Leon Kossoff 1926-2019
Leon Kossoff was one of the most important figurative painters of his time and is commonly associated with a circle of School of London painters that includes Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and R.B. Kitaj.
At the centre of Kossoff's work is the human figure either in isolation or in urban or domestic settings and the subject is always intimately known, whether it be the seated studio subject or people in the streets of the city.
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Celebrating 25 Years of James Hyman Gallery
27 Oct - 20 Dec 202427th 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 St James’s and Mayfair for most of this time, the gallery has specialised in Twentieth Century British Art with a...Read more -
Modern British Art 2024
Rarities. An Online Exhibition 19 Jul - 1 Sep 2024We 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 Greaves, one of Kossoff’s largest and most powerful portrait works on paper, historically important works by Eduardo Paolozzi and Nigel...Read more -
Modern British Art
1 Sep - 23 Dec 2022Tony 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.Read more -
Modern British Art 2022
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Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century British Art
25 Mar - 25 May 2021Michael 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 installed at the famous Colony Room Club in Soho for half a century until its closure in 2008. After cleaning...Read more -
Twentieth Century British Art 2012
6 - 21 Dec 2012Artists whose work is presented include: Frank Auerbach Tony Bevan John Bratby Edward Burra Jake & Dinos Chapman Geoffrey Clarke Prunella Clough John Davies Eric Gill David Hockney Gary Hume Conrow Maddox Robert Medley Paul Noble Hughie O'Donoghue Eduardo Paolozzi Peter Phillips Walter Richard Sickert Jack Smith William Turnbull and...Read more -
Beyond the Human Clay
5 May - 18 Jun 2011In 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 of Kitaj's seminal exhibition and to celebrate a decade of exhibitions focused on Twentieth Century British figurative art at James...Read more -
Modernist Realism
The School of London from Andrews to O'Donoghue 25 Feb - 1 May 2010James Hyman Gallery is pleased to present Modernist Realism an exhibition that focuses on artists who have made London their base and are often associated with the School of London. This exhibition and the simultaneous photography show, London Calling, seek to approach the School of London afresh to suggest new...Read more -
Violence and Sensation
Francis Bacon and the Remaking of Appearance 5 Sep - 4 Oct 2008James 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 Gallery will also be presenting a series of rarely seen prints by Francis Bacon. As with Bacon, all the artists...Read more -
A Tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson
21 Nov - 1 Dec 2007James 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 the death of Colin St John Wilson in May this year and coincides with the 10th anniversary of the opening...Read more -
From Life. Radical figurative art from Sickert to Bevan
Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Bomberg, William Coldstream, Leon Kossoff, Walter Sickert, Euan Uglow 10 Sep - 18 Oct 2003A spine runs through some of the most radical figurative art in Britain of the twentieth century. Its backbone is drawing and its fibre art school teaching, yet it is the distinct personalities of each artist that provide the meat. From Walter Sickert to Tony Bevan, what impresses one most...Read more -
A Century of Drawing
Important modern British works on paper from the Camden Town School to Bridget Riley 2 Jul - 29 Aug 2003 -
Twentieth Century British Paintings and Drawings
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The Battle for Realism
9 Sep - 1 Oct 2001Exhibition including Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Henry Moore, William Scott, Stanley Spencer, Graham Sutherland. ESSAY IN THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER BY JAMES HYMANRead more -
Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Auerbach
Paintings and Selected Drawings 10 May - 22 Jun 2000The exhibition brings together paintings by four of the most important British figure painters of the last half-century, painters often associated with the so -called School of London. It also includes works on paper to demonstrate the radical ways in which these artists reinvented European painting in the face of...Read more
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Museum Quality
The Colony Room Mural and Other Important Modern British Works from James Hyman Gallery 2009Hardback, 48 pagesRead more
Publisher: James Hyman Gallery
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The Battle for Realism
Figurative Art in Britain during the Cold War 1945 - 60 James Hyman, 2001Hardback, 272 pagesRead more
ISBN: 0-300-09089-7
Dimensions: 28 x 23 cms
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British Art Fair 2022
29 Sep - 2 Oct 2022Founded in 1988, British Art Fair is the only fair dedicated to Modern and contemporary British art. Each year, fifty leading dealers exhibit paintings, drawings,...Read more -
Masterpiece 2022
Around Pop: British Pop Art and its Legacy 29 Jun - 6 Jul 2022We are pleased to present a specially curated exhibition which addresses British Pop Art and its Legacy. The presentation begins with three of the founding...Read more -
London Art Fair 2022
20 - 24 Apr 2022We are looking forward to exhibiting at the rescheduled London Art Fair in April. Our specially curated presentation will focus on important Modern British paintings...Read more
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British Art Fair 2022
29 Sep - 2 Oct 2022Founded in 1988, British Art Fair is the only fair dedicated to Modern and contemporary British art. Each year, fifty leading dealers exhibit paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures covering all...Read more -
Masterpiece 2022
Around Pop: British Pop Art and its Legacy 29 Jun - 6 Jul 2022We are pleased to present a specially curated exhibition which addresses British Pop Art and its Legacy. The presentation begins with three of the founding fathers of British Pop Art:...Read more -
London Art Fair 2022
20 - 24 Apr 2022We are looking forward to exhibiting at the rescheduled London Art Fair in April. Our specially curated presentation will focus on important Modern British paintings and works on paper. We...Read more -
Frieze Masters 2020
7 - 16 Oct 2020We are delighted to participate in Frieze Masters / Frieze Viewing Rooms, a new mobile app and web-based platform, that gives collectors the opportunity to explore and acquire art from...Read more