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InSight No. 173
Chaïm Soutine | Les Platanes à Céret June 6, 2025 As Piano Nobile prepares to open a new display about Chaïm Soutine and British painting, InSight considers the artist’s years... Read more -
InSight No. 172
R. B. Kitaj | Place de la Concorde May 23, 2025 ‘I love Paris, why oh, why do I love Paris?’, sang Ella Fitzgerald. R. B. Kitaj loved it too. He... Read more -
InSight No. 171
Christopher Wood | The Yellow Man May 9, 2025 This week InSight considers a canonical masterpiece by the youthful, effervescent artist Christopher Wood, which was painted near the end... Read more
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InSight No. 170
Barbara Hepworth | Rhythmic forms April 25, 2025 Piano Nobile’s InSight series takes a detailed look at the stories and history surrounding a highlighted artwork and its artist. This long-form series offers an opportunity for a deeper examination of an artwork, to learn more about the works we offer and the hidden narratives woven through twentieth-century British art. Read more -
InSight No. 169
Henry Moore | Three Piece Reclining Figure Maquette No. 5 April 11, 2025 Henry Moore used fragmented forms to reimagine the human figure in two and three ‘piece’ sculptures. They related to a... Read more -
InSight No. 168
Stanley Spencer | Goats, Switzerland March 28, 2025 High in the Swiss Alps between the villages of Saas-Fee and Saas-Grund, a precarious footpath is punctuated by small wayside... Read more
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InSight No.166
Barbara Hepworth | Turning form (blue) February 28, 2025 A sculptor of profound vision and technical ability, Barbara Hepworth also made drawings and paintings loaded with qualities of texture... Read more -
InSight No. 165
Barbara Hepworth | Three curves with strings (Gold Mincarlo) February 14, 2025 InSight considers one of the rare sculptures that Barbara Hepworth made from gold, now on display in Piano Nobile’s exhibition... Read more -
InSight No. 164
Lucian Freud | Lord Goodman in his Yellow Pyjamas January 31, 2025 To coincide with Piano Nobile’s Viewing Room of etchings by Lucian Freud, InSight considers his friendship with ‘the great negotiator... Read more
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InSight No. 162
Patrick Heron | Orange, yellow, dull green and white : August 1965, 1965 December 20, 2024 As a complement to the festive season, InSight considers the radiant colours of Patrick Heron InSight No. 162 Patrick Heron,... Read more -
InSight No. 161
Lynn Chadwick | Pair of Sitting Figures VIII November 29, 2024 In the annals of twentieth-century sculpture, the work of Lynn Chadwick stands in a line that runs from Alexander Calder... Read more -
InSight No. 159
Euan Uglow | Passionate Proportion, 1964 October 18, 2024 Like Chardin three hundred years before him, Euan Uglow knew how to make a substantial image with oil paint. InSight... Read more
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InSight No. 158
Peter Lanyon | Still Air, 1961 October 4, 2024 Surveying the sea, coast and sky from the cockpit of a glider, Peter Lanyon experienced the Cornish landscape in a... Read more -
InSight No. 157
Ben Nicholson | December 1933 (first completed relief), 1933 September 24, 2024 Ben Nicholson’s relief carvings are a landmark in the history of modernist art. It was a new kind of art... Read more -
InSight No. 156
Alan Davie | Dragons' Eggs Assorted, 1962 September 9, 2024 As Piano Nobile prepares to open an autumn display of abstract painting made in sixties Britain, InSight considers the cultivated... Read more
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InSight No. 155
Frank Dobson | Head of a Girl (Study for Cornucopia) August 23, 2024 Emerging shortly after Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein and half a generation before Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, Frank Dobson... Read more -
InSight No. 154
William Scott | Expanded August 9, 2024 In abstract paintings made in the late fifties and sixties, William Scott proved himself an inventive maker of hieroglyphs. InSight... Read more -
InSight No. 153
Duncan Grant | Hampstead Heath July 19, 2024 A rural patch north of London has provided more than one English painter with rich material to make landscape into... Read more
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InSight No. 151
Edmund de Waal | no speaking is left in me June 20, 2024 Harnessing his gifts as a poignant and sensitive writer, Edmund de Waal employs a range of literary devices to create... Read more -
InSight No. 150
Augustus John | Landscape in Wales June 7, 2024 In paintings of Provence and Wales made before the First World War, Augustus John and his friends treated the landscape... Read more -
InSight No. 149
Henry Moore | Time/Life Screen: Maquette No. 4 May 24, 2024 Rising to the challenge of antiquity and throwing off the restrictions of wartime austerity, Henry Moore gave a distinctive face... Read more
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InSight No. 147
Augustus John | Portrait of Percy Wyndham Lewis April 26, 2024 To coincide with the opening of Piano Nobile’s new exhibition Augustus John & the First Crisis of Brilliance , InSight... Read more -
