Happy New Year to everyone. We hope you have had the best Christmas possible during these extraordinary times.
Thank you to all those who came to our December exhibition at the Coningsby Gallery. It was wonderful to see people in person for the first time for a year. Covid permitting, we are hoping to be back in Fitzrovia in April. Henry’s home galllery remains closed to visitors, although please do not hesitate to get in contact should you have any queries about pictures. High resolutions photos can be provided, and international and domestic shipping is working as normal. Free delivery is available in the London area.
Despite everything that is going on, Henry continues to update his collection of works for sale. Below are some new additions.
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Claudio Bravo, (Chilean 1936-2011), Fur Coat (Front and Back), 1976.
Lithograph, signed and dated (lower right), and marked 66/75 (lower left), each work 56cm x 49cm (79cm x 60cm framed), £4,000 for the pair.
Bravo was a hyperrealist artist of extraordinary talents. Leaving Chile aged 21, after spells living in Spain and New York, Bravo settled in Tangiers in 1972. Despite exhibiting internationally throughout his highly successful career, he resided in Morocco for the remainder of his life. He had found the colours and light he was searching for, away from (as he put it) the drabness and cement of cities. His work, although retaining its destinctive character, became infused with Morocco culture and the people around him. Most of his models were workers in his houses, their friends and even the telephone repair man. He was known mainly for his paintings and drawings of still lifes, portraits and packages, but he also produced series of prints. This print is after a pencil drawing of the same name, also from 1976.
His work is included in many public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, and the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, to name but a few.
Jean-Marc Prouveur, (French b.1956), The Portugese Man.
Cibachrome print, five works to be displayed as one, overall size, approx 101cm x 160cm, framed, £1,950.
A French artist and filmmaker who, after moving to London in 1976, collaborated with Derek Jarman. He was involved in the making of Jarman’s cult film Jubilee in 1977. This Cibachrome print (a process which reproduces film transparancies onto photographic paper), recreates fragments from a wall mural; five separately framed pictures combine together to make a striking, perhaps revolutionary, image. Prouveur exhibited widely in New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Rome.
Harold Kitner, (American 1921-2004), Male Figure, 1958.
Oil on paper, signed and dated (upper left), 58cm x 45cm (77cm x 61cm framed), £1,250.
Kitner had a successful career as an artist, alongside his tenure at Kent State University, Ohio for 38 years. He exhibited widely in the US. This work is clearly influenced by the artists of the Bay Area movement, such as David Park (American 1911-1960).
Valentin Stepanovich Tereschenko (Russian b.1941), Academic Study, c.1960s.
Charcoal on paper, signed (lower left), 74cm x 49cm (83cm 57cm framed), £1,250.
A Russian artist who has exhibited widely both in Russia and abroad. Drawings of the nude, called academic studies, were central to academic art training in Europe from the 16th century onwards. With the decline of academic art in the Western art tradition, the practice declined in importance. However, in Russia the practice still continues today.
Patrick Hennessy, R.H.A, (Irish 1915-1980), Bound Figure.
Pastel on paper (fixed to board), signed (lower right), 110cm x 77cm, (120cm x 89cm framed), £5,000.
Throughout his career, but especially in the early years, Hennessy made a living from flower paintings, still-lives and portrait commissions. However, alongside this conventional output, he also created a body of work which was far more personal and, for its time, ground-breaking. He addressed issues of masculinity, sexual identity and homosexuality, which, for post-war Ireland where it was still illegal and considered morally repugnant, was highly extraordinary and extremely brave. A major retrospective of Hennessy’s work was held at the IMMA Dublin in 2016. Discovered in Paris, this work is possibly from the period immediately prior to WWII, when Hennessy was briefly resident there.
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ART FOR £1,000 or LESS
In addition to the wider collection, the catalogue of works for sale at £1,000 or less remains online, with free domestic shipping for unframed works, and the remainder of shipping at cost.
Please do not hesitate to get in contact, should you have any queries.