kennythorpe, an old farmhouse, with a varied population of domestic and other smaller furry beasts, which increasingly became the subject of her illustrations, and inspired her greatest success through her illustrations for The Mice of Nibbling Village, Mouse Mischief, and Rumer Godden’s Mouse Time, in the 1980s and 90s, gaining her a reputation in the national press, as the next Beatrix Potter. Her unique and nostalgic depictions of mice dressed in cloth caps, and patchwork dresses, are represented in all manner of domestic pastimes, superbly articulated in rich colour and rendered in minute detail.
Twenty years later her illustrations are exhibited for the first time, and available to buy, at the beautiful and historic Nunnington Hall, near York, where she has recently been commissioned to paint a series of its interiors, inhabited by her mischievous mice.
Chris Beetles Gallery is pleased to represent her work, which will form a major component of this year’s ILLUSTRATORS exhibition, opening during the weekend of 19 and 20 November 2011, and on display until January 2012.
The exhibition opens at Nunnington Hall, North Yorkshire, on 9 August and runs until 18 September 2011.
The Mice of Nibbling Village has been republished by the National Trust and Anova, 2011, ISBN 9781843651895
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| CORNEL LUCAS 20 JULY - 27 AUGUST 2011
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| THE GENIUS OF MERVYN PEAKE - A CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF HIS ART 18/07/11 UNTIL 13/08/11
The following MERVYN PEAKE BOOKS are available from the gallery – Please click on the links below for further information about each title:
The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy
Titus Awakes - The Lost Book of Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake Collected Poems
Mervyn Peake Complete Nonsense
The Sunday Books
Under a Canvas Sky - Living Outside Gormenghast
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| SUMMER SHOW 2011 - Celebrating 25 years at 10 Ryder Street, St James's 28 June - Continues throughout the summer
This year, Chris Beetles Gallery celebrates a quarter of a century at 10 Ryder Street, St James’s. As a result, it is mounting a particularly special Summer Show. At its heart lie 25 works by Albert Goodwin and 25 by Keith Grant, encapsulating Chris Beetles’ own definite and developing taste for a Romantic tradition in English landscape. As always, the exhibition also contains a wide range of the very best of British art from the early nineteenth century to today.
To view a PDF of the catalogue which includes 50 colour plates, 25 by Albert Goodwin and 25 by Keith Grant, and their accompanying notes and essays, please CLICK HERE.
Details of the illustrated catalogue are available to view HERE and can be purchased from the gallery, by contacting gallery@chrisbeetles.com or 020 7839 7551.
A comprehensive list of our past Summer Show catalogues is available to view on our PUBLICATIONS PAGE.
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| EASTERN EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND ITS INFLUENCE 15 JUNE - 16 JULY 2011
A small exhibition of works by Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, Klára Langer, Martin Munkásci, Josef Sudek, Antanas Sutkus, and others to celebrate the importance and influence of Eastern European photography.
This is just a selection of the 30 prints that we will hang in the exhibition. Please contact the gallery for further information.
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| WIT AND WISDEN - A Celebration of Cricket 1 - 18 June 2011
A Celebration of Cricket in 200 paintings and cartoons from the last 200 years,
including work by Glen Baxter, Peter Cross, George Du Maurier, Tony Husband,
John Jensen, Larry, Ed Mclachlan, Matt, Nick Newman, Arthur Rackham,
Frank Reynolds, William Heath Robinson, Willie Rushton, E H Shepard and Vicky
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| WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON AND GERARD HOFFNUNG - INSTRUMENTS AND INVENTIONS: A DUET OF EXHIBITIONS CELEBRATING BRITISH COMIC GENIUS 25 May - 22 June 2011
Though a highly versatile artist, William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was dubbed the Gadget King in his own lifetime, and has remained synonymous with ridiculously complicated machines and inventions.
