Dickinson will be holding a Renaissance sculpture exhibition from June 17 until July 18 at its premises on 58 Jermyn Street, London. The exhibition will include ‘re-discovered masterpieces’ such as Matilda of Canossa (c.1633) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini – priced at $2m – as well as works by Luca della Robbia and Giambologna, with values from $200,000 to $2.5m.
Two summer sculpture trails can be explored in west London this summer.
The Treasure House Fair running from June 27-July 2 will celebrate 20th and 21st-century British female sculptors with a display inside the fair and in the gardens of the Royal Chelsea Hospital. The Sculpture Walk features sculptors such as Barbara Hepworth, Elizabeth Frink and Emily Young.
Curated by Willoughby Gerrish, art dealer and director of Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden in North Yorkshire, the exhibition will also be highlighted by works by contemporary artists Mona Hatoum, Nicola Anthony and Macedonian artist Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva.
Overlapping with Treasure House is Kensington and Chelsea Art Week, from June 20-30.
As part of the latter, Art Trail takes place from June 15 to August 30. Now in its seventh year, the trail features world-class sculpture, installations and murals throughout the borough inspired by this year’s curatorial theme of ‘changing landscapes’.
Located across nine zones, Art Trail will span various west London sites including Duke of York Square, Sloane Street, Royal Avenue on the King’s Road, Earl’s Court, North Kensington, Holland Park, High Street Kensington and Knightsbridge.
There will be 25 sculptures to view from artists including Yoni Alter, Gillie & Marc, Charlotte Colbert, Julian Wild, Matthias Neumann, Grow to Know, Simone Brewster, Annie Trevorah, Amy Jackson, Gus Farnes and Egor Zigura.
On July 3, Sotheby’s stages a sale titled Master Sculpture from Four Millennia. This diverse selection from antiquity to the 19th century includes this rediscovered Roman marble portrait bust of the emperor Caracalla (212-217AD). Born in Gaul as Lucius Septimius Bassianus, he gained his nickname from the Gallic hooded cloak which he made popular. The head, a type known in numerous replicas, was previously thought to be a Grand Tour pastiche but is now known to be 3rd century with later restorations. It was acquired in Naples in 1768 by the artist and antiquary Thomas Jenkins (1722-98) and since the 19th century has been in the collection of the Earls of Yarborough. Kept away from public view at Brocklesby Park for at least a century, it has a guide of £1.5m-2.5m.
