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November 11, 2020
InSight No. XLIV
Raoul Dufy | Dans les prairies de l'Eure Horses were the life-long passion of Raoul Dufy. No other animal recurs so frequently in the history of art, yet... Read more -
November 5, 2020
The Late Show: Ben Nicholson
Antiques Trade Gazette | Frances Allitt By the 1950s British artist Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) had achieved international recognition and was embarking on the second part of... Read more -
November 4, 2020
InSight No. LXIII
Gillian Ayres, Choo, 1996 One of the most independent British abstract painters of the later twentieth century, Gillian Ayres’s career spanned the swinging ‘sixties... Read more
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October 28, 2020
InSight No. LXII
Lucie Rie | vases Born in Austria and displaced to Britain by the Nazis, Lucie Rie became one of the leading potters working in... Read more -
October 21, 2020
InSight No. LXI
H. H. La Thangue, Beachcombers, c. 1891 Henry Herbert La Thangue belonged to a generation of talented, unassuming English painters. He worked doggedly from the subject outdoors... Read more -
October 14, 2020
InSight No. LX
Ben Nicholson, November 1959 (Mycenae 3 - brown and blue) Ahead of Piano Nobile's Ben Nicholson exhibition, InSight considers a work which the artist made after swapping Cornwall for Switzerland... Read more
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October 7, 2020
InSight No. XXXIX
Howard Hodgkin | Window (Indian Leaves) After his first visit to India in 1964, Howard Hodgkin continued a life-long relationship with the country. Near the end... Read more -
October 1, 2020
InSight No. XXXVIII
Adam Birtwistle | Tutu, F.W. de Klerk and Mandela At a time of heightened awareness about racial inequality, these three portraits of South African anti-apartheid leaders have special poignance.... Read more -
September 25, 2020
When does a fabric swatch fetch £8,750? When it’s by Omega Workshops
The Financial Times Robert Travers was interviewed for an article in The Financial Times about the prices fetched by Bloomsbury Group artists. Their... Read more
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September 23, 2020
InSight No. XXXVII
Mark Gertler | Still Life, Flowers One of the precocious talents of his generation, Mark Gertler made advances in painting and forged connections among the Bloomsbury... Read more -
September 16, 2020
InSight No. XXXVI
Édouard Vuillard | Marcelle Aron seated in the greenhouse at Ormesson Édouard Vuillard belonged to a generation of artists and writers who were fascinated with the domestic interior: a space that... Read more -
September 9, 2020
InSight No. XXXV
Anthony Caro | Toward Centre In 1960, Anthony Caro crossed the Atlantic. Upon his return to Britain he began producing sculpture that was immediately recognised... Read more
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September 2, 2020
InSight No. XXXIV
William Turnbull | 1-1965 The Scottish artist William Turnbull went between tachiste Paris and colour field New York, and devised a versatile succession of... Read more -
August 25, 2020
InSight No. XXXIII
Fernand Léger | La Rue Fernand Léger’s art brought together the city’s thrumming with the peculiar lives of the people who live there. An ardent... Read more -
August 18, 2020
InSight No. XXXII
John Golding | G III (Y.B.) A masterly scholar and a painter of light, John Golding was a man of divergent talents, beginning his exhibiting career... Read more
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August 12, 2020
InSight No. XXXI
Gwen John | Sleeping Nun In late summer of 1903, Gwen John moved from Britain to France. Arriving by steamer in Bordeaux, she walked up... Read more -
July 31, 2020
InSight No. XXX
Paula Rego | Island of the Lights from Pinocchio Growing up in Portugal in the 1940s, Paula Rego was awed by the technicolour riches and prancing creatures of one... Read more -
July 29, 2020
InSight No. XXIX
Josef Herman | Women on the Shore Josef Herman was a British Polish emigré, bereaved by the atrocities of the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and inspired by... Read more
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July 21, 2020
InSight No. XXVIII
William Crozier | Black Lake In 1964, William Crozier appeared in a remarkable Arts Council exhibition of ‘Six Young Painters’. Amidst work by Peter Blake,... Read more -
July 17, 2020
InSight No. XXVIII
Cyril Mann, Daffodils in a Brass Jug Isolated from the mainstream trends of British art and warring against recurring bouts of mental illness, Cyril Mann regarded painting... Read more -
July 14, 2020
InSight No. XXVI
Euan Uglow, Night Scene Throughout his career, Euan Uglow arranged his female sitters in physically challenging, non-naturalistic poses. For him, the picture mattered more... Read more
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July 8, 2020
InSight No. XXV
Eric Gill | Boxers In the nineteenth century, almost all sculptors used clay to model their work; assistants then transferred the model into a... Read more -
July 3, 2020
InSight No. XXIV
Cecil Collins | The Waters of the Sun From his formative years, Cecil Collins sought to reveal a hidden world which lies beyond the visible. As a student... Read more -
June 30, 2020
InSight No. XXIII
Pablo Picasso | Profils et Têtes Pablo Picasso was a conjurer. Images with a life of their own proliferated from the tip of his pencil, always... Read more