This comprehensive exhibition, of 270 works, will explore Heath Robinson’s achievement with breadth and imagination – placing his ingenious cartoons in the context of his work of an illustrator, with which he even rivalled Arthur Rackham.
Heath Robinson’s cartoons reflect a very English response to progress, and particularly the technological developments of the early twentieth century, in both war and peace. They portray his compatriots as engaged in highly unlikely tasks, which they accomplish in an earnest and painstaking manner.
The show will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue available from the gallery at £15 p+p (£3 UK, £5 Europe, £10 World)
The gallery is also playing host to the famous international touring exhibition of GERARD HOFFNUNG. The show includes many of his best known musical cartoons from the family’s own collection.
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| VAL ARCHER 2011 - Touching the surface of time Wednesday 11 – Saturday 28 May 2011
Over 90 works celebrate 15 happy years with the gallery
There is much in this exhibition that will strike admirers of Val Archer’s paintings as new and different. She has painted mosaics and textured wall surfaces with their remnants of frescoes, developing an interest in their three-dimensional quality, and the infinite range of colours in the stone, marble and ceramic tesserae. However, there is much also that is consistent and familiar, and as always her work communicates the beauties and pleasures of life.
Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated 70 page catalogue with accompanying essays, giving you a true flavour of the show and the artist's work. This beautiful catalogue is available from the gallery at just £10 + p&p (£2 UK, £3 Europe, £5 World).
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| BRUCE DAVIDSON 4 MAY - 28 MAY 2011
At 77, Bruce Davidson remains one of the world’s great photographers. A member of the prestigious Magnum Photos agency since 1958, he took inspiration from his friend and mentor, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and went on to redefine the genre of photojournalism with his singular style and methods.
Davidson, unlike other photographers before him, embedded himself in the world of his subjects for extended periods, he even joined a circus in 1958 in order to get the right pictures, the results of which formed themselves into series of powerful photo-essays. "Brooklyn Gang" and "East 100th Street" are perhaps his two most famous, and are the results of months and months living with both a gang of youths on Coney Island, and the inhabitants of a run-down tenement block in Harlem, New York. Through a combination of familiarity and his own visual poetry, Davidson brought these, and other subjects, to life in the many books and exhibitions that resulted from these projects.
Opening in May 2011, our exhibition will focus on several of these key photo-essays, namely, The Circus, Brooklyn Gang, Civil Rights Movement, East 100th Street, England/Scotland/Wales - 1960, and Central Park.
Davidson is mainly interested in documenting the struggles and triumphs of people as they go through their lives - the American Dream laid bare. His photographs are powerful, truthful, sometimes brutal, and often breathtaking. Through this honesty Davidson gives his subjects a voice and a platform to be remembered by, but he also finds the process personally satisfying. As he once said:
"My pictures are not escapes from reality, but a contemplation of reality, so that I can experience life in a deeper way."
Davidson has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two grants from the USA’s National Endowment for the Arts. He has had solo exhibitions at many major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington DC. He currently lives and works in New York.
"So I have done what I wanted to do, I have seen everything, misery, celebrity, the beautiful people, the wicked ones, generosity and hatred. But I think I have gone beyond my vision ... In the heart of my own life, in the heart of other people's lives. Perhaps that is the most important thing I have done."
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| HEATH ROBINSON - MACHINES AND INVENTIONS - At West House, Pinner, Middlesex Saturday 19 March - Sunday 17 April 2011
This unique exhibition celebrates the best-known aspect of the work of Heath Robinson. His cartoons and illustrations reflect a very English response to progress, and particularly the technological developments of the early twentieth century, in both war and peace. A love of detail and a feeling for landscape provide a believable context for the most bizarre activities, and make the drawings all the more entertaining.
William Heath Robinson and his family lived in Pinner, Middlesex, for a highly productive decade, from 1908, so that this exhibition will give visitors the opportunity to see the artist’s work on his home territory.
