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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 -
InSight No. 33
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
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InSight No. 81
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. 80
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. 79
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
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InSight No. 78
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. 77
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. 76
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
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InSight No. 70
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. 73
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
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InSight No. 71
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. 70
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. 69
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
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InSight No. 67
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. 66
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. 65
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
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InSight No. 64
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. 63
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. 62
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
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InSight No. 61
Leon Kossoff | Willesden Junction March 17, 2021 Not until the beginning of the twentieth century did modern artists shift attention away from railway stations towards the track... Read more -
InSight No. 60
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. 58
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
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InSight No. 57
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. 54
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. 53
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
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InSight No. 51
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. 49
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. 47
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
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InSight No. 64
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. 43
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. 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
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InSight No. 37
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. 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. 28
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. 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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
InSight No. 16
Vanessa Bell | Flowers in a Vase, Long Crichel House June 1, 2020 In this second focus on the art of Bloomsbury, Vanessa Bell travels to Dorset – to an idyllic village rectory,... Read more -
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
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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 -
InSight No. 10
Leon Kossoff | Dalston Lane April 28, 2020 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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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... Read more -
InSight No. III
Michael Andrews | Ayer's Rock April 2, 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 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
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