The final exhibition in Agnew's historic gallery will be of English painting, drawing and sculpture drawn from the 17th century to the present day.  Artists represented include Hogarth, Romney, Turner, Constable, Sickert, Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore and on the contemporary side David Inshaw, Sarah Raphael and John Wonnacott.

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Christopher P Wood was born in Leeds in 1961 and studied at Leeds Polytechnic before completing an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea in 1986. He has had a series of solo shows in London, in Yorkshire and Australia. Nicholas Usherwood, editor of Galleries say of his work, "In recent years his work has taken on an increasingly visionary quality where he uses an intense, high-pitched colour and a virtuoso painterly technique in his paintings to create imagery that seems to describe some kind of earthly paradise of an almost Blakean strangeness and beauty".

http://www.christopher-p-wood.com

Please view our press release for more information about the exhibition.

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Born in Rochester, Kent in 1942, John Holden studied first at the Medway College of Art and Design and then as a post-graduate student in the Royal Academy Schools in the mid-1960s. Influenced there by his tutors, William Scott, Derrick Greaves and Edward Bawden, and also the great Modernist exhibitions at the Whitechapel of that period, Holden's interest in the work of  Geometrical Abstractionists such as Albers and Mondrian soon began to find itself reflected in abstract paintings with a quite distinctive voice and  serenity of feeling.

To read Patrick Palmer's article on John Holden in 'Art Of England' magazine please click on the pdf below.

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Sarah trained at Chelsea and Hornsey Schools of Art, graduating in 1982 and working from the first as a landscape painter.  A commission from Arco British to go and work on a North Sea oil-rig in 1997 would seem to have had a decisive impact on the particular direction her landscape painting has taken over the last decade or so, in particular the desire to explore the few surviving pockets of 'wilderness' within the British landscape, both to make a record of them before they inevitably disappear and also to explore the nature of man's impact on them over long historical periods of time. One of her most recent projects was spent working in the Romney Marshes, "a strangely empty place - almost entirely created by man (the marsh being drained since Roman times) - which has given me a palimpsest of material to work on as it reveals its own layers of time, man and nature". At the same time she is very concious of the subtle line between the need to make a record and the need to make work which, if it is to have any worth, "must adhere to the rules and magic of paintings." (Nicholas Usherwood)

Opening hours:
Mon - Fri 9.30 - 5.30
Saturday by appointment only

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This exhibition celebrates a relatively lesser known period of the artist's activity and will be an opportunity to admire the remarkable variety of one of Britain's best loved artists in mid-career.

To view the catalogue and essay, written by David Fraser Jenkins, please see below.

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Daniella Luxembourg,one of the best-known figures in the international art market, is to hold a major exhibition of 20th-century German Art at Agnew's. Lonely Prophets will include works by many of the most significant artists from two traumatic decades in German history from just before the First World War until the beginning of the Nazi era. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Otto Dix, George Grosz and Hans Arp will all be represented as well as Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artists such as Christian Schad, Manfred Hirzel, Rudolf Schlichter and Carl Grossberg.

For further details please view our press release or visit http://luxembourg-art.com/

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6th June - 21st July

Celebrating 190 years as art dealers and 130 years on Old Bond Street

Mon - Fri: 9.30 - 5.30pm
Sat: 11 - 4pm

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Agnew's Gallery is delighted to announce a retrospective exhibition, spanning 30 years of work by the distinguished figurative artist Leonard McComb R.A. Born in Scotland in 1930 McComb trained at Manchester School of Art and Slade School of Fine Art. McComb's works in public collections include the Tate Britain, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery and the Arts Council of Great Britain.  The exhibition will concentrate on large portraits and figure studies, in addition to still lives and landscapes. Many of the works exhibited are previously unseen and together demonstrate the artist's development over the last 30 years resulting in a body of subtly understated and reflective work.

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Gadd studied at Falmouth School of Art (1st class Honours Degree) and at the Royal Academy Schools, where he won the Gold Medal for Painting and was awarded the Richard Ford Travel Scholarship. He has had three one-man shows at Agnew's in the last ten years and has shown in group exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery and the Mall Gallery, and in commercial shows in New York and Italy.

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Wonnacott has won a reputation as one of the champions of realist painting in Britain over the last twenty years. His subject matter ranges from views of the Thames estuary painted from the windows of his house to industrial complexes such as the Devonport Dockyards, and includes paintings of himself, his family and friends. His work is represented in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Norwich Castle museum, the British Council and the National Trust. The artist's most recent one man show was at Agnew's in Autumn 2005.

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