Past Schedule

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Francesco Fontebasso, Study of Three Athletes

Jan 21, 2012 – Jan 28, 2012

Master Drawings New York

Master Drawings New York returns to New York City’s Upper East Side from 21-28 January 2012. The exhibitors from the United States, the United Kingdom and France will show an outstanding selection of work from the 15th to the 20th centuries. The event is based on the highly successful Master Drawings London which takes place during the first week in July each year. The week long event in New York will provide collectors with an opportunity to buy works from over 20 leading specialists, all within walking distance of one another.
Master Drawings New York

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Ivory and Tortoiseshell-veneered Cabinet

Nov 3, 2011 – Dec 9, 2011

Ivory - Material of Desire

Ivory - Material of Desire at Francesca Galloway centres around a small group of outstanding ivory objects and veneered furniture from the late 16th to the 19th century, both for domestic palace and for the luxury export market. Amongst the objects on show will be a casket for storing jewellery and precious objects, veneered in tortoise-shell and ivory with silver mounts and handles, and an 18th century Mughal openwork ivory howdah.Francesca Galloway

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Oct 31, 2011

Caravaggio – A New View of the Revolutionary who used science to change art forever

Caravaggio’s Eye by Clovis Whitfield, published by Paul Holberton, cloth, 280 pages, 175 colour illustrations, price £40 ($65). ISBN: 978 1 907372 10 0. www.paul-holberton.net Distributed in the United States by Casemate Athena.
Whitfield Fine Art

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Oct 28, 2011 – Jan 31, 2012

Yves Dana

Following the sell out inaugural show in 2009, Robert Bowman Modern will be hosting its second solo show of the work of Yves Dana. Dana’s work is exhibited internationally, including all the major contemporary art fairs such as ART Basel, TEFAF Maastricht, Art India, Masterpiece London and Hong Kong. Works on show include Stele, Memoires des Pierres and Autres Passages. Many publications have been written on Yves Dana and the Editions Cercle d'Art Paris have also made a film about the artist which was premiered at Dana’s studio on the June 25th 2011.
Robert Bowman Modern

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Canaletto, The Torre di Madi Marghera, Oil on canvas

Oct 1, 2011 – Oct 9, 2011

XXVII Bienniale - International Biennial Antiques Fair of Florence

Eighty-eight fine art and antique dealers, 74 Italian and 14 foreign, will take part in the forthcoming 27th Florence International Antiques Far, which takes place between 1-9 October 2011 in the Palazzo Corsini. Pier Luigi Pizzi will once again be responsible for the design and lay out of the Fair. Mario and Giuseppe Bellini launched the first Fair in 1959, which has gone on to become the most important Italian art exhibition in the world.The Florence International Antiques Fair

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Sep 24, 2011 – Jan 22, 2012

Lowell Libson Ltd sponsors Gainsborough exhibition at Holburne Museum

Lowell Libson is sponsoring Gainsborough’s Landscapes: Themes and Variations which opens on 24 September 2011 at the Holburne Museum in Bath. It is the first exhibition in fifty years devoted solely to Gainsborough’s landscape paintings and drawings, bringing together remarkable works from public and private collections, many of them little known and some not previously exhibited. Lowell Libson has a long-standing interest in the works of Thomas Gainsborough and his contemporaries. Lowell Libson Ltd

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Silk with confronting rampant lions and palm leaves Nasrid Spain, late C15th

Sep 23, 2011 – Oct 26, 2011

Islamic Courtly Textiles from the 14th - 19th Century

Francesca Galloway is delighted to present an exhibition of Islamic Courtly Textiles dating from the 14th to the 19th century. The exhibition encompasses rare and sumptuous examples of silk weaving, embroidery and painted cottons from as early as Mamluk Egypt and Islamic Spain to late Ottoman Turkey and 19th century Islamic Indonesia.
Francesca Galloway

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From: ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ by Ian Fleming (1971.)

Sep 13, 2011 – Dec 22, 2011

John Burningham: An Illustrated Journey

A celebration of the rich and varied career of John Burningham, one of Britain’s most distinguished and best-loved illustrators, at The Fleming Collection in London. The retrospective of work by Burningham, the author and illustrator of many children’s books who also did the illustrations for Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, will include many of his finest works along with previously unseen archive material.
The Fleming Collection

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ASCENT (2010) BRONZE, 2m x 1m 65cm x 3m 35cm (high)

Sep 2, 2011 – Oct 15, 2011

Helaine Blumenfeld in Pietrasanta

A celebration of Helaine Blumenfeld's spiritual marble and bronze sculptures will be held in Italy's Pietrasanta, the world's centre of international sculptors. Invited by the mayor, Dr. Domenico Lombardi and the Commune of Pietrasanta in recognition of her exceptional talents as a sculptor, Helaine Blumenfeld has been finishing five monumental marble and bronze sculptures – all over ten feet in height – to be placed in the Piazza del Duomo. Blumenfeld is also creating a haunting installation, "Visionary Landscape" to be placed on the altar of the Chiesa di S.Agostino. In effect, this will be the staging of four abstract “Spirits” in a landscaped environment. Helaine Blumenfeld

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Jun 10, 2011 – Sep 3, 2011

The Scottish Summer Exhibition

Works by some of Scotland’s leading contemporary artists will go on sale at The Fleming Collection in London. A group of invited artists has submitted works, many of which have been specially created for the show. A percentage of all sales will go towards supporting The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, the charity that runs The Fleming Collection.
The Fleming Collection

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