22 11th February 2012 dealers’ dossier
Anna Brady reports
email:
annabrady@atgmedia.com tel: 020 7420 6625
New York duo set up shop in Mayfair
IN 2006, Christopher Eykyn and Nicholas Maclean combined their 29 years of experience at Christie’s, where they were co-heads of the Impressionist and Modern art departments, and established Eykyn Maclean, a New York-based private gallery. They deal in top end Impressionist
and Modern European and American art, and although most of their business is conducted on a discreet, private basis, last year they exhibited at Pavilion of Art & Design London for the first time, with sales including a Henry Moore Madonna and Child ceramic to London dealer Danny Katz for around £300,000. The pair opened a New York space in
2010 and this week they open a London gallery at 30 St. George Street, Mayfair, with a launch exhibition of Cy Twombly: Works from the Sonnabend Collection, from February 7 to March 17. Unusually for a launch exhibition
of a commercial gallery, this is a loan exhibition rather than a selling show, but the 11 works are borrowed from the collection of the well known New York dealer of avant garde modern art, the late Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007). “Cy Twombly was an appropriate artist
for us to show as he crosses borders having established his early career in the US and then settled in Italy where he was influenced by European classical traditions, said Nick Maclean. “Helped by the seminal Cy Twombly
show at the Tate in 2008, the exhibition will appeal to an initiated audience here in London, before the show heads to our gallery in New York in April.” The exhibition includes some works by
Twombly (1928 –2011) which have never before been exhibited publicly, dating from 1956 to the mid 1970s. Eykyn Maclean plan to hold a mix of
commercial and loan exhibitions at the London space. Speaking of the decision to open here,
Nick said: “London is the capital of the European art world just as New York is the capital of US art, so having galleries in both locations plays an important role. “I’m also from London so opening
here was a natural decision.”
www.eykynmaclean.com
Heading back to college for lesson in global art
IN those heady pre-recession days, London was flooded by a rush of openings of young, internationally owned galleries selling Modern and Contemporary art from across the globe. Although some succumbed to the subsequent economic crash, many are still here. Six years ago, it was the spate of
these multinational gallery openings that inspired fair organisers Gay Hutson and Angela ‘Bunny’ Wynn to set up a fair to cater for them. That became the 20/21 International
Art Fair, the younger, more libertarian globetrotting sister to the 20/21 British Art Fair, their much-liked fair for exclusively British works which celebrates its 25th birthday in October. The sixth 20/21 International Art Fair
will open from February 16-19 at its usual venue, the Royal College of Art in Kensington Gore, London, and this year, adding to the long and varied list of previous guests, the author and keen art collector Jeffrey Archer will open the fair at noon on February 16. The RCA is not the most glamorous of
venues, but it works well, and something about the college’s creative scruffiness and lingering smell of linseed oil adds a relaxed vivacity and a link with the practising artists of today. There are around 60 exhibitors this
year, showing a varied mix of paintings, original prints, drawings, collage, some photography and sculpture dating from 1900 to the present day. Artists from China, India, Japan,
Russia, the Ukraine, Poland and Serbia are represented alongside a sizeable amount of British and Western European stock by well known names. Last year, the organisers enlarged the
fair by ten stands, taking more space on the lower level, and the fair remains at this larger size for the upcoming event. Generally speaking, there is a lower
price point at the International than at the British event, with prices starting at a
Above: One-legged Spirit of Walnut by the Nigerian artist Rufus Ogundele (1946-1996),15in x 19in (37 x 48cm) oil on paper, signed, titled and dated ’95 on backboard – £1500 from Red Raven Arts.
Above: star of regular 20/21 International Art Fair exhibitor Panter & Hall’s stand will be this oil on canvas by Mary Fedden, entitled Casey’s Bar, which measures 3ft x 3ft 11in (90cm x 1.2m) and is signed and dated 2003. The asking price is £85,000.
few hundred pounds. There are four new faces this year.
Two are Modern British specialists – Katharine House Gallery from Marlborough and Freya Mitton, who now deals from her Somerset home after working at Sotheby’s for many years. This will be Freya’s first fair. Also new are Jenna Burlingham
from Hampshire, previously of Phillips auctioneers and Offer Waterman & Co, who brings contemporary pieces alongside 20th century British works, and Portal Painters, London-based dealers
of idiosyncratic pictures. There are also a few who return to the
fair after a break. They are Rebecca Hossack of London
and New York, who deals in an eclectic mix of international contemporary art, with a particular interest in Aboriginal artists; London-based Richard Nathanson who specialises in the work of Albert Houthuesen; the Wren Gallery from Burford with predominantly contemporary work and Elspeth Moncrieff of Petworth gallery Moncrieff-Bray, also with contemporary
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