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InSight No. 101
Euan Uglow | Seated Nude, circa 1954 April 27, 2022 In the 1950s, the Slade School of Fine Art fostered a new generation of figure painters. Long hours in the... Read more -
InSight No. 100
Harold Gilman | London Street Scene in Snow March 30, 2022 For its one hundredth edition, InSight considers a remarkable London street scene by Harold Gilman – a famously diligent, slow... Read more -
InSight No. XCIX
William Crozier | Still Life March 16, 2022 To coincide with Piano Nobile’s new exhibition William Crozier: Seize the Flow’r, InSight considers a significant group of still life... Read more -
InSight No. XCVIII
Ben Nicholson | November 1960 (Anne) March 2, 2022 Ben Nicholson returned to relief carving with gusto shortly before moving to Switzerland in 1958. Throughout his Swiss period, his... Read more -
InSight No. XCVII
Irma Stern | Summer Morning in Madeira February 16, 2022 Well-travelled and inquisitive, the South African artist Irma Stern used her work to explore the people and places she visited.... Read more -
InSight No. XCVI
Barbara Hepworth | Two Forms February 2, 2022 To Barbara Hepworth, the act of carving by hand was highly significant. After giving birth to triplets in October 1934,... Read more -
InSight No. XCV
David Hockney | Portrait of Bernard Nevill, 1970s January 20, 2022 THE PEACOCK REVOLUTION SAW THE TRANSFORMATION OF MENSWEAR IN BRITAIN, WITH FROTHY HANDKERCHIEFS AND DRESSY PRINTS. BERNARD NEVILL AND DAVID... Read more -
InSight No. XCIV
Craigie Aitchison | Butterflies in a Landscape, 1964 December 20, 2021 Piano Nobile is pleased to represent the Estate of Craigie Aitchison, a remarkable artist who often achieved perfection through simplicity.... Read more -
InSight No. XCIII
Spencer Gore | Country Landscape, 1909-10 c. December 9, 2021 Spencer Gore was ‘a perfect modern’, beloved of his contemporaries and the author of bright, cleanly executed visions of the... Read more -
InSight No. XCII
Elisabeth Frink | Assassins I, 1963 December 2, 2021 Caught between the exciting, sometimes shocking events of the time and an intense, insular focus on artistic form, it was... Read more -
InSight XCI
Joan Miró | Untitled, 1959 November 24, 2021 A contemporary and compatriot of Picasso, Joan Miró won fame as a Surrealist in the 1920s and later built an... Read more -
InSight No. XC
Jean Cooke | Cave Painting I, 1965 c. November 17, 2021 Sussex's chalk landscape has inspired painters and writers from Enid Bagnold and William Nicholson to the subject of this week's... Read more -
InSight No. LXXXIX
Walter Sickert | Nuit d'Été, circa 1906 November 10, 2021 In this final instalment focusing on Sickert, InSight compares one of his most significant nudes with paintings by his friends,... Read more -
InSight LXXXVIII
Walter Sickert | This Venice that the Italians called 'Venezia' November 3, 2021 This Venice that the Italians called 'Venezia' From Dickens to the prostitutes of Venice, this week InSight delves deeper into... Read more -
InSight LXXXVI
Walter Sickert, The New Bedford October 27, 2021 Over the next three weeks, to celebrate Piano Nobile's current exhibition SICKERT: The Theatre of Life, InSight delves into the... Read more -
InSight LXXXVI
Euan Uglow | Still Life with Honeysuckle | 1968 October 20, 2021 Euan Uglow was a painter’s artist, exploring proportion and perspective with fastidious care and transcribing appearances into art with cautious... Read more -
InSight No. LXXXV
Craigie Aitchison | Baker’s Egg, 1974 October 13, 2021 A lifelong lover of ‘kitsch’, Craigie Aitchison achieved a rare synthesis of style and content in paintings that stand out... Read more -
InSight No. LXXXIV
Gluck | Cottage with Cat, 1967 October 6, 2021 This week Insight considers the artist born Hannah Gluckstein. Shedding the gender that was assigned at birth, Gluckstein became Gluck,... Read more -
InSight No. LXXXIII
R.B. Kitaj | Fulham Road Cinema Bathers, 1988 September 29, 2021 A regular and avid cinema-goer, R.B. Kitaj revered the medium of film. He often borrowed figures from film stills and... Read more -
InSight No. LXXXI
Walter Sickert | Portrait of Mrs Barrett, 1906 September 15, 2021 Ahead of Piano Nobile’s major exhibition opening next Thursday, SICKERT: The Theatre of Life, InSight considers one of Sickert’s earliest... Read more -
InSight No. LXXX
Albert Irvin O.B.E, R.A. | Lexington II, 1989 September 8, 2021 A pioneering abstract painter of the post-war years, Albert Irvin OBE RA made some of his most ambitious and inspiring... Read more -
InSight No. LXXIX
Frank Auerbach | Reclining Nude, 1954 September 1, 2021 Though Frank Auerbach received his formal training at St Martin's School of Art, the evening classes of David Bomberg which... Read more -
InSight No. LXXVIII
David Bomberg | Ronda El Barrio, San Francisco, 1954 July 21, 2021 As summer heat starts to build, withering the grass and scorching the earth, David Bomberg's Spanish vistas provide an equivalent... Read more -