Set in Pinner Memorial Park, West House includes a gallery devoted to the work of Heath Robinson and a shop selling Heath Robinson related merchandise. However, this is the first time that West House has been able to stage a major selling show of the artist’s original artwork.
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| TERRY O'NEILL: 50 YEARS AT THE TOP 23/03/2011 - 23/04/2011
Celebrating half a century of his iconic photographs.
Including new and unseen prints from the 1960s.
It was 50 years ago that Terry O’Neill first picked up a camera, and began an astonishing career. First becoming a key photographer in London’s heady 1960s cultural milieu, he went on to capture most major stars of stage and screen, and has helped to define our very notion of ‘celebrity’. His famous photographs of Brigitte Bardot smoking a cigar, Frank Sinatra with his bodyguards sauntering down the Miami boardwalk and Faye Dunaway the morning after her Oscar win have become iconic images that have made Terry one of the world’s most popular and collectible photographers.
Terry’s work forms a visual Who’s Who of cinema, rock and pop music, theatre and fashion over five decades. His sitters include Bardot, Sinatra, Dunaway, Michael Caine, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Taylor, Catherine Deneuve, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, and his photographs offer an intimate insight into their lives, both private and public.
The exhibition will be a mix of exquisite small vintage prints and striking large modern prints that O’Neill has created from his original negatives. Many have never been seen before, having been discovered only in the last few months during extensive research of his archive.
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| WATERCOLOUR - A Celebration of Three Centuries of the English Art
400 superlative images comprise a survey of the art of watercolour from early topographers to contemporary masters, and from informal sketches to large-scale, finished exhibits. Landscape and townscape, figure and portrait, still life and illustration: all are rendered beautiful in this most versatile medium.
The exhibition is divided into 6 sections, each focusing on a different period and aspect of the art's rich history:
1. Early English Watercolourists
2. Private Worlds
3. Exhibiting Watercolour, Exhibiting the World
4. War
5. Recording Britain
6. Towards Abstraction and onto Today
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| GERALDINE GIRVAN 2011 10 February - End of March 2011
A new display of work by Geraldine Girvan brings the warmth of summer to a chill London February. Our very own Scottish colourist produces still life subjects, interiors and garden scenes that pulsate with scintillating colour and lush texture. In the words of Paul Johnson, ‘they are full of sunshine and clear light’ and ‘radiate optimism and confidence’, ensuring a very happy beginning to the year.
The exhibition at the gallery continues until the end of March.
Girvan also at Tempo
A display of work by Geraldine Girvan is currently enlivening Tempo, one of London’s brightest new restaurants, providing the best in modern Italian cooking.
www.tempomayfair.co.uk
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| EVE ARNOLD 9 FEB - 5 MARCH 2011
Eve Arnold is regarded as one of the finest photojournalists of the 20th century. Invited to join Magnum Photos in 1951 by Robert Capa, it was with Magnum that she travelled the world documenting areas of America, China, the Middle East and the United Kingdom. A master of both black & white and colour, Arnold thrived in the golden age of photojournalism, when publications gave photographers great resources and freedom to practice their art.
Opening in February 2011, this landmark exhibition comprises striking and sensitive works that capture not only iconic figures such as Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable but also the everyday lives of the less fortunate and the less known from around the world. Arnold had particular skills of empathy, whoever she was photographing, that helped her to build quick bonds of trust with her subjects. She once said, ‘What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing ... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph’ – if anything, Arnold’s work is about ‘people’.
The exhibition is a collaboration with the Tosca Photography Fund – one of the finest collections of photographs in the world. As a result, we have been able to source a unique array of work. The Tosca Photography Fund is managed by Zelda Cheatle, who is not only a friend of Eve Arnold, but was also her long-term gallerist – it was in this capacity that Zelda was able to have access to such rare and sought-after pieces. As a result, ours will be one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Eve Arnold’s work in recent years.
