Galleries - March 2014

e MARTYN GREGORY GALLERY 34 Bury Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6AU Early English Watercolours, British Paintings; also leading specialist in China Trade Paintings and pictures relating to the Far East. Mon–Fri 10–6 mgregory@dircon.co.uk www.martyngregory.com t 020 7839 3731 f 020 7930 0812 f PAISNEL GALLERY 9 Bury Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6AB 20th Century British Art, Post-War and St Ives. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat & other times by appt info@paisnelgallery.co.uk www.paisnelgallery.co.uk t 020 7930 9293 f 020 7930 7282 g STERN PISSARRO GALLERY 66 St James’s Street, SW1A 1NE Specialising in works by Camille Pissarro and three generations of his descendants together with Impressionist, post-Impressionist and Modern Masters. Mon–Sat 10–6 stern@pissarro.com www.pissarro.net t 020 7629 6662 f 020 7409 0077 h WHITE CUBE 25-26 Mason’s Yard, St James’s SW1Y 6BU www.whitecube.com t 020 7930 5373 i WHITFORD FINE ART 6 Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6BN 40th Anniversary. Twentieth Century British and European Paintings and Sculpture including Post War Abstraction, Pop Art, French Cubism and Modernism. Aboriginal Art. Mon–Fri 10–6 info@whitfordfineart.com www.whitfordfineart.com t 020 7930 9332 f 020 7930 5577 a LYNN PAINTER-STAINERS PRIZE at Mall Galleries, SW1A 2BJ Featuring the very best in British representational painting. Mar 17–22. Showcasing work of both established and young contemporary artists, selected from open submission by a panel of highly regarded art world figures. All works for sale. www.lynnpainterstainersprize.org.uk 44 GALLERIES MARCH 2014 a AKTIS GALLERY 10-11 Park Place, SW1A 1LP Mixed Show of Modern European drawings and paintings. Tue–Sat 10–2, 3–6 info@aktis-gallery.co.uk www.aktis-gallery.co.uk t 020 7629 6531 b CHRISTIE’S (St James’s) 8 King Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6QT t 020 7839 9060 c GROSVENOR GALLERY 21 Ryder Street, SW1Y 6PX Modern Indian and 20th Century British Art. ‘Host’ – Recent Paintings by Mark Shields. Feb 14–Mar 7. A major exhibition of 99 works across two London galleries – see also Browse & Darby, Cork Street. Mon–Fri 9.30–5.30 art@grosvenorgallery.com www.grosvenorgallery.com t 020 7484 7979 f 020 7484 7980 d ILLUSTRATIONCUPBOARD 22 Bury Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6AL A unique art gallery representing the most distinguished contemporary book illustrators from around the world. Open weekdays 9.30–6, Sat 11–5 gallery@illustrationcupboard.com www.illustrationcupboard.com t 020 7976 1727 MAP 27 LONDON ST JAMES’S P I C C AD I LL Y P R IN C E'S A R C A D E A R CAD E P A R K P L S T J A M E S ' S P L R YD ER S T R E E T BU R Y STREE T D U K E S T R E E T K I N G S T R E E T JERMY N ST R EET PA LL M A LL PICCADILLY ST JAME S 'S STREE T MASON'S YARD a e g d h i f c b TRAFALGAR SQ Art as an Investment? A Survey of Comparative Assets by Melanie Gerlis. 192pp, Lund Humphries hbk, £30 A widely researched and clearly written analysis by the Art Market Editor of The Art Newspaper. Melanie Gerlis examines art as an investment class in comparison to other assets such as public equities (stocks and shares), gold, wine, property, private equity and luxury goods. Not least of the difficulties in assessing whether art is a good investment (in the purely financial sense) is the general paucity of hard information. Only around half of the market’s transactions – through an estimated 23,000 auction houses – are a matter of public record; those of some third of a million art dealers are not. So, what does the author conclude? A hint lies in the book title’s question mark . . . AA BOOK reviews