InSight No. LXXVII
Barbara Hepworth | Maquette, Theme and Variations, 1970 July 14, 2021 Barbara Hepworth's final large-scale commission prompted a late flowering in her career. The project inspired a companion piece, a work... Read more -
InSight No. LXXVI
Barbara Hepworth | Reclining Figures July 7, 2021 Over the next two weeks, InSight presents two works by one of the great sculptors of the twentieth century: Barbara... Read more -
InSight No. LXX
Graham Sutherland | Armoured Form June 30, 2021 In the late 1940s and the early 1950s, Graham Sutherland experienced a burst of artistic invention and critical recognition. Graham... Read more -
InSight No. LXXIII
Lynn Chadwick | Seated Figure I, 1973 June 16, 2021 Internationally renowned and highly inventive with his materials, most notably his adoption of the plaster-like substance Stolit, Lynn Chadwick was... Read more -
InSight No. LXXII
Paul Nash | Spring Landscape, circa 1930s June 10, 2021 The landscape art of Paul Nash (1889-1946) encompasses both modernist impulses and a traditional rural life. Paul Nash Spring Landscape,... Read more -
InSight No. LXXI
Tony Bevan | Locked Fingers June 2, 2021 Grinding his own pigments and working from his own image, Tony Bevan is a self-sustaining artist of inventive means and... Read more -
InSight No. LXX
Cedric Morris | Portrait of Rupert Doone May 26, 2021 Now on view in Piano Nobile’s exhibition ‘Defining British Art’, this portrait was painted in the wanderjahr which Cedric Morris... Read more -
InSight No. LXIX
Grayson Perry | Map of Nowhere and The American Dream May 12, 2021 Piano Nobile’s new exhibition Grayson Perry: Ceramics and Prints includes two examples of the artist’s map-like works. InSight considers the... Read more -
InSight No. LXVIII
Grayson Perry | Essex, Middlesex, Sussex and Layers of Meaninglessness May 4, 2021 To coincide with Piano Nobile’s Frieze New York Viewing Room and a new exhibition, Grayson Perry: Ceramics and Prints, InSight... Read more -
InSight No. LXVII
Glyn Philpot | Two Muses at the Tomb of a Poet, 1937 April 28, 2021 After a period living in Paris in 1931, Glyn Philpot changed his style. As a friend said, the new style... Read more -
InSight No. LXVI
Mark Gertler | Still Life, Vase with Flowers April 21, 2021 Despite perennial bouts of mental and physical ill health, Mark Gertler remained intensely focused on his work. The mid-1920s marked... Read more -
InSight No. LXV
Anthony Caro | Table Piece CXLI April 14, 2021 The mid-1970s was a time of increased exposure for Anthony Caro and his rising international fame coincided with a highly... Read more -
InSight No. LXIV
Irma Stern | Portrait of a Woman April 7, 2021 After settling in Cape Town in 1920, Irma Stern started making regular painting trips to tribes around the Cape. Working... Read more -
InSight No. LXIII
Ben Nicholson | 1971 (two squares and very green) March 31, 2021 In 1965, Ben Nicholson discovered a remarkable field of ancient standing stones in Brittany. For the next six years, he... Read more -
InSight No. LXII
Spencer Gore | The White Horse, Hertingfordbury, 1909 March 24, 2021 Described by his friend Sickert as ‘a perfect modern’, Spencer Gore’s early paintings belong to the world of Impressionism. InSight... Read more -
InSight No. LX
Ivon Hitchens | Sussex Landscape March 10, 2021 Ivon Hitchens’s style was always highly individual. The free approach to colour and design in his later easel paintings developed... Read more -
InSight No. LIX
Ithell Colquhoun | Self-Portrait March 3, 2021 With just one month until entries close for the 2021 Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, InSight considers a self-portrait by Ithell... Read more -
InSight No. LVIII
Ben Nicholson | Pisa, 1951 February 24, 2021 Ben Nicholson produced only a small number of intaglio prints in his career. Each example is marked by pictorial subtlety... Read more -
InSight No. LVII
William Nicholson | The Grey Shawl February 17, 2021 For a blissful period of five years, the painter William Nicholson owned a rural retreat on the Sussex coast. The... Read more -
InSight No. LVI
Frank Auerbach | Head of J.Y.M. February 10, 2021 Like his good friend Lucian Freud, another painter who worked unremittingly from life, Frank Auerbach is known for the schedule... Read more -
InSight No. LV
Craigie Aitchison | Alan McNaught and Bird February 3, 2021 From 1962 until his death, Craigie Aitchison spent much of his career painting black sitters. He once said, ‘When people... Read more -
InSight No. LIV
Michael Andrews | Garden at Noel Road January 27, 2021 Today, Islington is stereotyped as the domain of affluent socialists. When Michael Andrews lived there in the 1950s, however, it... Read more -
InSight No. LIII
John Hoyland | 16.9.66 January 20, 2021 In a special edition of InSight, Sam Cornish considers the ‘pillars of space’ in John Hoyland’s work from the 1960s.... Read more -