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| THE ILLUSTRATORS 2010 - THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION 1870-2010 20 NOVEMBER 2010 UNTIL 8 JANUARY 2011
Chris Beetles has championed the innovative world of illustration for the last thirty-five years, producing outstanding annual exhibitions and museum quality catalogues which have stimulated this formerly overlooked area of collectable art.
This extraordinary exhibition covers the remarkable history of British illustration, from the witty sketchbook observations of Charles Doyle, through centuries of commissions for Punch magazine to Quentin Blake’s distinctive illustrations for Roald Dahl’s The BFG.
Many of the artists included in this show are household names, and a particular highlight are two delightful Beatrix Potter sketches of Jeremy Fisher and Tom Kitten, characters from the tales which defined Potter’s career as an illustrator.
E H Shepard’s Winnie the Pooh makes a star appearance in a sketch entitled ‘Pooh and Piglet meet Mr Punch’. Another key feature of the show is Shepard’s pen and ink drawing depicting the moment when ‘Ratty and Mole call on Badger’ in Kenneth Grahame’s delightful The Wind in the Willows (1931).
Works from the innovative 1890s illustrator Aubrey Beardsley constitute an exciting addition. They illustrate the 1893-94 edition of Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur and demonstrate Beardsley’s liberation from his Victorian artistic peers.
We celebrate the most popular living cartoonist Ronald Searle with a range of artistic genius from his formidable career. Over forty of Searle’s works will be on display in the gallery, including his delightful contributions to the advertisements for Lemon Hart Rum, work for Punch and The New Yorker magazines, as well as his more recent humorous studies of cats.
This unique exhibition has the best of contemporary artists such as Quentin Blake, Paul Cox, Emma Chichester Clark, Oliver Jeffers and Nick Butterworth, creator of ‘Percy the Park-keeper’. Also featured in the exhibition are the lively watercolours of Michael Foreman, including illustrations for Michael Morpurgo’s Not Bad for a Bad Lad (2010) and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (2009).
To satisfy more humorous tastes, there is The Times’s renowned political cartoonist Peter Brookes and pocket cartoonist Matt, whose drawings have enriched the pages of the Daily Telegraph since 1988.
Accompanying the exhibition is a detailed 288 page catalogue with over 500 full colour images and accompanying essays, giving you a true flavour of the show and the artists featured. This beautiful catalogue is available from the gallery at just £20 + p&p (£4 UK, £7 Europe, £14 World).
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| THE PHOTOGRAPHERS 13-30 October 2010
43 photographers in a museum quality survey of twentieth-century photography.
Photography is the most culturally significant art form of the last 150 years, and yet prints are still available at prices that are low compared to other types of art. The market for photographs is large and varied, and is also full of opportunity – in terms of price but more importantly, content. As a reproducible medium, it is possible for a collector to purchase a masterpiece that also hangs in museums worldwide, but also to make discoveries that no one else can own.
In ‘The Photographers’, our first photographic exhibition to include international names, we have succeeded in demonstrating this appealing aspect of the market. Included are such celebrated images as Melancholic Tulip (1939) by André Kertész, The Daughter of the Dancers (1933) by Manuel Álvarez Bravo and a spectacular print of Winston Churchill (1941) by Yousuf Karsh. But, we also offer such lesser-known gems as Boy with a calf … (1908) by Lewis Hine, Self Portrait in a Distorting Mirror … (1950) by Eve Arnold, Study of a Marble Figure by Edwin Smith, and extraordinary, beautiful, camera-less images by Paul Kenny.
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| PATRICIA TOBACCO FORRESTER 29 September - 16 October 2010
‘Painting is an expression of my intense response to nature.’
We are delighted to announce the first European show of work by Patricia Tobacco Forrester, long acknowledged as one of America’s leading watercolourists.
