Thu 1 Jul, 2021-Wed 7 Jul, 2021
We are delighted to offer our alumni free tickets to Masterpiece London 2017. Book your tickets and use the code couins6 .
We are also very pleased to announce that we are collaborating with gallery Piano Nobile on two events which we would like to invite our alumni and supporters.
The talks are free to attend but prior registration required. Please see below for further details and RSVP to info@piano-nobile.com .
Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, The Famous Women Dinner Service (part 1/50, Vanessa Bell),1932-33. Hand painted ceramic, 25.5 x 2cm. Courtesy Piano Nobile
The Famous Women Dinner Service: a rediscovered Bloomsbury masterpiece.
Friday 30 June, 14:00, Piano Nobile Stand D19.
Lost and recently re-discovered, The Famous Women Dinner Service is the most important of all Bloomsbury ceramic works and is one of the most historically, socially and artistically significant Bloomsbury works of art to be brought to the market. The Famous Women Dinner Service was produced by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant for Kenneth Clark, Director of the National Gallery, in 1932. Bell and Grant painted 50 Wedgwood blank ceramic plates with the portraits of 50 famous women. The subjects span history, ranging from actresses to queens, pin-ups to literary figures, muses to saints, as well as portraits of Bell and, the only man in the service, Grant. The dinner service is an exceptional piece of artistic history, profoundly before its time and foreshadowing iconic feminist works produced in the second half of the twentieth-century.
Lucian Freud, Blond Girl , 1985. Etching on Somerset woven paper, 69.2 x 54.3cm. Courtesy Piano Nobile
Walter Sickert, Lucian Freud and Euan Uglow: the human figure in Modern British art.
Monday 3 July, 17:00, Piano Nobile Stand D19.
Tracing the trajectory of figurative art in Britain over the twentieth-century, this talk explores the legacy of three pre-eminent artists, Walter Sickert, Euan Uglow, and Lucian Freud. The lure of the human figure – the fascination with the body, its surroundings, its interactions – was felt by numerous Modern British artists. Depicting the female nude with a previously unknown intimacy, Walter Sickert’s legacy upon generations of artists was without parallel.