Guy Peppiatt Fine Art is based in Masons Yard, St James’s, where it holds an annual summer exhibition of British drawings and watercolours which is part of London Art Week. This watercolour by John ‘Warwick’ Smith (1749-1831), Figures near the Porta Del Popolo, Rome, c.1781, is offered signed for £5000.
London Art Week: Need to know
When
June 30-July 7
Where
Around London and online. Participating galleries can be found mainly in St James’s, Mayfair, Pimlico, Kensington and Chelsea.
What’s new for 2023?
Participant numbers are back up to pre-lockdown numbers with 51 signed up.
This year there’s a greater than ever presence from dealers specialising in decorative art.
Newcomers include carpet and 20th century design specialist Afridi Gallery, H Blairman & Sons with 18th-20th century furniture and works of art, Finch & Co with ethnography, European works of art and natural history, E&H Manners offering ceramics and Paul Mitchell featuring his antique & bespoke assortment of frames.
Also joining this year are Daniel Crouch and Peter Harrington with rare books and maps, along with several fine art specialists: Clase Fine Art, Dominic Fine Art, Haynes Fine Art, David Messum Fne Art, Nonesuch Gallery, and, with sculptures, Hignell Gallery.
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Maximalism exhibition
The Waves: Squid by Frank Stella, a silkscreen, lithograph and linoleum block with hand-colouring, marbling and collage, which is offered for £30,000 at Shapero’s exhibition.
Shapero Rare Books and Shapero Modern have organised twin exhibitions on Maximalism. The two galleries, found on New Bond Street and Maddox Street, feature works by Sol Le Witt, Robert Rauschenberg and others. Pictured here is The Waves: Squid by Frank Stella, a silkscreen, lithograph and linoleum block with hand-colouring, marbling and collage, which is offered for £30,000. Maximalism: More is More runs until August 26.
Bust and side table
Side table designed by Sir John Soane offered for £145,000 by H Blairman and Sons, pictured with a plaster bust by George Bullock of William Roscoe, c.1804, which is available for £14,500.
Offered for £145,000 is this side table designed by Sir John Soane for the gothic library at Stowe House, c.1805. It is pictured with a plaster bust by George Bullock of William Roscoe, c.1804, which is available for £14,500.
The table is one of the highlights from the Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, which is the basis of the show at H Blairman and Sons in Queen Anne’s Gate.
Clive was a furniture specialist at the Victoria & Albert Museum and helped to renovate the Palace of Westminster. The 35-item catalogue of the Wainwright collection include works by Augustus Pugin, Joseph Nash and the Martin Brothers.
Winifred Nicholson's portrait
Winifred Nicholson's portrait of her husband Ben, offered for £120,000 at Patrick Bourne & Co.
One theme of this year’s London Art Week is the work of women artists. Patrick Bourne & Co contibutes Winifred Nicholson: Colour is the vital power, which takes place at the firm’s St James’s gallery. Offered for £120,000, this portrait of her husband Ben Nicholson with their dog is one of a small group of works by the artist from a small private collection. Though some of her best-known works are included, they come fresh to the market.
Spanish Old Master
Calvary with the mass of St Gregory by Juan de Borgoña, available for €100,000 from Galeria Bernat of Madrid.
The digital branch of London Art Week allows international exhibitors to take part, such as Galeria Bernat of Madrid. It specialises in Medieval and Renaissance art.
Its Summer Selection includes this 16th century oil on panel, Calvary with the mass of St Gregory by Juan de Borgoña, an artist active in Toledo from 1495-1535. It measures 2ft 7in x 23in (80 x 58.5cm) and is available for €100,000.
Venice scene
I fuochi a Venezia, 1929, which is available for €20,000 from Reve Art of Bologna.
Another overseas exhibitor is Reve Art of Bologna. Founded in 2018, the firm focuses on the ‘Pittura del Rinnovamento’ of 1895 to the late 1950s. Among the highlights is this oil on canvas I fuochi a Venezia, 1929, which is available for €20,000.
Laura Knight portrait
Laura Knight’s Portrait of a Lady, available for a price in the region of £28,000 from Karen Taylor Fine Art.
Karen Taylor Fine Art’s exhibition Four Centuries of British and French Works on Paper includes Laura Knight’s Portrait of a Lady. Available for a price in the region of £28,000, this work produced in watercolour and black chalk is signed and dated 1923.
It may depict the artist Lilian Ryan, Lady ‘Jane’ Kelly, wife of society portraitist Sir Gerald Festus Kelly.
Taylor is among the dealers who had planned to stand at The Open Art Fair in the spring and Masterpiece London in the summer. When both were cancelled she says she “reshuffled” her summer offerings into two catalogues. The other, Painting in Nature, comprises a dozen oil on paper pictures.
Labruzzi landscape
Tivoli by Carlo Labruzzi (1749-1817), offered for £120,000 at Charles Beddington.
Offered for £120,000, this oil on canvas Tivoli by Roman artist Carlo Labruzzi (1749-1817) is a highlight from Mayfair dealership Charles Beddington.
English delft mug
English delft Charles II dated mug from 1660, available for £55,000 from E&H Manners.
Among this year’s newcomers is E&H Manners of Kensington Church Street. Its Survey of European Ceramics, 1500-1800, includes this English delft Charles II dated mug from 1660, measuring 3¾ in (9.5cm) high, which is available for £55,000.
