Galleries - April 2012

MAP 26 MARYLEBONE 43. GALLERIES APRIL 12 h OSBORNE SAMUEL 23a Bruton Street, London W1J 6QG Prints & Drawings. Apr 4–May 5. Includes works by Andrews, Auerbach, Bawden, Craxton, Freud, Frink, Hockney, Kentridge, Moore, Nicholson, Power, Scott and Vaughan. Catalogue available on request. Exhibiting at the London Original Print Fair, Stand 12, Apr 19–22, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1, exhibiting Modern and Contemporary prints from Andrews to Wadsworth. *ad Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 10–2 info@osbornesamuel.com www.osbornesamuel.com t 020 7493 7939 f 020 7493 7798 i PYMS GALLERY 9 Mount Street, London W1K 3NG Fine Art Dealers. British, Irish, French Paintings. Advice and verbal valuations given free. Mon–Fri 9.30–5.30, Sat by appt paintings@pymsgallery.com www.pymsgallery.com t 020 7629 2020 f 020 7629 2060 j SARAH MYERSCOUGH FINE ART 15–16 Brooks Mews, off Davies Street, London W1K 4DS B&W (Monochrome). Apr 5–May 5. *ad Artists have been specially commissioned to produce monochromatic works. This exhibition includes painting, works on paper and contemporary craft objects. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 12–3 tube Bond Street info@sarahmyerscough.com www.sarahmyerscough.com t 020 7495 0069 k SOTHEBY’S (Bond Street) 34–35 New Bond Street, London W1Y 9HD Auctions held daily. Islamic, Oriental and European works of art, paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints, books, manuscripts, furniture, silver, musical instruments, photographs, icons, tribal art. Free advice and valuations given on the premises. Please contact for viewing times. Mon–Fri 9–4.30 t 020 7293 5000 a WHITFIELD FINE ART 23 Dering Street, London W1S 1AW Specialist Dealers in Old Master Paintings. www.whitfieldfineart.com t 020 7355 0040 f 020 7409 1531 a GRAHAM HUNTER GALLERY 81 Baker Street, London W1U 6RQ Contemporary Paintings and Prints. Mon–Fri 9.30–6, Sat 10–5, Sun 11–4 info@grahamhuntergallery.co.uk www.grahamhuntergallery.co.uk Professional onsite framing service. info@creativepictureframing.co.uk t 020 7935 7794 b MARK GALLERY 9 Porchester Place, Marble Arch, London W2 2BS 16th–19th C. Russian Icons. Also modern lithographs & etchings from the Ecole de Paris, including Picasso, Chagall, Dali, Miro, Fini, Cassigneul, etc. Members of BADA and CINOA. Mon–Fri 10–1, 2–6, Sat 11–1 info@markgallery.co.uk www.markgallery.co.uk t 020 7262 4906 f 020 7224 9416 c RAILINGS GALLERY 5 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 8UT Original limited edition prints by contemporary artists. Innovative picture framing and exhibition framing. Mon–Fri 9.30–6, Sat 10–5.30 info@railings-gallery.com www.railings-gallery.com t 020 7935 1114 f 020 7486 9250 d THOMPSON’S GALLERY 15 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 9UB Robert Kelsey. Mar 14–Apr 5. Mixed Exhibition of Contemporary Artists. Apr 9–30. Work by Simon Garden, James Fullarton, Simeon Stafford, Tony De Wolf, Mike Healey, Matthew Alexander, Jo Taylor, Paul Wright, Carl Melegari and more. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 10.30–5.30, Sun 11–5 enquiries@thompsonsgallery.co.uk www.thompsonsgallery.co.uk t 020 7935 3595 PORC H ES TE R RD G E O R G E S T B E L L S T R E E T N E W C A V E N DIS W I GM O R E S T C R AWF O R D S T M A R Y L E B O N E H I G H S T N AU G H T S T SE YMOU R ST EDGWARE ROAD R O V E B AK ER S T REET S EYMOUR PLACE G L OUC E ST E R P L A C E R D S T R E E T S T W A Y MA R Y LEB ON E RO A D a dc b Baker Street Marylebone Regent's Park Edgware Road trade. This has now all given way to a contemplative abstract idiom which goes further in a shorter time. The turning point was his dawning respect for the Golden Section, the archaic notion of divine harmony shown mathematically by a rectangle whose sides have the ratio 1:1.61803, or 5:8. Ayres uses the same, simple, rectangular, device as the central motif of his watercolours, sometimes ruling the lines, often gauging them by sight. Already limited, his colours are getting darker: lately maroons and blacks have replaced aquamarines and ochres. Occasionally he gives the rectangles a muted coating of gold or silver acrylic. ‘I can’t handle red. And greens are boring’. How can something so repetitive be so expressive? Rothko knew how, more or less. ( Oriel Q Map 4) Caroline Juler