Antiques Trade Gazette 37


david moss email: davidmoss@atgmedia.com tel: 020 7420 6624


The last night of my youth


ARTISTS behaving badly is nothing new but seldom have they been captured at play so candidly as by photographer Dafydd Jones, whose work is the subject of a selling show at Idea Generation Gallery, 11 Chance Street, London E2 from October 6 to 16. A leading society photographer, for the


past three decades working in London and New York, Dafydd Jones has focused his lens on the art world and chronicled the rise of the artist and art world luminary as key players in celebrity culture. The results, including this 1983 shot


of the late Lucian Freud at Lord Antony Lambton’s London book launch, right, can be seen in Dafydd Jones: Scenes from the Art World which entertainingly shows how the art world has changed over the past 30 years. First published in Tatler, Jones’s art


world snaps have been featured in Vanity Fare, the New York Observer, the Sunday Telegraph and many other publications. Jones is said to neatly bridge the gap


between party guest and paparazzi and he has himself become a part of the social scene he covers, witnessing many key moments such as the opening of Tate Modern and the first Frieze fair. Country houses, the Chelsea Arts


Club, charity balls, Turner prizegivings and launch parties galore are featured and subjects include Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst (of course), David Hockney, Gavin Turk, Jay Jopling and


just about every other art world party animal you have spotted in the gossip columns. Last word to Dafydd Jones who says:


“The art world knows how to party and make the most of having a good time. A party of rich bankers would inevitably be dull. But the mixture of suits, Russian collectors, socialities, young artists, the newly rich, hangers on, models and journalists makes for a good party and a good set of shots. It’s a formula that has worked for 30 years.”


Blackadder turns to the Church


MOST antiques auctions are fairly serious affairs, and this is as true of Surrey saleroom Ewbank Clarke Gammon Wellers as any other. Except on September 28 and 29, when, alongside the usual fare, there is a touch of slapstick and pantomime with the offering of an extensive collection of theatre costumes. There is a copy of a wedding dress worn by Dawn French


in The Vicar of Dibley, as well as plenty of Blackadder-style outfits. I wonder how many readers remember the gritty 1970s BBC drama The Brothers and the sultry femme fatale of the day, Kate O’Mara? The baseball jacket she wore in the series is included in the sale. The costumes are being sold on behalf of St John’s Church,


Hartley Wintney to raise money towards a £2.6m building project and are donated by Barry Ellis who until recently ran Legends Costume Hire in the village. He formed a huge collection over the years, buying from the


BBC and theatrical costumiers but has now decided to turn his premises into a wedding venue (perhaps he should keep the Dawn French dress?). Incidentally, there was little doubt as to which saleroom


would be offered the collection. The Rev. Robin Ewbank, vicar of St John’s, is a cousin of the auction house’s principal Chris Ewbank.


Left: a Blackadder outfit modelled by John Snape of the saleroom Ewbank Clarke Gammon Wellers.


dealers’ diary Unwind with some jazz


IF anyone fancies a little musical light relief after a day manning the stands, or shopping, at this month’s LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, on the evening of September 22, LAPADA member Lydia Garrow and her jazz quartet will be playing at that famed jazz venue, the Bull’s Head pub in Barnes. Doors open at 8.30 and I hear Adam Kaye of Kensington’s


Butchoff Antiques (who are showing at Berkeley Square) has generously offered to buy the first round. London-based Lydia works with her mother Marilyn in the


long-established dealership Marilyn Garrow Fine Textiles and stands at many fairs, but not at this year’s Berkeley Square event.


Delving into the Pacific


LEADING Oceanic art dealer Anthony Meyer’s gallery in rue des Beaux Arts, Paris has long been a mecca for this increasingly popular branch of ethnographic art, and his stand at Maastricht every year proves a big draw with stunning, sculptural works. But from October 4 to 14, Galerie Meyer holds its first


show devoted to cutting edge contemporary Pacific art from George Neku and Rosanna Raymond, incorporating sculpture, multimedia and performance. The show contrasts nicely with the exhibition Maori, their


treasures have a soul which opens at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris also on October 4.


Decorative and youthful…


FOLLOWING the success of their website The Decorative Collective, the dealers Jill Perry and Jane Walton launched a sister site (www.thehoarde.com) at the beginning of September and immediately drummed up a very special recruit. They wanted to cater for younger,


aspiring dealers but could not have expected one quite as young as 17-year- old Will Butler from Kent, who decided not to go to college but to sell the edgy industrial chic pieces now so popular with interior decorators. Will, of course, was warned there


was no future in the trade, but says: “As a 17-year-old who knows better than everybody else, I decided to give it a go anyway.” Good for him, and he made a couple


Right: Will Butler, 17, the country’s youngest dealer?


Humphrey and Henry in Leeds


NOW retired and living in Leeds, Humphrey Crawshaw will be known to the trade for his many years running Milestone Antiques at Whittington, Staffordshire. Sadly, his wife of 38 years died last


year of lymphoma so on October 1 he hosts a special event at the chic Seven Arts Centre at Chapel Allerton, Leeds with all proceeds going to the Lymphoma Research Trust. It was a stroke of fortune that made


the evening possible. Humphrey recently made the acquaintance of the ever-


popular Roadshow personality Henry Sandon who will be in Leeds with friends on the first weekend in October. Humphrey found the Seven Arts


Centre had no bookings that weekend so booked the hall and Henry Sandon instantly agreed to appear. From 7pm Mr Sandon will offer a


free appraisal of the prized pots of those attending and then at 8pm the avuncular ceramics expert will deliver a lively talk. Tickets are £15 and the Seven Arts box office telephone is 0113 2626 777.


of sales on the first day. Meanwhile, The Decorative Collective


expands apace with Jill and Jane planning a big push in the United States next year.


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