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InSight No. 39
Howard Hodgkin | Window (Indian Leaves) October 7, 2020 After his first visit to India in 1964, Howard Hodgkin continued a life-long relationship with the country. Near the end... Read more -
InSight No. 36
Édouard Vuillard | Marcelle Aron seated in the greenhouse at Ormesson September 16, 2020 Édouard Vuillard belonged to a generation of artists and writers who were fascinated with the domestic interior: a space that... Read more -
InSight No. 35
Anthony Caro | Toward Centre September 9, 2020 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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InSight No. 34
William Turnbull | 1-1965 September 2, 2020 The Scottish artist William Turnbull went between tachiste Paris and colour field New York, and devised a versatile succession of... Read more -
InSight No. 33
Fernand Léger | La Rue August 25, 2020 Fernand Léger’s art brought together the city’s thrumming with the peculiar lives of the people who live there. An ardent... Read more -
InSight No. 32
John Golding | G III (Y.B.) August 18, 2020 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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InSight No. 31
Gwen John | Sleeping Nun August 12, 2020 In late summer of 1903, Gwen John moved from Britain to France. Arriving by steamer in Bordeaux, she walked up... Read more -
InSight No. 30
Paula Rego | Island of the Lights from Pinocchio July 31, 2020 Growing up in Portugal in the 1940s, Paula Rego was awed by the technicolour riches and prancing creatures of one... Read more -
InSight No. 29
Josef Herman | Women on the Shore July 29, 2020 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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InSight No. 26
Euan Uglow, Night Scene July 14, 2020 Throughout his career, Euan Uglow arranged his female sitters in physically challenging, non-naturalistic poses. For him, the picture mattered more... Read more -
InSight No. 25
Eric Gill | Boxers July 8, 2020 In the nineteenth century, almost all sculptors used clay to model their work; assistants then transferred the model into a... Read more -
InSight No. 24
Cecil Collins | The Waters of the Sun July 3, 2020 From his formative years, Cecil Collins sought to reveal a hidden world which lies beyond the visible. As a student... Read more
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InSight No. 22
Anish Kapoor | Mountain June 25, 2020 Anish Kapoor has a reputation for spectacle. His steel doodle – the ‘Orbit’ – loops above East London, while his... Read more -
InSight No. 21
Leslie Marr | Lake Mckerrow, New Zealand June 23, 2020 In a few months’ time, Leslie Marr will celebrate his 98th birthday. A man of diverse talents, he travelled the... Read more -
InSight No. 20
Alexander Calder | Untitled June 16, 2020 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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InSight No. 19
Paul Nash | A Private World June 12, 2020 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 -
InSight No. 18
William Scott | Three still-life paintings June 9, 2020 Today, William Scott is widely known as a semi-abstract painter with Cornish connections. In the early 1950s, however, his artistic... Read more -
InSight No. 17
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant | The Famous Women Dinner Service June 4, 2020 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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InSight No. 15
Duncan Grant | David 'Bunny' Garnett Smoking a Pipe May 27, 2020 To celebrate the beginning of summer, InSight is dedicating three articles to works by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. In... Read more -
InSight No. 12
Barbara Hepworth | Disc with Strings (Moon) May 13, 2020 At 4.20 a.m. this morning, the tide in St Ives harbour reached its low point. A resident of the town... Read more -
InSight No. 11
Bryan Wynter | Wolf Country May 5, 2020 In a recent contribution to The Guardian, Simon Armitage said he has been using the current period of isolation to... Read more
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InSight No. 9
Leon Kossoff | Young Man Seated April 24, 2020 InSight continues its focus on Leon Kossoff, one of Britain’s greatest twentieth-century figure painters. Young Man Seated was made at... Read more -
InSight No. 7
Ben Nicholson | May 1955 (green chisel) April 16, 2020 Some neighbours make themselves a nuisance by playing the radio too loudly, crashing about in the kitchen, or having regular... Read more -
InSight No. 6
Eric Kennington | Portrait of Carl Hansen, 1938 April 14, 2020 Over half of the UK’s pork consumption today is imported. In recent years, a quarter of these imports have come... Read more
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InSight No. 4
Egdar Degas | Walter Sickert April 6, 2020 InSight No. 4 Edgar Degas | Walter Sickert Danseuse vue de dos: Port de bras, c. 1875-85 | Little Rachel,... Read more -
InSight No. 2
Winifred Nicholson | The Warwick Family, c. 1925-26 March 31, 2020 Piano Nobile's 'InSight' series takes a detailed look at art, artists, critics and collectors, highlighting the stories behind a single... Read more -
InSight Series No. 1
EDUARDO PAOLOZZI Newton After Blake, 1995 March 25, 2020 Piano Nobile's 'InSight' series takes a detailed look at art, artists, critics and collectors, highlighting the stories behind a single... Read more