26 19th March 2011 dealers’ dossier
Anna Brady reports
email:
annabrady@atgmedia.com tel: 020 7420 6625
Neil sets Moody for a revival
THE BADA fair is itself a showcase for member dealers but Neil Wilson of the Aberdeenshire-based Victorian and Modern British picture specialists Campbell Wilson, often takes it a step further, using the opportunity to hold a small exhibition showcasing the work of a recently discovered collection by a little known artist. This year, Neil will bring a collection
of works by father and daughter, Victor Hume Moody (1896-1990) and Catherine Olive Moody (1920-2009), which he purchased last year at the sale of the Malvern estate of Catherine. Victor was head of the Malvern
School of Art from 1935 to 1962 when Catherine took over the post. She was a well known figure and champion of the arts in Malvern until her death. Most of the 45 works in the show are
by Victor, who was a die-hard exponent of figurative painting at a time when the Modernist movement was eschewing the figure in favour of abstraction. He also used historical subjects as
inspiration and was known as “the last Classicist”, for reasons that become obvious when you look at this painting, below, of The Judgement of Paris. This was a theme to which Victor
returned repeatedly over his career and the particular 2ft 10in x 2ft 6in (86 x 76cm) oil on canvas version shown here will be one of the most expensive pieces in the show, priced at £4200. However, prices start at around £450 for some of the drawings.
The King’s Road
■ Top-notch and trusted, BADA returns to put is marquee on the social calendar
A STALWART London event in a pretty enviable location, the annual BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair returns for the 19th time to its marquee on Duke of York Square, off the King’s Road, Chelsea, from March 23 to 29.
Don’t expect much to frighten the horses,
this fair is about top-notch traditional antiques and art. It’s the sort of trusted annual event that is
etched in the social calendar of both affluent Chelsea locals and their country cousins, many of whom make this their one London fair a year, safe in the knowledge of exactly what to expect from this reliable event. More than 100 members of the British
Antique Dealers’ Association exhibiting at the fair also know what to expect of their reliable clientele. On their well-appointed stands will
be pieces for most tastes – furniture, paintings, silver, jewellery, ceramics, glass, clocks, design pieces and antique carpets. There are seven newcomers this year,
among them Charles Mackinnon of St James’s-based Mackinnon Fine Furniture, British watercolours specialist Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, also from St James’s, and Freshfords Fine Antiques of Bath with period furniture. Former Grosvenor House participant
Michael Lipitich will also return to the fair this year, with a number of pieces of furniture about which he is particularly excited. Also increasing their presence on
the London fairs stage are good friends Robbie Timms, from Bedfordshire- based 18th and 19th English furniture specialists S&S Timms, and Mark Goodger, owner of Hampton Antiques from Northamptonshire, who will be the first specialist antique box dealer to stand at the fair. Long-standing participants include
Thomas Coulborn & Sons from Sutton Coldfield with 18th and 19th century English and Continental furniture and works of art; London-based Frank Partridge with furniture, clocks, objects of vertu and painting and clocks and barometers specialist Anthony Woodburn from Lewes. London dealers Godson & Coles, and
Lucy Johnson both juxtapose period English furniture with 20th century British art.
Above: at the BADA fair, first-time exhibitors Hampton Antiques will have this pair of Georgian satinwood cutlery boxes by John Folgham, specialist case and knife makers, based at 81 Fleet Street, London from 1750 until 1803. They will be priced in the region of £14,000.
Left: among the characteristic mix of English furniture and 17th to 19th century textiles which Oxfordshire dealers Witney Antiques will take to the BADA fair is this c.1660, 23in x 2ft (58 x 61cm) raised-work mirror. Mirrors were quite a luxury in the 17th century and often framed according to their status. This one has a tortoiseshell mount and later tortoiseshell frame, and is skilfully embroidered with the King and Queen facing each other under a canopied dais, surrounded by royal beasts and a mermaid. The mirror has a long provenance and was previously in the collection of Lord and Lady Harris of Peckham. It will be priced at around £50,000.
Jeremy Taylor of the Taylor Gallery,
London, for whom this has always proved to be a solid selling fair, will have 20th century British art. Included on his stand will be some of
his Edward Seago pictures – those he has left anyway – from the 25th anniversary exhibition he held in Cork Street back in February, a show largely dedicated to this enduringly popular British artist. Adding an academic perspective to commercial fairs through loan exhibitions
Crime on the menu at black-tie dinner
A REMINDER of one of the grimmer practicalities of life in the world of arts and antiques comes in the elegant surroundings of the Cellini restaurant at the BADA fair which, on the evening of Thursday, March 23, will host a Charity Gala Dinner in aid of Crimestoppers. Crimestoppers are an independent charity who provide
Above: Judgement of Paris, oil by Victor Moody – £4200 from Campbell Wilson at the BADA fair.
a 24-hour phone line for people who can give information about crime anonymously. Proceedings will start at 6pm with
a pre-dinner talk by, Michael Naxton, the curator of Lord Ashcroft’s Collection of Gallantry Awards, which will be followed by a chance to view the fair, a raffle and a three- course dinner, before a charity auction to end the evening. Tickets for the dinner cost £2000 per table of ten or £225
each. To purchase tickets or request a formal invitation to this black-tie event please contact Jessica Truman on 020 8835 3700 or e-mail
jessica.truman@
crimestoppersuk.org.
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