According to John Arthur, an authority on contemporary American Realism, Patricia ‘is one of the artists most responsible for the revival of the medium and its adaptation to the large scale’. Furthermore, she stands out from her peers ‘in her insistence on working directly from nature’ (Spirit of Place, 1989, page 139).
Patricia has travelled widely in order to paint on location: across the United States, into Central and South America, out to Pacific and Caribbean islands, and over to Europe. The images that she brings back present vigorous landscapes with extraordinary immediacy: lush, intensely coloured vegetation framing enticing perspectives. Over the last four decades, these have been exhibited widely in American museums and galleries, and have entered many prestigious public and corporate collections. Her etchings are also held in the collections of the British Museum.
The show is accompanied by a fully illustrated biographical catalogue, which is available from the gallery at £10 (£2 UK, £3 Europe, £5 World).
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| EDWARD WESTON 8 - 25 SEPTEMBER 2010
Very few photographers have left a legacy as rich as that left by the great American Modernist, Edward Weston. He was one of the great photographic innovators, and is remembered for having pushed the boundaries of the medium to new levels. Weston was an artist who found beauty in everything, from a discarded pair of boots to a mountain range, and he helped see photography into its greatest period – when the camera’s mechanical clarity was at last embraced by artists, rather than smothered by artifice and hackneyed notions of the picturesque.
One of the key, early exponents of Modernism in America, Weston has become a major figure in art history. His efforts to celebrate the camera’s unique power, inspired an entire generation of photographers who sought to emulate his ‘straight photography’, as it became known. His work is held in virtually every museum collection that counts, and the original prints that he made fetch huge sums – in 2007, a vintage print of his famous Nautilus Shell photograph, 1927, sold for over $1,100,000 at Sotheby’s in New York.
The 37 prints in this exhibition were made by Edward Weston’s son Cole, in the decades after his Father’s death, from the original negatives, and come directly from the family. These prints were made in small numbers, with both exquisite precision and the qualities that Cole knew his father demanded. It is these prints that dominate the dynamic secondary market in Edward Weston’s work today, and give collectors a comparatively affordable opportunity to own a photographic masterpiece, by one of the great names in the photographic canon.
The show promises to be one of the most exciting photography exhibitions in London this autumn.
All Photographs by Edward Weston
©1981 Collection Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents
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| EDWIN SMITH 12 July and then throughout the summer
Edwin Smith (1912-1971) was the most significant British photographer of architecture and landscape in the mid twentieth century. For twenty years, his images graced many notable books and helped redefine notions of Britishness for the post-war generation. His achingly beautiful interpretations of characteristic buildings from cathedrals to cottages, and terrains from beach to bog, convey an unparalleled sense of place.
An exclusive collaboration with the British Architectural Library Photographs Collection, RIBA, the 55 images in the exhibition will comprise a comprehensive overview of
his career.
A fully illustrated, 96 page catalogue, with evaluative essays and a chronology, will accompany the exhibition priced at £10 + p&p.
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| ROY HAMMOND - NEAR AND FAR: AN EASIER WAY TO TRAVEL 8 MAY - 9 MAY 2010
A new collection of Roy Hammond’s unique and atmospheric watercolours will transport you to some of the most charming and romantic corners of London, and a world beyond the ash cloud.
Roy Hammond has long been a favourite artist of the gallery and each new exhibition continues to be a popular gallery event.
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| NORMAN PARKINSON 19 MAY - 12 JUNE 2010
Norman Parkinson’s photographs helped define the look of British fashion and culture for over forty years. His wit, style and innovative methods ensured him a place at the forefront of international photography – as influential and as imitated as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, and the other great figures of his era. Continuing our series of exhibitions of British photographers, it is fitting that we now celebrate the career of the man who inspired a generation.
The show contains a variety of print types, from single, original vintage prints to wonderful modern editions of 21 that are controlled strictly and exclusively by the Norman Parkinson Archive. Click on the titles below to see the full cataloguing for each print.
