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    Helaine Blumenfeld with Klas Nilsson and Tempesta, Pietrasanta 2011
    May 2, 2012

    Landmark residential property development The Lancasters unveils exceptional sculpture

    The monumental sculpture Tempesta by Helaine Blumenfeld OBE will be unveiled on the 2nd May as the crowning glory for The Lancasters development overlooking Hyde Park. Internationally renowned sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld OBE was commissioned to make the landmark sculpture, which will be set in front of the meticulously restored Grade II listed façade by developers Northacre and Minerva as the final element in the project, which has been ongoing since 2007. Helaine Blumenfeld OBE is an internationally acclaimed sculptor. She has been represented by The Robert Bowman Modern Gallery in London since 2006.Robert Bowman Modern

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    Mar 21, 2012 – Mar 27, 2012

    BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair

    The BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in from 21-27 March 2012. Throughout its 20 year history, quality and connoisseurship have been at the heart of the Fair which is supported by the British Antique Dealers’ Association, representing the UK’s leading specialists. The Fair has a superb location in one of London’s most exclusive areas. Situated on the King’s Road just a short walk from Sloane Square, within easy reach of some of the capital’s finest hotels, shops and restaurants.
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    Mar 16, 2012

    Celebrating the Best - 25 Years of TEFAF Maastricht

    A 211 page book with scores of images has been produced to mark the Silver Jubilee of TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s best art and antiques fair. It has been edited by Will Bennett of Cawdell Douglas and he and his colleague Diana Cawdell together with art journalists Paula Weideger and Gareth Harris have written it. The book, published by The European Fine Art Foundation, which runs TEFAF Maastricht, follows the history of the Fair, goes behind the scenes, examines its relationship with the city of Maastricht,talks to collectors and museum curators who have bought works there and looks ahead to the future.TEFAF Maastricht

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    Mar 16, 2012 – Mar 25, 2012

    TEFAF Maastricht

    The European Fine Art Fair will celebrate its Silver Jubilee when the 25th edition opens at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands. More than 250 exhibitors from around the world will bring approximately 30,000 works of art including, paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, furniture, classical antiquities, illuminated manuscripts, jewellery, textiles, porcelain, glass, silver and design. All will be rigorously vetted to maintain TEFAF Maastricht’s reputation for exhibiting only the best works.
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    1670 miniature of Sultan ‘Ali ‘Adil Shah II of Bijapur (r. 1656-72)
    Mar 16, 2012 – Mar 24, 2012

    Francesca Galloway New York Asia Week

    Francesca Galloway will be showing some recent acquisitions at New York Asia Week from 16th-24th March 2012. The gallery will be exhibiting at Leslie Feely Fine Art, East 68th Street. Amongst the objects on show is the delightful 1670 miniature of Sultan ‘Ali ‘Adil Shah II of Bijapur (r. 1656-72) Opaque watercolour and gold on paper laid down on card from the George P Bickford collection. 17th century Deccani paintings are highly desirable particularly portraits. This has the added allure of a distinguished provenance.Open House Weekend 17 – 18 March, Sat – Sun 10 – 6pm, will be at: Leslie Feely Fine Art, 33 East 68th Street, 5th Floor, New York 10065Francesca Galloway

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    Kenneth Armitage (English 1916-2002) Children Playing, 1953 Bronze
    Mar 1, 2012 – Apr 20, 2012

    Robert Bowman Modern Geniuses of Modern British Sculpture

    In February 2012, Robert Bowman Modern will be holding a selling exhibition of the greatest Modern British Sculptors. 2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the seminal 1952 Venice Biennale that first introduced the exciting work of a new group of young British sculptors including Kenneth Armitage, Lynn Chadwick, Bernard Meadows, Edouardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull. These sculptors had emerged in the wake of the older Henry Moore immediately after World War II. The exhibition is an exploration of the period and includes work by Kenneth Armitage, Michael Ayrton, Lynn Chadwick, Jacob Epstein, Elizabeth Frink, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Prices will start at £10,000.Robert Bowman Modern 

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    John Bratby Jean with Teddy Bear Oil on board 39 x 29 inches 1954
    Feb 21, 2012

    Single Owner Bratby Sale at Holloway’s

    2012 marks the 50th anniversary of Julian Hartnoll’s career as a dealer. He is taking the anniversary as a moment to rationalise his business and has decided to sell some of his considerable stock through Holloway’s of Banbury. The sale will consist of 320 framed paintings and drawings and will reflect the areas that Julian has dealt in during his career – namely, paintings and drawings by John Bratby RA and work by fellow kitchen sink artists Edward Middleditch, Jack Smith and Francis Newton Souza.Julian Hartnoll

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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.
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    Autumn Series 5 Balmungo
    Jan 10, 2012 – Apr 5, 2012

    W. Barns-Graham: A Scottish artist in St Ives

    The painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham is usually classified as a St Ives School artist yet her Scottish roots and her continuing close links with her homeland had a huge influence on her work. A major exhibition marking the centenary of her birth held at The Fleming Collection will radically reappraise her career looking at the influence of her artistic training in Edinburgh, the inspirational resource she found in Scotland and its continuing creative importance as she divided her time between Cornwall and Fife. The Fleming Collection is mounting the exhibition, the first to look at the artist from this perspective, in association with The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust.The Fleming Collection

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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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    Music Notes
    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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    Correspondance Nocturne, 2008
    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.
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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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    Jo Milne - Eluding elision II
    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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