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June 25, 2020
InSight No. XXII
Anish Kapoor | Mountain Anish Kapoor has a reputation for spectacle. His steel doodle – the ‘Orbit’ – loops above East London, while his... Read more -
June 23, 2020
InSight No. XXI
Leslie Marr | Lake Mckerrow, New Zealand In a few months’ time, Leslie Marr will celebrate his 98th birthday. A man of diverse talents, he travelled the... Read more -
June 16, 2020
InSight No. XX
Alexander Calder | Untitled Alexander Calder began his career making humorous art, with wry drawings and playful wire sculptures of animals and acrobats. In... Read more
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June 12, 2020
InSight No. XIX
Paul Nash | A Private World Paul Nash’s reputation as one of Britain’s great landscape artists is well-known. Less well known are his photographs, an artistic... Read more -
June 9, 2020
InSight No. XVIII
William Scott | Three still-life paintings Today, William Scott is widely known as a semi-abstract painter with Cornish connections. In the early 1950s, however, his artistic... Read more -
June 4, 2020
InSight No. XVII
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant | The Famous Women Dinner Service For this final focus on the art of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, InSight recalls the story of the Famous... Read more
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June 1, 2020
InSight No. XVI
Vanessa Bell | Flowers in a Vase, Long Crichel House In this second focus on the art of Bloomsbury, Vanessa Bell travels to Dorset – to an idyllic village rectory,... Read more -
May 27, 2020
InSight No. XV
Duncan Grant | David 'Bunny' Garnett Smoking a Pipe To celebrate the beginning of summer, InSight is dedicating three articles to works by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. In... Read more -
May 22, 2020
InSight No. XIV
Walter Sickert | The Studio: The Painting of a Nude In a special edition of InSight, Richard Shone writes about a mesmerising nude from the beginning of Sickert's Camden Town... Read more
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May 19, 2020
InSight No. XIII
Lucian Freud | Head of a Woman Whippets – toddler-scale descendants of the greyhound – were first introduced to Lucian Freud sometime in the late 1970s. His... Read more -
May 13, 2020
InSight No. XII
Barbara Hepworth | Disc with Strings (Moon) At 4.20 a.m. this morning, the tide in St Ives harbour reached its low point. A resident of the town... Read more -
May 6, 2020
Artnet News
Frieze New York 2020 Piano Nobile was feautred in artnet news this week. Focussing on Frieze New York Online 2020, the article highlights the... Read more
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May 6, 2020
William MB Berger Prize Shortlist 2020
London Leon Kossoff: A London Life has been long-listed for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History. The book... Read more -
May 5, 2020
InSight No. XI
Bryan Wynter | Wolf Country In a recent contribution to The Guardian, Simon Armitage said he has been using the current period of isolation to... Read more -
April 28, 2020
InSight No. X
Leon Kossoff | Dalston Lane This third InSight in our three-part focus on Leon Kossoff addresses a work from the 1970s: painted in the artist’s... Read more
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April 24, 2020
InSight No. IX
Leon Kossoff | Young Man Seated InSight continues its focus on Leon Kossoff, one of Britain’s greatest twentieth-century figure painters. Young Man Seated was made at... Read more -
April 21, 2020
InSight No. VIII
Leon Kossoff | Study from 'Minerva Protects Pax from Mars' by Rubens At Frieze New York this May, Piano Nobile was due to present a collection of Leon Kossoff’s ‘old master’ drawings.... Read more -
April 16, 2020
InSight No. VII
Ben Nicholson | May 1955 (green chisel) Some neighbours make themselves a nuisance by playing the radio too loudly, crashing about in the kitchen, or having regular... Read more
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April 14, 2020
InSight No. VI
Eric Kennington | Portrait of Carl Hansen, 1938 Over half of the UK’s pork consumption today is imported. In recent years, a quarter of these imports have come... Read more -
April 9, 2020
InSight No. V
Craigie Aitchison | Crucifixion 8 On Easter morning this weekend, as the dawn light begins to creep beneath the cavernous vaults of Salisbury Cathedral, it... Read more -
April 6, 2020
InSight No. IV
Egdar Degas | Walter Sickert InSight No. IV Edgar Degas | Walter Sickert Danseuse vue de dos: Port de bras, c. 1875-85 | Little Rachel... Read more
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April 2, 2020
InSight No. III
Michael Andrews | Ayer's Rock Piano Nobile's 'InSight' series takes a detailed look at art, artists, critics and collectors, highlighting the stories behind a single... Read more -
March 31, 2020
InSight No. II
Winifred Nicholson | The Warwick Family, c. 1925-26 Piano Nobile's 'InSight' series takes a detailed look at art, artists, critics and collectors, highlighting the stories behind a single... Read more -
March 25, 2020
InSight Series
Piano Nobile's 'InSight' series takes a detailed look at art, artists, critics and collectors, highlighting the stories behind a single... Read more
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