InSight No. LII
Walter Sickert | The Proposal January 13, 2021 Picasso reportedly declared that lesser artists borrow and great artists steal. Walter Sickert was an avowed thief, routinely making use... Read more -
InSight No. LI
Bryan Wynter | Maremma January 6, 2021 Though Cornwall was a defining part of his work and his lifestyle, it was not the limit of Bryan Wynter’s... Read more -
InSight No. L
Duncan Grant | Still Life with Compotier and Still Life December 21, 2020 Duncan Grant’s still-life paintings of the 1910s are remarkable for their stylistic variety. However, they were not just technically accomplished.... Read more -
InSight No. XLIX
R.B. Kitaj | Fed Up, Again December 16, 2020 Despite his melancholic temperament, R.B. Kitaj made dazzling paintings which promised ‘not only to do Cézanne and Degas over again... Read more -
InSight No. XLVIII
Leon Kossoff | School Building, Willesden, Winter December 9, 2020 Leon Kossoff lived and work his whole life in London. In the 1980s, however, a surge of recognition in the... Read more -
InSight No. XLVII
Peter Coker | Fish with Grill December 2, 2020 Despite being closely related to contemporary Kitchen Sink realism, Peter Coker’s ‘meatscapes’ of the 1950s emerged from a direct engagement... Read more -
InSight No. XLVI
Paul Nash | Sea Wall November 27, 2020 Paul Nash’s time in Swanage marked the high point of his interest in Surrealism. He was immensely fond of the... Read more -
InSight No. XLV
Frank Auerbach | Building Site near St Paul's: Winter November 18, 2020 Building sites were a recurring subject in Frank Auerbach’s work of the mid-1950s. These cavernous, densely painted constructions won him... Read more -
InSight No. XLIV
Raoul Dufy | Dans les prairies de l'Eure November 11, 2020 Horses were the life-long passion of Raoul Dufy. No other animal recurs so frequently in the history of art, yet... Read more -
InSight No. XLIII
Gillian Ayres, Choo, 1996 November 4, 2020 One of the most independent British abstract painters of the later twentieth century, Gillian Ayres’s career spanned the swinging ‘sixties... Read more -
InSight No. XLII
Lucie Rie | vases October 28, 2020 Born in Austria and displaced to Britain by the Nazis, Lucie Rie became one of the leading potters working in... Read more -
InSight No. XLI
H. H. La Thangue, Beachcombers, c. 1891 October 21, 2020 Henry Herbert La Thangue belonged to a generation of talented, unassuming English painters. He worked doggedly from the subject outdoors... Read more -
InSight No. XL
Ben Nicholson, November 1959 (Mycenae 3 - brown and blue) October 14, 2020 Ahead of Piano Nobile's Ben Nicholson exhibition, InSight considers a work which the artist made after swapping Cornwall for Switzerland... Read more -
InSight No. XXXIX
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. XXXVIII
Adam Birtwistle | Tutu, F.W. de Klerk and Mandela October 1, 2020 At a time of heightened awareness about racial inequality, these three portraits of South African anti-apartheid leaders have special poignance.... Read more -
InSight No. XXXVII
Mark Gertler | Still Life, Flowers September 23, 2020 One of the precocious talents of his generation, Mark Gertler made advances in painting and forged connections among the Bloomsbury... Read more -
InSight No. XXXVI
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. XXXV
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 -
InSight No. XXXIV
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. XXXIII
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. XXXII
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 -
InSight No. XXXI
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. XXX
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. XXIX
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 -
InSight No. XXVIII
William Crozier | Black Lake July 21, 2020 In 1964, William Crozier appeared in a remarkable Arts Council exhibition of ‘Six Young Painters’. Amidst work by Peter Blake,... Read more -
InSight No. XXVIII
Cyril Mann, Daffodils in a Brass Jug July 17, 2020 Isolated from the mainstream trends of British art and warring against recurring bouts of mental illness, Cyril Mann regarded painting... Read more -
InSight No. XXVI
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. XXV
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. XXIV
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 -
InSight No. XXIII
Pablo Picasso | Profils et Têtes June 30, 2020 Pablo Picasso was a conjurer. Images with a life of their own proliferated from the tip of his pencil, always... Read more -
InSight No. XXII
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. XXI
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. XX
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 -
InSight No. XIX
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
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