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Celebrating 25 Years of James Hyman Gallery
27 Oct - 20 Dec 2024 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 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 2024 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 Greaves, one of Kossoff’s largest and most powerful portrait works on paper, historically important works by Eduardo Paolozzi and Nigel... Read more -
EDWARD MIDDLEDITCH
Abstract Landscape 3 Apr - 3 May 2024 One of the leading Modern British Artists of the last fifty years, Edward Middleditch first gained prominence in the mid 1950s as a `kitchen-sink' painter, along with John Bratby, Derrick Greaves and Jack Smith. Although celebrated for their bold, matter of fact presentation of prosaic subjects that were often urban... Read more -
Robert Medley. Figuring it Out
18 Mar - 30 Apr 2024 In 1971 Bryan Robertson, the celebrated director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, wrote that Robert Medley stood alongside Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon and Edward Burra as 'one of the most gifted and independent artists of an older generation'. However, despite such powerful supporters, in his lifetime... Read more -
William Gear. Modernist
13 Feb - 7 Apr 2024 William Gear was one of Britain’s greatest abstract painters of the twentieth century. Born in Scotland, he was notable for his engagement with European Modernism and the way his work helped to internationalise contemporary British art. Gear's European travel in the 1930s had a major impact on his work, especially... Read more -
Nigel Henderson. Coronation Street Parties (1953)
Rare Vintage Photographs 25 Apr - 13 May 2023 James Hyman Gallery is pleased to present an online exhibition of early works by Nigel Henderson that depict street parties in East London at the time of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Photographed near the Henderson's home in Chisenhale Road in Bethnal Green these rare photographs -... Read more -
Modern British Art
1 Sep - 23 Dec 2022 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. Read more -
Derrick Greaves. From Shangri La to the Walled Garden
A 95th Birthday Celebration 17 Jun - 26 Aug 2022 From Shangri-La to the Walled Garden includes paintings, watercolours and collages made during the last 15 years. The climax is a group of large-scale paintings made over the last two years that are an exhilarating assertion of the extraordinary inventive energy of this major figure in British Art. James Hyman... Read more -
The Countess of Castiglione. The Creation of a Legend
10 Jun - 26 Aug 2022 This major solo exhibition includes over fifty rare portraits of the Countess from the 1850s to the 1890s. Directed and staged by the Countess, herself, and created in collaboration with the studio photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson, these “self-portraits” are some of the most extraordinary pictures in the history of photography, precursors... Read more -
Telling Stories
Picture Post and its Legacy 29 Mar - 10 Jun 2022 The exhibition presents some of the key photographers of Picture Post magazine as well as a curated selection of some later British photographers who built on this storytelling or documentary tradition. Visit The Viewing Room The exhibition includes loans as well as works for sale. VIEW WORKS Read more -
Modern British Art 2022
29 Mar - 31 May 2022 Read more -
Raymond Cauchetier: A Tribute
7 Dec 2021 - 7 Jan 2022 James Hyman Gallery is delighted to present for sale a small selection of famous images by the great French New Wave photographer Raymond Cauchetier. The gallery was proud to represent Cauchetier for many years until his death earlier this year at 100. This is an opportunity to acquire rare signed... Read more -
Peter de Francia. Disparates
A Centenary Tribute 22 Nov 2021 - 7 Jan 2022 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 as an unfashionable, even unclassifiable artist, often identified with a particular historical moment - the heavily politicised years of mid-twentieth... Read more -
Derrick Greaves. A Walk Through a Life
Recent Paintings and Collages 20 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 Something new has happened in the recent paintings and collages of Derrick Greaves. Made during an intense period of lock-down creativity during 2020 and 2021, these latest works are for the first time consciously self-referential. Three magisterial large scale canvases The Golden Tree, Early Blossom and Blossom (Two Trees) are... Read more -
Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century British Art
25 Mar - 25 May 2021 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 installed at the famous Colony Room Club in Soho for half a century until its closure in 2008. After cleaning... Read more -
Special Charity Fundraiser for The Trussell Trust
7 - 30 Dec 2020 The Trussell Trust supports a nationwide network of food banks to provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaigns for change to end the need for food banks in the UK. James Hyman, Gallery Director, said: This year we have presented a series of online fundraising... Read more -
Tony Ray-Jones. Through a Looking Glass
19 Nov - 19 Dec 2020 Tony Ray-Jones (1941-1972) remains one of the most influential and best-loved British photographers of the last half century. Although he died very young and his photographic career spanned just over a decade, Ray-Jones produced a richly diverse body of work that celebrated the melodramatic nature of the human character- synthesizing... Read more -
Shirley Baker. A Different Age
6 Jun - 24 Jul 2020 The exhibition focuses on Shirley Baker's celebrated street scenes photographed around Manchester and Salford and explores her depiction of older adults. Nan Levy, Shirley Baker's daughter, who has curated the show with James Hyman, explains: 'Having been in lockdown for the past weeks and only just being allowed out, it... Read more -
Derrick Greaves. Blossom
16 May - 16 Jul 2020 It is April 10th. Early morning. Time for our daily walk. We have been in quarantine after a family member caught the coronavirus and depressed after a young friend died of the virus. But now we are out again. Out in the garden and out on our neighbouring streets. The... Read more -
Special Fundraising Sale for the National Health Service
29 Mar - 29 May 2020 Unfortunately, NHS Hospital staff, on the front line in the treatment of patients with Covid-19, are still working without the proper PPE (personal protective equipment), and there remains a shortage of testing kits and ventilators. As everyone pulls together I have been thinking what I can do as an art... Read more -
Twentieth Century British Art
Annual exhibition of Modern British paintings, drawings and sculpture. 18 Jul - 18 Aug 2019 Read more -
Andre Kertesz - Linda McCartney
1 - 31 May 2019 Andre Kertesz was one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium and a photographer greatly admired by Linda McCartney. Famed for his modernist photographs made in Paris in the 1920s and then in New York, Kertesz's works are tightly structured meditations on life in the modern metropolis.... Read more -
Derrick Greaves. Irises, Etc.