Also available is a 129 page, fully illustrated colour catalogue with evaluative essays, a chronology and a blibliography, available from the gallery for £10 + p&p.
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| THE SUMMER SHOW 2010 - The best of 200 years of British Art 15 June and then throughout the summer
Over 200 works of art, with major groups of works by Hercules Brabazon Brabazon NEAC, Albert Goodwin RWS, H H La Thange RA ROI NEAC, Norman Neason RWS RE, S R Badmin RWS RE, Peter Coker RA and Keith Grant.
A display of paintings by the Fraser Family of the Fens, to launch their definitive biography, photographs by Edwin Smith, and sculpture by Sydney Harpley RA FRBS.
A fully illustrated 89 catalogue, with biographies and essays is available for £10 + p&p.
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| KEITH GRANT - ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH 10 MARCH - 3 APRIL 2010
We are delighted to announce Keith Grant’s first solo show with the Chris Beetles Gallery.
One of the greatest living landscape painters, he travels extensively and confronts the elements in order to produce extraordinary, resonant images of nature from the Northern Lights to the waterfalls of South America.
With over 50 works in a variety of size and media, the show is accompanied by a fully illustrated biographical catalogue, available from the gallery at £10 (post free).
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| HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY RONALD SEARLE! 3 MARCH - 3 APRIL 2010
We are thrilled to announce a large retrospective exhibition, to celebrate Ronald Searle’s 90th birthday.
With over 200 cartoons, illustrations and drawings for sale, all aspects of his astonishing career are represented, including work from Punch and the News Chronicle, reportage, and advertisements for Lemon Hart Rum.
In addition, the exhibition will be supplemented by major loans from private collections. These will include examples of his inimitable creations, Nigel Molesworth and the Girls of St Trinian’s, as well as work for Life magazine during the Nixon/Kennedy presidential campaign in 1960.
The official biography of Ronald Searle, written by Russell Davies, profusely illustrated, and with a comprehensive bibliography, is available from the gallery for £20 + p&p (£4 UK, £7 Europe & £14 world).
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| TERRY O'NEILL: NEW & UNSEEN 17 FEBRUARY - 6 MARCH 2010
Terry O’Neill, well known for his images of Frank Sinatra, Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn, is one of Britain’s most popular photographers, and has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Now, for the first time, the Chris Beetles Gallery in London will exhibit a collection of images that have never been seen before, catalogued during an extensive overhaul of his archive during the past year. In addition, the show will include several vintage prints that have never been offered before.
The exhibition will delight fans of celebrity portraiture, as the walls of the gallery will be covered with unseen images of some of the most collectable stars of the 20th Century. One of the most notable aspects in these new images is the extraordinary access that Terry O’Neill was granted. Whether it is Michael Caine posing with his ‘Get Carter’ shotgun, Muhammad Ali psyching himself up before a fight, or the Rolling Stones larking about in make-up, O’Neill had charmed his way into scenarios that today’s celebrity photographers could only dream of. One particular shot is bound to provoke a good deal of interest – Audrey Hepburn frolicking by a pool with Albert Finney during the filming of ‘Two For The Road’, 1967. The two were said to have had an affair on set, and these photographs certainly do nothing to dispel this rumour.
Now 71 years old, O’Neill still mixes with many of the stars that he photographed in their prime. Perhaps this explains how he achieved such access – he was often as good a friend as he was a photographer.
The exhibition will confirm Terry O’Neill as one of the great recorders of 20th century celebrity, and give collectors the opportunity to buy previously unavailable prints by the UK’s most sought after photographer.
A fully illustrated 51 page catalogue is available from the gallery at £10 + p&p (£2 UK, £2.50 Europe, £5 Rest of the world).
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| ONLY YOUNG TWICE - THE LIVELY ART OF QUENTIN BLAKE 13 DECEMBER 2009 - 9 JANUARY 2010
A very special exhibition to celebrate the art of this most popular of illustrators. The show will feature 90 new drawings and watercolours, displaying a wide range of his recent work from book illustrations to murals.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 28 page, fully illustrated catalogue, available from the gallery at £5 (plus £1 p&p UK)
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| BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY 2009 8 DECEMBER 2009 - 9 JANUARY 2010
This exhibition aims to show exciting new work to the gallery, by thirteen master photographers - many of whom have we have exhibited over the last fours years, and are already in our client's collections.
Documentary, fashion, landscape and portraiture feature heavily in the selection, which aims to blur the boundaries between these distinct genres, thereby highlighting the breadth and ingenuity of the best of British Photography.
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| THE ILLUSTRATORS 2009 - THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION 1870-2009 14 November 2009 - 7 January 2010
Our annual exhibition, the biggest event worldwide for cartoon and illustration collectors, is accompanied by a 200 page catalogue. With over 430 images, it gives a true flavour of the show, which features over 800 pictures covering the last two centuries of illustration. The catalogue is available from the gallery at £15.
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| PETER BROOKES - THE BEST OF TIMES 12 OCTOBER - 31 OCTOBER 2009
Over 100 of Peter Brookes's latest bitingly incisive and irreverent cartoons lampooning the world's political machinations, the The Times and his new book The Best of Times, signed copies of which are available from the gallery at £15.99 (+ £3 p&p UK)
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| ROWLANDSON AND HIS TIME 16 SEPTEMBER - 3 OCTOBER 2009
The Chris Beetles Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition of work by Thomas Rowlandson (1756/57-1827), one of the finest draughtsmen of the eighteenth century.
Rowlandson raised comic art to a new level by representing the panorama of contemporary life with almost unparalleled fluency – adopting lyricism or incisiveness as best befitted the subject. And, capturing an abundance of picturesque detail, his work provided a parallel to the novels of Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne.
However, Rowlandson could turn his hand to almost any genre, making portraits of friends, recording British and Continental landscapes during extensive travels, and finding inspiration in the work of Old Masters.
With over 50 examples of the finest quality and condition, the exhibition will represent the full range of Rowlandson’s achievement, from caricatures and episodes of bawdy to scenes of elegant society and classical pastorals.
Furthermore, the exhibition will place Rowlandson in the context of his contemporaries, by including work by a number of caricaturists, draughtsmen and watercolourists: Samuel Howitt, Edward Henry Corbould, John White Abbott, John Nixon, Isaac Cruikshank, John Masey Wright and Henry Thomas Alken, among others.
Leading the field as a dealer of British works on paper, Chris Beetles Gallery confirmed its expertise in Early English watercolours in 2008, with the major exhibition, ‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive: British Watercolours & Drawings 1750-1850’.
Please feel free to contact us for any further promotional information.
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| PAUL KENNY - SEA WORKS 2001-2009 10 - 29 AUGUST 2009
‘The work, building on themes developed over thirty-five years, tries to find the awe-inspiring in that which is easily passed by. It contains issues of fragility, beauty and transience in the landscape: marks and scars left by man and the potential threat to the few remaining areas of wilderness. Looking at the micro and thinking about the macro, I aim for each print to be a beautiful, irresistible, thought provoking object.’
– Paul Kenny
Paul Kenny is one of the most exciting and innovative photographers working in Britain today. We are thrilled to announce a new exhibition of work that charts his gradual move towards abstraction over the last 8 years.
As part of this development, the camera itself has become less important in Kenny’s photography, and he has focused his attention on creating his images through darkroom processes alone. Although his work is unlike any photography that has come before it, it is deeply rooted in photographic tradition and techniques. Using the same camera-less approach of Adam Fuss, Susan Derges, and Gary Fabian-Miller, he builds up his photographic slides by hand, and then creates visual magic in the dark.
