Masterpiece 2019
The Redfern Gallery will be showing again at Masterpiece, where a number of works are being offered for sale for the first time.
Among the highlights is a black and white portrait by David Hockney of the American abstract expressionist Paul Jenkins, painted c. 1963. Jenkins was a significant early collector of Hockney's work, and in 1970 lent six major paintings to the Whitechapel Gallery for its Hockney retrospective. This portrait has remained in Jenkins' collection since it was made. In that same approximate timeframe, a 1968 acrylic on canvas by Paul Jenkins, Phenomena Dervish Teller, painted about 5 years after the Hockney portrait, is on view.
Also on show is Paysage Anthropophage, recently described as SW Hayter's "surrealist masterpiece" by Simon Martin of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. Commenting on the work in 1981, the poet and critic Eduard Jaguer wrote: "the superb Paysage Anthropophage of 1937 remains one of the most forceful canvases of the pre-war period of surrealism". The painting was first shown at the Mayor Gallery, London, in 1938, and has since been included in various survey shows of Surrealism, especially in France and Spain, from 1981 onwards.
Peter Sedgley’s Colour Pulse III,one of a number of important ‘target’ paintings that the artist began in the late 1960s, will be on show in its own dedicated stand. Ithas been included in several museum exhibitions, including Dynamo – A Century of Light and Movement in Art 1913-2013, Grand Palais, Paris, 2013, as well as Electronic Superhighway, at the Whitechapel Gallery, 2016. A related work is currently on show at Tate Modern, having been purchased by the Tate in 1970.
Other highlights include David Inshaw's striking portrait of the art critic Beatrice Phillpotts, which was first shown at the Brotherhood of Ruralists' Definitive Nude exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1983. Patrick Procktor RA will be represented by an early, gestural oil painting that was first shown in the acclaimed New Generation: 1964, curated by Bryan Robertson and which featured Patrick Caulfield, Hockney, John Hoyland and Riley, among others.
An early portrait from 1949 by Eileen Agar RA will be shown, having last been seen in Surrealism in England: 1936 and after – an exhibition to celebrate the 50thanniversary of the First International Surrealist Exhibition in London 1936, which toured the UK including the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, in 1986. In addition, important paintings Paul Feiler, which were selected by the artist for his Tate St Ives retrospective in 1995, will be shown.
Other artists whose paintings will be on view include Adrian Heath, Patrick Heron CBE, John Hoyland RA, Paul Jenkins, Margaret Mellis, Keith Vaughan, Bryan Wynter, as well as a selection of sculpture in various media by John Carter RA, Lynn Chadwick CBE, Norman Dilworth, Colin Figue, George Kennethson, and Henry Moore OM.
Masterpiece 2019 runs from 27 June to 3 July.
Works
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Peter Sedgley
Light Pulse III, 1968
Acrylic on linen with kinetic lights
183 x 183 cm
Exhibited: Dynamo - A Century of Light and Movement in Art 1913-2013, Grand Palais, Paris, 2013
Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2016
Action-Reaction: 100 Years of Kinetic Art, Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2018-19
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Eileen Agar RA
Portrait, c.1949
Oil on board
91 x 68 cm
Exhibited: Surrealism in England: 1936 and after – an exhibition to celebrate the 50thanniversary of the First International Surrealist Exhibition in London in June 1936, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, and toured to National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, and Long City Art Gallery, Newcastle, 1986 (cat. no. 93, illus.)
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SW Hayter
Paysage Anthropophage 1937
Oil on canvas
100 x 200 cm
Exhibited: Spain 1937: Recent Paintings by Hayter, Mayor Gallery, London, 1938
SW Hayter, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1973
Permanence du regard surréaliste, ELAC, Lyon, 1981
Changer la vue - André Breton et la révolution surréaliste du regard, Musée de Cahors, 1986
Hommage à Stanley William Hayter, Artcurial - Centre d'art plastique contemporain, Paris, 1988
El surrealismo y la guerra civil española, Museo de Tervel, 1998
Conscience and Conflict British Artists and the Spanish Civil War, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 2015
Hayter ou La Métamorphose des Lignes, Centre d'Art La Malmaison, Cannes, 2017
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David Inshaw
Self-Portrait with Nude, 1983-2004
Oil on canvas
175 x 122 cm
Exhibited: The Definitive Nude, Tate Gallery, London, 1983
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Bryan Wynter
Gust, 1959
Oil on canvas
142 x 112 cm
Exhibited: 6th International Art Exhibition, British Council touring exhibition of Japan, 1961
British Art Today, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, 1963
Young British Painters, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1964
Bryan Wynter: Retrospective, Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition of the UK, 1976
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John Hoyland RA
Untitled, 1974
Acrylic on canvas
55 x 45 cm
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Patrick Heron CBE
Violet Disc in Lime Yellow, 1982
Oil on canvas
152 x 213 cm
Exhibited: Patrick Heron, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1985
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Eileen Agar RA
Profiles, 1940
Oil and enamel on canvas
27 x 34 cm
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Keith Vaughan
Study for Lazarus I, 1957
Oil on board
42 x 33 cm
Exhibited: Keith Vaughan: Recent Paintings, Leicester Galleries, London, 1958
Seven British Painters of Today, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 1959
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David Hockney OM, CH, RA
Untitled, c.1963
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 40.7 cm
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Henry Moore OM, CH
Family Group, 1945
Bronze
14.7 cm (height)
From the edition of 6+1
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Paul Jenkins
Phenomena Dervish Teller, 1968
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 88.9 cm
Exhibited: Paul Jenkins, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1969
Paul Jenkins: Phenomena Paintings 1963-77, Belk Art Gallery, Cullowhee, 1981
Paul Jenkins: Oeuvres 1956-1986, Musée Picasso, Antibes, 1987