Recent Paintings and Watercolours 8 Dec 2018 - 25 Mar 2019 Now 91 and still working in his studio each day, Derrick Greaves is one of the most important British painters of the last seventy years. Greaves initially gained acclaim in the 1950s, when he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale along with the other 'Kitchen-Sink' painters with whom he was... Read more -
Linda McCartney Platinum Prints
20 Nov 2018 - 20 May 2019 In 2007 we staged the internationally acclaimed exhibition Linda McCartney Photographs, which attracted 40,000 visitors, an unprecedented number in the gallery's 20 year history of exhibitions. Now, for the first time in a decade, a selection of these pictures is available once more for collectors to acquire. Each platinum print... Read more -
Twentieth Century British Art 2018
Annual exhibition of Modern British paintings, drawings and sculpture. 18 - 27 Jan 2018 Read more -
Eduardo Paolozzi
Plasters 15 Feb - 31 Mar 2017 Robin Spencer, the authority on Paolozzi, wrote about Paolozzi's use of plaster: ''Paolozzi's approach, like that of Picasso and the Surrealists, often involved the use of found objects. His studio was filled with plaster casts of the objects that appealed to him - dolls, toys, machine parts etc. Sometimes these... Read more -
Colin Self
Hot Dogs 20 Jan - 20 Feb 2017 Read more -
Twentieth Century British Art 2017
Annual exhibition of Modern British paintings, drawings and sculpture. 7 Jan - 18 Feb 2017 Read more -
Spotlight on Shirley Baker
A Special Presentation for Paris Photo 9 - 13 Nov 2016 This special presentation focuses on vintage silver gelatin prints from the Estate of Shirley Baker and in particualrly looks at the diversity of her depiction of children in the streets of Manchester. Read more -
Twentieth Century British Art 2016
Annual exhibition of Modern British paintings, drawings and sculpture. 18 Jun - 18 Aug 2016 Read more -
William Gear
European Modernist 11 Jun - 31 Aug 2016 The exhibition presents the fascinating early works of one of the greatest British artists of the twentieth century, William Gear (1915-97). Born in Scotland, Gear was notable for his engagement with European Modernism. At a time when much English art was conservative and inward looking, William Gear stood out for... Read more -
Thinking Big
Large Scale Photographs from the Estate of Andre Kertesz 18 May - 30 Sep 2016 After the Second World War Kertesz began increasingly to return to his earlier works to print them at an enlarged size or to print new pictures at an unprecedented scale. The exhibition begins with Kertesz famous distortions, and enlarged prints made in the 1940s. It then presents as a key... Read more -
The Human Abstract
Tony Bevan, Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Dennis Creffield, Derrick Greaves, Zhang Huan, Andre Kertesz, Henry Moore, Andy Warhol 10 Feb - 4 Mar 2016 Building on this theme, a central aspect is inspired by Honore de Balzac's great short story, The Unknown Masterpiece (1831). Rather than seeing the story as a message about abstraction, The Human Abstract, seeks to reinsert the figurative aspect. In Balzac's tale, after ten years of labour, Frenhofer unveils his... Read more -
Derrick Greaves
The Psychiatrist's Cat and Other Recent Paintings 5 Nov - 18 Dec 2015 Derrick Greaves is one of the most important painters in Britain and is extensively represented in museum and public collections. Greaves initially gained acclaim in the 1950s, when he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale along with the other 'Kitchen-Sink' painters with whom he was initially associated: John Bratby, Edward... Read more -
Dennis Creffield
Paintings of Innocence and Experience 18 Sep - 30 Oct 2015 Dennis Creffield. Paintings of Innocence and Experience presents paintings spanning seven decades to trace the range of the artist's work from the 1940s, and his days in the classes of David Bomberg at the Borough Polytechnic, through to more recent paintings. This is a major opportunity to explore the diversity... Read more -
Twentieth Century British Art 2015
26 Jul - 26 Aug 2015 Read more -
Raymond Cauchetier's New Wave
17 Jun - 14 Aug 2015 One of the most influential and innovative film-set photographers of his day, