28 13th November 2010 dealers’ dossier
Anna Brady reports
email:
annabrady@atgmedia.com tel: 020 7420 6625
Trinity open in Mayfair
At a time when most are economising, the ambitious young co-directors of Trinity House Paintings, Simon Shore and Steven Beale, are opening a new London gallery – and in some style. The two-floor gallery at 50 Maddox Street in Mayfair cannot have come cheap. Although welcoming visitors from
Monday, the gallery formally opens for business on Thursday, November 11, showing Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern British works. The existing gallery in the Cotswolds
village of Broadway, established in 2006, will remain open, exhibiting 19th century pictures. Speaking of the expansion, Steven
Beale said “Many of our clients live in the capital and Mayfair is where everyone comes to buy the best art in the world.” Tel: 020 7499 8958
The time for all things Welsh
HUSBAND-and-wife team Tim and Betsan Bowen share a passion for Welsh vernacular furniture and folk art, and the result can be seen at their biannual shows of stock at their gallery in Ferryside, Carmathenshire. The next, from November 13 to 20,
has the 30 items at prices from £450 to £9500 for the longcase clock, detail below, by John Evans of Lampeter. The eight-day movement is in a Welsh
oak case c.1790, and the clock would have been used by a merchant as the moon phase to the arch shows high water at what was then the busy port of Carmarthen. The clock had been in a collection in Holland, until Tim was told about it and brought it back to Wales.
www.timbowenantiques.co.uk
Left: c.1790 Lampeter longcase – £9500 from Tim and Betsan Bowen.
Slimming and facelift suit Winter Olympia
WITH all the talk and speculation surrounding the summer Olympia fair, one should not overlook the Winter Fine Art & Antiques Fair at Olympia, which is coming up from November 15 to 21 in the National Hall of the West London exhibition centre.
Unlike the bigger summer event, run jointly with David
Lester, the more low-key winter edition is under the sole ownership of Clarion Events. A few years ago, this was the most successful of Clarion’s
three Olympias but it has since dropped in size considerably – this year, as last, there are 140 exhibitors of all disciplines, compared with the 200 in 2008 and 235 in 2007. But although smaller, last year, with the new show director Chris Gallon at the helm, general opinion was that this fair did quietly get on and do the business. This year’s show will follow the same blueprint as 2009,
although Chris promised some investment in the look of the fair, so new carpets, better stands and a central champagne bar are promised. There are seven names who are
totally new to the venue, including Nicholas Bagshawe Fine Art, Philip Carrol and Blackbrook Gallery. Seven exhibitors who have stood at the summer fair will also make their winter debut, among them Paul Mayhew Fine Art, Christopher Butterworth and Mitofsky Antiques. Once again, as expected at this
traditional event, there will be a solid parade of period furniture dealers and the likes of Lennox Cato, David Bedale and Craig Carrington return to the show, with Hansord Antiques revisiting this year after a break. Ian Butchoff however has decided against standing this year. The Petworth dealers Wakelin and
Linfield can always be relied upon to bring good English furniture and they will take to Olympia some of their more formal stock, including the William and Mary walnut marquetry escritoire illustrated on this page. The late 17th century piece came from
a private collection in Sussex and will be priced at £65,000. On a more eccentric note, the antique
walking cane specialist Geoffrey Breeze will take his collection of Canes Of The Famous And The Infamous, which includes the sword cane the former
dictator of the Central African Republic, Emperor Bokassa once bought at James Smith and Son, London. Geoffrey will also have another reference to a despotic emperor on a c.1810 cane with a whalebone shaft and marine ivory handle depicting Emperor Napoleon. There are notable absentees among
the jewellery dealers. The big names of Hancocks, Grima and Peter Edwards will all be missing this year, but there will still be six jewellers present including The Gilded Lily and Wimpole Antiques. As ever, Olympia will cater for all
sorts of tastes and enthusiasms. London- based pottery specialist Sylvia Powell will have two Picasso signed and framed commemorative tea towels from peace festivals. One, Colombe aux Fleurs was made for the Moscow festival of 1957. The other, Festival pour la Paix for the Berlin festival in 1951, is priced in excess of £5000. The Aberdeenshire Pre- Raphaelite dealer Campbell Wilson has some Morris and Co designs for tiles, depicting Figures playing Musical
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Above: a William and Mary walnut marquetry escritoire priced at £65,000 from Wakelin and Linfield at Olympia. Below: pen, ink and watercolour on vellum illustration of ‘Twas bent beneath and blue above by Glasgow Girl Jessie Marion King (1875-1949) – around £12,000 from Campbell Wilson.
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