Peter De Francia 1921-2012

27th October 2024 marks twenty five years since the founding of James Hyman Fine Art in 1999. To mark this anniversary we are staging a special online exhibition. Based in...

We are pleased to present this summer selection of 20th Century British works. The focus is on rarities. These include previously unrecorded photographs by John Deakin, a rare 1960s Derrick...

Tony Bevan, Prunella Clough, John Davies, Derrick Greaves, Nigel Henderson, Leon Kossoff, Edward Middleditch, Peter Phillips, Paula Rego, Walter Richard Sickert, Jack Smith and Aubrey Williams.

In a fascinating essay and interview in the catalogue for Peter de Francia's 2006 solo exhibition at Tate Britain, Philip Dodd writes of 'the problem' of Peter de Francia's status...

Michael Andrews Colony Room Mural is an icon of British cultural history by one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century. Painted on canvas, this picture was...

What unites many decades of drawing and painting is de Francia's fascination with people and the connections between them. This may often focus on power and its abuse, but de...

In 1976 the great figurative painter and polemicist R.B. Kitaj organized a group exhibition for the Arts Council of Great Britain entitled The Human Clay. To mark the 35th anniversary...

This is the first large-scale exhibition of de Francia's work since his solo show at Tate Britain in 2006; The Ship of Fools: Peter de Francia in Focus at Pallant...

Peter de Francia is widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful voices in British art of the last half century, acclaimed for political works such as his celebrated painting...

James Hyman says: As this exhibition demonstrates, Bacon's legacy was not stylistic so much as conceptual: an encouragement to take risks, an art of extremes, a heightened sense of mortality.Hyman...

James Hyman is proud to present a personal tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson, one of Britain's greatest architects and art collectors of the last half-century. The exhibition follows...