Antiques Trade Gazette 39


week’s exhibitors


museums continue to catalogue Spanish drawings as Italian.


He has a Ph.D. in art history and is about to publish a catalogue raisonné of the drawings of the painter Mariano Salvador Maella, a contemporary of Francisco de Goya.


The gallery sees its participation in Master Drawings Londonas essential to foster the knowledge and collecting of Spanish drawings outside of Spain.


During Master Drawings London they will be exhibiting at the Air Gallery (lower gallery) in Dover Street.


KATRIN Bellinger celebrates 25 years in the business, since she began dealing in Old Master drawings in Munich. In 2002 she joined Konrad Bernheimer at P&D Colnaghi, now celebrating their 250th


anniversary, where she is building on Colnaghi’s long


tradition of dealing in Old Master drawings. Exhibitions of works on paper are frequently held at the Old Bond Street galleries and she participates regularly at the major art fairs in Maastricht, New York and Paris.


FORMERLY managing director of Spink- Leger Pictures before setting up his own gallery in Clifford Street in 2002, Lowell Libson has an international reputation as one of the leading dealers in British paintings, watercolours and drawings. With 35 years’ experience, he has helped form notable private and public collections on both sides of the Atlantic. He believes that the process of acquiring a work of art should be an enjoyable and stimulating experience and has created a gallery that offers clients the opportunity to discuss and view pictures in discreet and comfortable surroundings.


SPHINX Fine Art, named after the 14th century BC sphinxes outside the Russian Academy of Arts, St Petersburg, were founded in London by Edward Strachan and Roy Bolton in 2007.


The gallery have a dual focus, Russian and Old Masters pictures. Edward Strachan’s expertise in Russian art began while reading Soviet and Russian Studies at the School for Slavonic and East European Studies in London (UCL) and was followed with 20 years of living throughout the former USSR and St Petersburg.


Roy Bolton developed his expertise writing as an arts columnist while at Oxford. He


spent most of the last decade heading the Old Master Pictures department at Christie’s. Through Sphinx Books the two have written and published six major catalogues on Russian and Old Master Paintings. Their current exhibition, Views of Russia & Russian Works on Paper, is an overview of 19th century Russian draughtsmen and includes 154 works by artists such as Repin, Goncherova, Roerich and others.


BASED in London, Stephen Ongpin has more than 20 years’ experience in Old Master and 19th century drawings. He began his career at P&D Colnaghi in 1986, working at the firm’s New York branch for ten years before moving to London in 1996. In 2001, he joined Baroni in forming Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd, with Stephen continuing to assume responsibility for the firm’s drawings department. He has, to date, researched and written nearly 30 scholarly catalogues of drawings.


Since 2006, Stephen Ongpin has worked independently as a private dealer and consultant in the fields of Old Master, 19th century and Modern drawings, and in 2007 he opened a ground-floor gallery in Mason’s Yard in St James’s. He continues to mount annual exhibitions of 16th to 20th century Master Drawings in London and New York, as well as publishing two catalogues a year. Stephen Ongpin Fine Art


participates in the Master Drawings events in London and New York, and also exhibits at the Salon du Dessinin Paris.


STERN Pissarro Gallery (originally Stern Art Dealers) was established in 1963 in Notting Hill by Meir Stern, dealing purely in 19th century paintings. In 1984, his son, David, took over the running of the gallery and in 1988, following his marriage to Lélia Pissarro, great grand- daughter of Camille Pissarro, a separate department was set up dedicated to four generations of the Pissarro family. Over the years, this unique Pissarro collection has became the focus of the gallery’s operations. In August 2009, Stern Pissarro Gallery moved to St James’s. Within their collection the gallery offer oils, watercolours, pastels, drawings and etchings by all the Pissarro family artists, starting in the low hundreds and rising to many thousands of pounds.


Besides the Pissarro Family collection, the gallery still have 19th century paintings, focusing on English and European oil paintings, mainly from the second half of the 19th century, as well as a very active 20th century department covering a wide range of movements including Post- Impressionist, School of Paris, Eastern European and Modern British.


ROBERT Stoppenbach and François Delestre opened Stoppenbach & Delestre on Cork Street, London, in 1982, choosing to focus almost exclusively in French 19th and early 20th century paintings and drawings. They have specialised in


uncovering little-known artists while keeping a strict eye on the quality of the work. They have participated in a number of international fairs over the years including Master Drawings London, the Paris Biennale, TEFAF Maastricht, Grosvenor House, London and the Fine Art Fair, New York.


François Delestre is currently preparing


the supplement to the catalogue raisonné of Charles François Daubigny.


THEOBALD Jennings was founded in 2005 and combines over 50 years of experience in the art world by directors Simon Theobald and Guy Jennings. Simon spent nearly 20 years at Christie’s where he was a senior director. Guy spent nearly 25 years with London auctioneers,first at Christie’s then at Sotheby’s, where


he was deputy chairman of Europe. They set up their business in Albemarle Street specialising in late 19th century and 20th Century art.


Simon has a particular speciality in German and


Austrian art, while Guy’s speciality is the French and Italian schools. Recent exhibitions have included


Paintings and watercolours by Emil Nolde, George Grosz , Drawings from the artist’s estate, and Otto Mueller, Works on Paper from a private collection. Guy Jennings currently serves on the committee of the Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD).


FOR more than 20 years, Thomas Williams Fine Art have been dealing in top-quality Old Master drawings from the heart of London’s art market in Old Bond Street. Quality has been the driving force behind the gallery’s acquisitions, which have included rare and exceptional European drawings from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Founded in 1987, Thomas Williams Fine Art have sold to world class museums and to some of the greatest private collections. Every July, the gallery hold their annual exhibition, attracting both new visitors and regular clients.


TRINITY Fine Art have taken part in Master Drawings Londonfrom the outset. “Not only has it given clients good reason to brave our antiquated lift and visit us on the third floor of Bruton Street, but it has enabled us, through the constancy of the event for the past ten years, to meet new clients and consolidate our relationship with museum curators and specialist buyers,” say John Winter and Jonathan Mennell, who founded the business in 1984. Operating principally in London and New York, but also in Milan, they have specialised in mainly Italian sculpture and works of art from the Renaissance to the 19th century, selling frequently to


museums and collectors internationally. They also regularly participate in Master Drawings New York, the Salon du Dessin in Paris and the Biennalein Florence as well as other international fairs.


W·S Fine Art Ltd/Andrew Wyld specialise in 18th and 19th century British and Irish Art. Early watercolours and drawings are the main focus, but they also deal in oil paintings by artists of this period. Constable, Gainsborough and Turner regularly feature in their exhibitions alongside works by their contemporaries. The firm were established in 2000, though Andrew Wyld has been a dealer of British watercolours and drawings for 40 years. The gallery occupies the first floor of 27 Dover Street.


Roy Bolton


Katrin Bellinger


David Stern


Stephen Ongpin


Guy Jennings


Simon Theobald


François Delestre


Robert Stoppenbach


Andrew Wyld


Jonathan Mennell


John Winter


Thomas Williams


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