Henri Matisse - Exhibition Invitation

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an invitation

aug 2010

Henri Matisse

Humphrey Spender

1. Mykonos mixed media, 2002, signed, 13.2 x 20.2 cm

£850 Humphrey Spender (1910-2005), brother of the poet Stephen Spender, studied art history in Germany, then qualified as an architect in London. Between 1934 -39 he worked as a photographer and is best known for his images of the depression and poverty during the 1930s. It was only after the war that Spender concentrated seriously on painting and in 1953 he started teaching at the Royal College of Art. He is recorded as saying he hoped that his paintings might make people see differently.

ARTISTS INDEX Davison, Francis Epstein, Jacob Erni, Hans

20,21 9-11 30-32

3. 19 x 21 cm, £1750 12,13 4. 20 x 15.5 cm, £1750

Gross, Anthony Hogarth, Paul

18,19

John, Augustus John, Gwen Lowry, L S Mason, Paul Moore, Henry

6,7

Orpen, William

2,3

Picasso, Pablo

26,27

Piper, John

22-25

28,29 back cover 14,15

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Spender, Humphrey Underwood, Leon

5. 35 x 24 cm, £2400 4,5 6. 25.5 x 37 cm, £1950

Rodin, Auguste Royds, Mabel

16,17

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Leon Underwood

Goldmark Gallery Uppingham Rutland We are delighted to invite you to the private view of

Henri Matisse Florilège des Amours de Ronsard original lithographs 1948

Saturday 4th September 2010 10.00 am to 5.30 pm 2. Fishwife watercolour, c1930s, 39 x 28.5 cm on film reverse by Leon Underwood’s widow http://www.goldmarkart.com/exhibitions.html click here to watch ourauthenticated invitation

£650

Leon £150 Underwood (1890-1975) sculptor, painter and printmaker. price guide from - £2400

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Born in London, studied at the Royal Academy. Taught Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Eileen Agar, Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes. Exhibited widely and work held in major public collections including V&A Museum, light lunch Ashmolean Museum, and the Tate.

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Gwen John Henri Matisse Florilège Amourswasde Gwen des John (1876-1939) bornRonsard at Haverfordwest in South Wales, the daughter of a solicitor and brother to the artist Following hergenius brother but by also a man Henri Matisse wasAugustus not onlyJohn. an innovative a year John was a studentwith at the School of Finegenerosity of of great warmth and humour anSlade overwhelming spirit. Art in London from 1895-98 where her most important tutors were Fred Brown and Philip Wilson Steer. Fellow

included Orpen, Ambrose McEvoy, In 1941,students now in his earlyWilliam seventies and much of the time confined Ida Nettleship (she later married Augustus John), to his bed, he began one of his most complicated and successful Ursula Tyrwhitt and Gwen Salmond (later Mrs. printmaking projects, Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, Matthew Smith). illustrating the love poems of the 16th century poet Pierre de Ronsard.In The was to seven years to complete and in 1898work John studied at take Whistler’s school in Paris, the Académie Carmen, before returning London its making Matisseʼs sexuality was toto find itsthe most intense 1 following year. In 1900 she exhibited with the New expression.

English Art Club for the first time but four years later National Portrait Gallery

The imagery created

by Ronsardʼs poemslived lentforitself well to she returned to France where she virtually remainder themes of her life.of It fruits, was in 1904 that she met Matisseʼsthefavoured flowers, portraits and the the sculptor Auguste Rodinmotifs and subsequently became female form.

Most of these were those which Matisse his model and his mistress. After the end of their knew byboth heart and for which he had an abiding fondness. relationship she continued to write to Rodin, almost

andwith was deeply disturbed by his death in Such wasobsessively, his delight the subject matter that over the years 1917. he expanded the commission from 30 lithographs to the 126 which made up the finished project.

Many of her paintings remained in her studio at the

of her and it is printed only in recent decades that This nowtime very raredeath suite was

by Mourlot Frères in Paris her work has been widely recognised as if in fulfilment on pure rag tinted wove Papeteries dʼArches paper in an edition of her brother’s assessment of her, the greatest of 320 sets only, of which 300 were for sale. It was published woman artist of her age, or, as I think, of any other. in 1948.In recent years there have been important exhibitions of her work, for example at the Barbican Art Gallery

Each print is accompanied by a copy of the justification page signed (1985) and the Tate Gallery (2005, jointly with

by Matisse.

Augustus).

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1. 7.5 x 8.5 cm, £350 2. 8.5 x 7 cm, £250

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(Matisse ‒ Pierre Schneider, Thames and Hudson, 1984)

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Gwen John

3. Girl in a Cloche Hat pencil, c1920s, 16 x 15.5 cm

ÂŁ3750

7. 23.5 x 22.5 cm, ÂŁ2250

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Auguste Rodin

8. 18 x 25 cm, £2250 front cover: 9. 23.5 x 14 cm, £2250

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is widely regarded as the pre-eminent sculptor of the 19th century who in turn influenced many of the great sculptors of the 20th century. However it is only in recent decades that his watercolours, drawings and graphic works have begun to be seriously reassessed and also seen by a wider public at major retrospective exhibitions, for example National Gallery of Art, Washington (1972 & 1982), Hayward Gallery (1986), Royal Academy (2006) and St. Tropez & Seoul (2010).

The drawings made by Rodin during the last decades of his life were often of explicitly erotic nude figures and for that reason were not initially exhibited in public.

A rare opportunity to acquire a Rodin drawing. From the estate of the notable In 1948 Henri Matisse made a suite of original lithographs toGross illustrate Ronsardʼs Swiss collector, Herbert who died in the early 1970s. love poems Florilège des Amours. Nearing the end of his career, he was making

line drawings of inspired simplicity.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or disturbing subject matter . . . Like a comforting influence, a mental balm.

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