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The Treasure House Fair
Royal Hospital Chelsea 27 Jun - 2 Jul 2024 Art Fair Piano Nobile was pleased to return to The Treasure House Fair in 2024. We highlighted works from across the twentieth century, with early paintings by Augustus John and Walter Sickert, Duncan Grant and Paul Nash, examples of London School paintings by R. B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach, alongside... Read more -
Augustus John
& the First Crisis of Brilliance 26 Apr - 13 Jul 2024 The exhibition Augustus John and the First Crisis of Brilliance delves into the early works of one of the most important British artists of the 20th century, Augustus John (1878-1961), and examines why he was heralded as the ‘saviour’ of British painting at such a young age.
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William Crozier
Nature into Abstraction 14 Feb - 22 Mar 2024 Between 1958 and 1961, William Crozier (1930—2011) was making paintings inspired by his encounters with landscape. The results were not ‘landscapes’, ‘cityscapes’ or even ‘pictures’ but freeform expressions of his subjective viewpoint. He explained in 1958: ‘[painting] is seeing with an eye preset in peculiar focus so that the painter... Read more -
R B Kitaj
London to Los Angeles 25 Oct 2023 - 26 Jan 2024 Piano Nobile R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles was the first retrospective of the artist’s work in a decade. It provided a chronological overview of Kitaj's career, exploring the relationship between his art and the places he lived. Although he travelled widely, spending seasons and sometimes whole years in California, Catalonia,... Read more -
Frieze Masters
Ethel Walker | Modern Woman 11 - 15 Oct 2023 Dame Ethel Walker was one of only four women artists to be awarded a damehood in the twentieth century. Her primary subject was other women, both clothed and unclothed, though she also painted still lifes and seascapes. Piano Nobile’s stand focused on Walker’s depiction of women and included portraits, nudes... Read more -
The Treasure House Fair
Royal Hospital Chelsea 22 - 26 Jun 2023 Art Fair The Treasure House Fair is a celebration of outstanding and rare art and antiques. Held at The Royal Hospital Chelsea the fair continues the tradition of its predecessors, Masterpiece and The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair. Piano Nobile's display included a selection of twentieth century paintings, drawings, sculpture and... Read more