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The Artist’s Palate
Queen Nefetari makes an offering to Osiris, Tomb QV66, Valley of the Queens, Egypt, 1255 BC Food and art have been linked since very early times – perhaps for different reasons, as with the striking fresoes in the Tomb of … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions, still life
Tagged Caravaggio, Ferran Adriå, Stephen Rose, Still life, still life paintings, symbolism, Van Eyck
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The People’s Art
The deaccessioning of collections is very much in the air at the moment, what with the city of Detroit attempting to declare itself bankrupt, and thereby opening the possibility that the contents of the Detroit Institute of Arts could be … Continue reading
Daffodils that come before the swallow dares…
The appearance of a flowerpiece by Ludger Tom Ring in Christie’s Old Master & British Paintings Sale on 2 July – ‘one of the earliest independent still life [paintings] in the history of Western art’ – prompts the question, why … Continue reading
Gumming up the works
Alfred Wallis, Five ships: Mount’s Bay, 1928 The sale of Dan Cohen’s chewing-gum piece recently by Christie’s (for £481,875 – to his own dealer) gives one pause. Bendor Grosvenor has blogged about the vacuity of the catalogue entry accorded a work … Continue reading
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The charm and power of the flowerpiece…
Jan van Huysum, Still life with roses, tulips and peonies, c, 1718, oil on copper, National Galleries of Scotland The acquisition by the National Galleries of Scotland of a spectacular flowerpiece by the artist Jan van Huysum is a reminder … Continue reading
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William Morris and art for all…
William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow, London What tremendous and heartening news that the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow has been declared the Art Fund Museum of the Year, winning £100,000 to keep it going on its starry voyage … Continue reading
Saving the past…
Reading The Art Newpaper’s edition for June 2013, it becomes depressingly clear that trying to preserve enough of our historic past to bequeath in fairly good nick to our children is an uphill struggle, consistently undermined (as it were) not … Continue reading
The Hungry Eye: an exhibition of new still life paintings by Stephen Rose
Open from 22 April – 3 May 2013 and presented by Mark Mitchell Paintings & Drawings at 17 Avery Row, Brook Street, London W1K 4BF Stephen Rose’s work is a wonderfully contemporary take on the classical tradition of still life painting. He … Continue reading
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Tagged British paintings, British pictures, Stephen Rose, Still life, still life paintings
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Superb artist – George Weissbort
George Weissbort (1928-) encapsulates precisely what Mark Mitchell Paintings & Drawings is all about and is the very reason why I set up this company – to bring back into the spotlight talented and highly trained artists who have often been … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Art fairs, Landscape, New acquisitions, still life
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New Acquisition by Edward Wesson (1910-1983)
This is another gem from the late British artist, Edward Wesson. His subject matter normally consists of painting the East Anglian empty skies, (of which we have five other pictures of). Instead here he’s focused on the buildings and monuments(including … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Landscape, New acquisitions
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