InSight No. 146
David Bomberg | Bomb Store April 12, 2024 Having been an official war artist in the First World War, David Bomberg felt himself well equipped to serve when... Read more -
InSight No. 145
Cyril Mann March 15, 2024 As a new stage adaptation of Cyril Mann’s life opens at The Playground Theatre this week, InSight tells the story... Read more
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InSight No. 144
Frank Auerbach | Head of Julia - Profile II March 1, 2024 In the art of Frank Auerbach, reassuring continuities—of studios, sitters, idiom—are pitched against the desperate struggle to do it differently... Read more -
InSight No. 143
Henry Moore | Ideas for Sculpture: Reclining Figures February 16, 2024 Like Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo before him, Henry Moore was a doodler. He liked to doodle and he doodled with... Read more -
InSight No. 142
Jean Cooke | The Wild Plum Tree February 2, 2024 Like so many busy or preoccupied people, the painter Jean Cooke had a messy garden. She turned it to her... Read more
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InSight No. 141
Duncan Grant | Still Life January 12, 2024 Duncan Grant’s early still-life pictures contributed to a new universe of creativity that skilfully brought together easel painting, decorative objects... Read more -
InSight No. 140
Barbara Hepworth | Preparation December 21, 2023 InSight considers a poignant work of angelic humanist art by a titan of the modernist movement in Britain—Barbara Hepworth. InSight... Read more -
InSight No. 139
Frank Auerbach | Head of Laurie Owen I December 8, 2023 Regarding only the appearance and physical presence of his sitters, Frank Auerbach makes pictures of the human head that defy... Read more
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InSight No. 138
Paul Nash | River and Trees November 24, 2023 Unlike so many artists who have gazed across the Seine and thought it a good idea to paint the bridges,... Read more -
InSight No. 137
Edmund de Waal | answer to an enquiry November 10, 2023 The ceramic installations of Edmund de Waal defy categorisation, operating somewhere between the earthy rigours of studio pottery and the... Read more -
InSight No. 136
R.B. Kitaj | Welcome Every Dread Delight October 27, 2023 To coincide with Piano Nobile’s recently opened exhibition R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles, InSight considers one of the paintings... Read more
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InSight No. 134
John Hoyland | 20.9.70, 1970 September 29, 2023 In the late sixties, John Hoyland took on new challenges in painting just as his life underwent significant personal and... Read more -
InSight No. 133
Lucian Freud | Nose (Janey Longman), circa 1986 September 15, 2023 After a brief period studying with the painter and gardener Cedric Morris, Lucian Freud developed his own distinctive and highly... Read more -
InSight No. 132
Spencer Gore | From a Window in the Hampstead Road September 8, 2023 Spencer Gore was ‘a perfect modern’ who found inspiration in the humdrum urban landscape. His paintings of Camden Town streets... Read more
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InSight No. 131
Augustus John | Portrait of Dorelia August 25, 2023 The archetypal muse, Dorelia McNeill inspired some of Augustus John’s most sensitive portraits in painting and drawing. One writer described... Read more -
InSight No. 130
Howard Hodgkin | Hotel August 4, 2023 Even as he poured his life experiences into painting, Howard Hodgkin often remained silent about the personal circumstances that his... Read more -
InSight No. 129
William Scott | Signs Orange and Ochre July 21, 2023 Orange is variously claimed to be the colour of joy, dance, unconditional love, health, power, vitality and, most literally, fire.... Read more
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InSight No. 128
Duncan Grant | Still Life with Fruit and Compotier June 30, 2023 Long before the era of paper cups and over-the-counter service, Duncan Grant and Henri Matisse savoured the civilising effects of... Read more -
InSight No. 127
Ben Nicholson | 1968 (ramparts) June 16, 2023 Riding a wave of critical and commercial success, in the decades after the Second World War Ben Nicholson travelled around... Read more -
InSight No. 126
Celia Paul | My Mother Facing June 2, 2023 Ahead of Piano Nobile’s Celebration of Portraiture exhibition, which coincides with the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery, InSight considers... Read more
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InSight No. 125
Walter Sickert | St Rémy: Chevet de l'Eglise May 19, 2023 For Walter Sickert, a little spring sunshine was a fine thing and not to be wasted. Deep shadows helped him... Read more -
InSight No. 124
Euan Uglow | Palm Tree May 5, 2023 This bank holiday, set sail for Euan Uglow’s painted desert island paradise. InSight No. 124 Euan Uglow, Palm Tree ,... Read more -
InSight No. 123
Henry Moore | Seated Woman April 21, 2023 The drawings of Henry Moore convey a sense of three dimensions in two, often equalling or even surpassing the substance... Read more
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InSight No. 122
