Six Centuries of Art for Sale
Press Release December 2015
The Works on Paper Fair will be held at the Royal Geographical Society on Exhibition Road, South
Kensington (SW7), from Thursday 11- Sunday 14 February 2016. The Fair brings together around 50
art dealers from across the UK and Europe to sell all types of art on paper, from the last six
centuries. Drawings, prints, watercolours, photographs and posters are shown, from the Early
period through to Victorian, Modern and Contemporary. All works of art are vetted by a
committee of museum experts.
During the Fair there will be an exciting programme of talks, including Colin Wiggins, Special
Projects Curator at the National Gallery on prints and printmaking; and Simon Schama on 'The
Face of Britain: The Nation through its Portraits'. Combining his two great passions, British history
and art history, Schama's extraordinary storytelling reveals the truth behind the nation's most
famous portrayals of power, love, fame, the self, and the people.
Running alongside the Fair will be a rare chance to view unseen drawings and paintings by
author Laurie Lee, on loan from his daughter Jessy Lee. Laurie Lee is most famous for his semi-
autobiographical novel Cider with Rosie, but it has recently been discovered that he was also a
prolific and talented artist. (See separate press release for further details). Jessy Lee and
exhibition curators Derek Newman and Harry Moore-Gwyn will be conducting a panel
discussion, to further explore 'Laurie Lee - The Artist'.
The Fair is unique in that it is the only art fair to offer works exclusively on paper, allowing viewers
a highly focused yet varied selection within the field. The Fair will offer the chance to view and
purchase from arguably the highest concentration of quality works of art on paper in the UK.
Particular works of interest will include:
Clifford Fishwick (1923 - 1997)
Hills and Fields Dartmoor
Watercolour and gouache
21 x 30 cm
£1,450
Dealer - Oriel Fine Art
Dame Laura Knight (1877 - 1970)
A Circus Pony
Watercolour and gouache
55.9 x 76.2 cm
£28,000
Dealer - Kaye Michie
Jan Both (1615/18 - 1652)
Ponte Molle
Etching
19.8 x 27.5 cm
£500
Alexander Amanita
Yerashov
Untitled 2 Oil Series
India ink pen
60 x 80 cm
£4,000
Dealer - Roza Azora Gallery
Laurie Lee (1914 - 1997)
Self Portrait
Gouache
56 x 38.4 cm
Loan Exhibition ©Jessy Lee
Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992)
Peter Beard
Etching with aquatint
26.5 x 22.6 cm
£14,600
Dealer - The Whitley Art Gallery
Notes to Editors
Event: Works on Paper Fair
Location: Royal Geographical Society, South Kensington, SW7
Dates: Thursday 11 - Sunday 14 February 2016
Website: www.worksonpaperfair.com
Email: info@worksonpaperfair.com
Telephone: 01798 215 007
Ticket Price: Adults: £15, 14 - 21 years: £7.50, under 14 years old: free
For more images or for high resolution images please contact:press@worksonpaperfair.com
Exhibiting Dealers
Abbott and Holder • Babbington Fine Art Percy Barkes • Baron Fine Art• Chris Beetles Gallery
Beside the Wave •Blondes Fine Art •Camburn Fine Art •Marcus Campbell Art Books • The
Canon Gallery •Sarah Colegrave• Coombe Gallery •Maurice Edward Dear• M J Forster Gallery
•Martyn Gregory• Hanga Ten • Elizabeth Harvey-Lee •Gwen Hughes Fine Art •John Iddon Fine
Art •Francis Iles Gallery• Kevis House Gallery •John Lloyd Pictures• The Lost Tribe • James
Mackinnon •Manning Fine Art •Maritime Originals •Kaye Michie •Freya Mitton •Harry Moore-
Gwyn • Newman Fine Art •Charles Nugent •Stephen Ongpin Fine Art •Oriel Fine Art •Michael
Parkin Fine Art •Guy Peppiatt Fine Art • Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts • Roza Azora • John
Robertson Fine Art • Rountree Tryon Galleries • Neil Schofield • Vera Schumacher Fine Art •John
Sheppard & Stephen Welbourne Fine Art • David Simon Contemporary • Sorrell, Roxby Bott and
Treloar, RWS • John Spink • The Tolman Collection London • The Whitley Art Gallery • Zuleika
Gallery
Vetting committee:
Guy Peppiatt - Chairman (Guy Peppiatt Fine Art) • Dendy Easton (Picture Consultant, Bonhams)
• Neil Jennings (Jennings Fine Art) • Robert Kennan (Head of Modern and Contemporary
Editions London at Phillips de Pury & Company) • Anne Lyles (fomer curator, Tate Gallery) • Huon
Mallalieu (Sale Room Correspondent, Country Life Magazine) • Jane McAusland (Works on
Paper Conservator) • Harry Moore-Gwyn (Harry Moore-Gwyn British Pictures) • Charles Nugent
(former Curator of Drawings and Watercolours, Whitworth Art Gallery) • John Robertson (John
Robertson Fine Paintings) • Margaret Timmers (former Head of Prints, V&A)
The Works on Paper Fair, run by Hodgson Events, is being held at the Royal Geographical Society
(with the Institute of British Geographers), 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR