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Lavery and the Glasgow Boys Oct 13 - Nov 4, 2010
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The Fine Art Society will be holding a selling exhibition of works by The Glasgow Boys including works by E. A. Hornel, George Henry, Arthur Melville Joseph Crawhall and Sir John Lavery at 148 New Bond Street from 13th October to 17th November 2010. FAS was the first commercial gallery to rediscover The Glasgow Boys and have been holding exhibitions of their work since the 1960s and under the imprint Atelier Books, have published biographies on Melville, Hornel and most recently, Lavery. The exhibition coincides with the major reassessment of The Glasgow Boys at RA and the smaller exhibition at The Fleming Gallery.Amongst the first British artists to train on the Continent, principally in Paris but also at the academy in Antwerp in the 1880s, the group had international success at exhibitions in America as well as in Europe and became the standard bearers for avant garde painting in Britain with their rejection of Victorian anecdote and sentimentality and their adherence to painterly values and Whistler’s dictum of Art for Art’s Sake. Their reputation waned in the 20th century along with most British art of the late 19th century but they have been critically reassessed in the last forty years, with exhibitions by The Scottish Arts Council as well as The Fine Art Society in the 1970s bringing them back to the public’s attention. When Lavery’s painting Bridge at Grez sold at auction for £1.3m in 1998 it was one of the most expensive 19th century British paintings sold at auction and along with their successors, The Scottish Colourists, they have become the most collected of Scottish artists. Copies of Kenneth McConkey's new book John Lavery: A Painter and his World published by Atelier books will be available for sale (price £45.)
For further information please contact:
Patrick Bourne
The Fine Art Society
148 New Bond Street
W1S 2JT
+44 (0)20 7629 5116 art@faslondon.com
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