Equally crucial is the environment in which the images are created. Kenny has lived and breathed the coastline of the north-east of England for 27 years, and his Sea Works are a love-letter to its sands, strand lines, and shells. He also regularly works in the western isles of Scotland, and the west coast of Ireland. In using beach-combed flotsam and dried sea-water Kenny irrevocably links his work to the coastal environment – each photograph is inspired by it, created from it, and aims to highlight its fragility and sometime abuse. In this way Kenny’s pictures are as much about his passion for conserving and enjoying these delicate eco-systems as they are about artistic endeavour.
This show will focus in particular on Kenny’s recent experimentation with dried salt water, the crystals of which form structural patterns and shapes around pebbles, seaweed, and other items found on the beach. The resulting images are staggeringly beautiful, poignant and blur the boundaries between photography, science and conservation.
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 'FROM DOWNPATRICK HEAD TO BALLY NA CASHLAN' AND 'HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS', THE COLOUR IMAGES ARE AVAILABLE IN 2 EDITIONS -
- 20 X 24 INCH PAPER - EDITION OF 10 - £1200
- 30 X 40 INCH PAPER - EDITION OF 3 - £2500
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| A CELEBRATION OF CRICKET - FROM ASHES TO ZOOTER 15 JULY - 1 AUGUST 2009
We are thrilled to announce our first Cricket exhibition, with illustrations, cartoons and watercolours from 200 years of our nation’s famous game.
From leather on willow and glory at Lords, to galumphing googlies and third-man humour, our show will be a body-line rib-tickler like no other.
It will also show off the rich visual history that is associated with the game. Cricket has been depicted by artists since its earliest days, and after 5 years of focused collecting, we will field an all-round display of genres and artists.
Over half the show will be devoted to cartoons. From Sir Len Hutton to Shane Warne, few cricketers of note have escaped the hawk-eye of our finest newspaper cartoonists. Names include Barry Appleby, Glen Baxter, Mark Boxer, Emmwood, Tony Husband, Jak, John Jensen, Kathryn Lamb, Larry, Nick Newman, Willie Rushton, Ralph Steadman, Roy Ullyett, Vicky and many more.
With over 200 pictures, and something for all tastes, our exhibition will be one bouncer that you won’t want to duck.
10% of all picture sales will go to the charity Leukaemia Research
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| BILL BRANDT 24 June - 18 July 2009
Bill Brandt is regarded as one of the great paragons of British photography. His singular eye gave him a unique take on the quintessence of Britishness, and he formed an archive of images that are as socially powerful as they are visually poetic.
Brandt was in fact German, born in Hamburg in 1904, but spent much of his life in denial of his origins. He arrived in London in 1931, and so taken was he by England and its way of life that he began to insist he had been born in South London – this started a lifelong metamorphosis into a stereotypical English gentleman. However, before embarking on this personal journey, Brandt had been fortunate enough to study under Man Ray in Paris, where he absorbed the aesthetics of Surrealism – a training that would forever colour his photographs with the marvellous tint of European modernism.
Brandt was a regular presence in the great photographic magazines of the time, particularly Picture Post and Lilliput, but also published numerous books including The English at Home (1936), A Night in London (1938), Literary Britain (1951) and Perspective of Nudes (1961). Often reduced to stark blacks and whites, his images can be as formally powerful as the subject matter they depict – and often retain the humour, even satire, of an outsider looking in.
Brandt is known for documenting Britain and its people – the rich and poor, the celebrated artist and the unknown miner – but also for his idiosyncratic nude studies that obsessed him from 1951. Our show will focus on these two great facets of Brandt’s work, and aims to firmly reinforce his position in the canon of great twentieth-century photographers.
Our exhibition will be the largest selling show of Brandt’s work to have been staged in the UK.
A fully illustrated 80 page catalogue, with an evaluative essay, chronology and bibliography is available from the gallery at £10 + p&p (£2 UK, £2.50 Europe, £5 Rest of the world).
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| 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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| 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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| '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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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