William Crozier | Figure in Landscape, circa 1972 April 5, 2023 To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, InSight considers the Irish artist William Crozier’s Figure in Landscape... Read more -
InSight No. 121
Paul Nash | Harbour and Room, 1931 March 24, 2023 Darkest night enters an enclosed room. Dreams and the hinterland between waking and sleeping underlie Paul Nash’s surrealist masterpiece, which... Read more -
InSight No. 120
Jean Cooke | Seven Sisters March 10, 2023 For many people, a trip to the Sussex coast is a holiday. Piano Nobile’s new exhibition Jean Cooke: Seascapes &... Read more
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InSight No. 119
Ben Nicholson | squares & circles February 24, 2023 Ben Nicholson’s rare use of lithographs reflected his friendship with pioneers of improved print and typography. InSight No. 119 Ben... Read more -
InSight No. 118
Craigie Aitchison | Crucifixion with Angels February 9, 2023 Despite his Christian upbringing, Craigie Aitchison cared less for religion than he did for art. His use of Christian imagery... Read more -
InSight No. 117
Grayson Perry | Untitled (She Is My Mind) January 18, 2023 InSight considers an early work by the recently knighted artist Sir Grayson Perry. It is on display at the London... Read more
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InSight No. 115
Nicola Bensley | Frank Auerbach: A Morning in the Studio December 7, 2022 One morning in 2015, the photographer Nicola Bensley paid a visit to Frank Auerbach in his Mornington Crescent studio. Her... Read more -
InSight No. 114
Alberto Giacometti | Nature morte avec bouteille November 23, 2022 Alberto Giacometti was one of the most respected European artists of the mid-twentieth century. His attitude to work was an... Read more -
InSight No. 113
Lynn Chadwick | Iron Composition November 9, 2022 British art of the 1950s was ruled by twisted forms and an angst-ridden mood. The idiomorphic sculptures of Lynn Chadwick... Read more
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InSight No. 112
Paul Nash | Ruin in the Forest of Dean October 26, 2022 Paul Nash was a poet painter whose landscape paintings evince a hidden world, overflowing with Blakean imagery and fragmentary historical... Read more -
InSight No. 110
Frank Auerbach | Reclining Head of Julia September 26, 2022 To mark the opening of Piano Nobile’s exhibition Frank Auerbach: The Sitters, InSight considers the recent work of Britain’s greatest... Read more -
InSight No. 109
Lynn Chadwick | Beast VII September 8, 2022 Like many artists of his generation, the sculptor Lynn Chadwick instilled his work with a mood of trauma and struggle.... Read more
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InSight No. 108
John Armstrong | On the Promenade, 1947 August 24, 2022 Retreating to Cornwall in 1945, John Armstrong began making visionary paintings of leaves and feathers. His imagery brims with surreal... Read more -
InSight No. 107
Damien Hirst | Trust, 2003 July 13, 2022 Once the chief enfant terrible of the Young British Artists, Damien Hirst has long since swapped formaldehyde sharks for a... Read more -
InSight No. 106
Leon Kossoff | Seated Figure No. 1 June 29, 2022 The writer N.M. Seedo was the defining model of Leon Kossoff’s early career. A painting of her - Seated Figure... Read more
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InSight. No. 105
Paul Nash | Sunrise over Valley, 1943 June 16, 2022 Paul Nash's view of the world was transformed by an imaginative grasp of landscape history, an interest in druidic ritual,... Read more -
InSight No. 103
Duncan Grant | Portrait of Simon Bussy, circa 1922-25 May 26, 2022 A man of good ties and a painter of curiously vivid pictures, Simon Bussy was one of the few truly... Read more -
InSight No. 102
Albert Irvin | Cloud, circa 1960-65 May 11, 2022 Between 1955 and 1965, ‘a tremendous mood of confidence’ charged British abstract painting with freshness and profundity. As the Second... Read more
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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. 99
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
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InSight No. 98
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. 97
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. 96
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
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InSight No. 95
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.94
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. 92
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
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InSight 91
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. 90
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. 89
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
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InSight 88
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 86
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 86
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
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InSight No. 85
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. 84
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
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