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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 -
A Celebration of Portraiture
Twentieth-Century Britain 5 Jun - 31 Jul 2023 Piano Nobile A Celebration of Portraiture
Portraits from Twentieth-Century Britain
An exhibition in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery
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Jean Cooke
Seascapes & Chalk Caves 3 Mar - 10 May 2023 Piano Nobile When painting in Sussex, Jean Cooke wrapped herself in the forces of nature. Her pictures of beach, cliff and sea were made over a forty-year period from 1965 until her death, and each one shows her awareness of ‘the wind always blowing, the light changing, the tide going in or... Read more -
Frank Auerbach
The Sitters 23 Sep - 16 Dec 2022 Piano Nobile Frank Auerbach: The Sitters was the first dedicated overview of the artist's portrait heads. Including over forty paintings and drawings, the exhibition explored the special connection between Auerbach and his 'sitters' - the dedicated models who have attended weekly sessions over months, years, then decades. A range of work made... Read more -
Cyril Mann: The Girl in the Green Jumper
129 Portland Road, W11 12 Apr - 31 May 2022 Piano Nobile When the painter Cyril Mann met his wife-to-be Renske van Slooten in 1959, a significant new chapter in his career began. A bright-eyed art student newly arrived in London from Dutch Indonesia, she inspired a decade of vivid, light-infused paintings. Mann's subjects of the period include his young bride (clothed... Read more -
William Crozier
Seize the Flow'r 11 Mar - 31 May 2022 Piano Nobile Returning from a visit to New York in 1979, William Crozier had a rush of creative energy. Newly confident in his European identity and inspired by art of the past, he produced a cycle of still life work. This art is by turns mesmeric and effulgent, pulsing with the memory... Read more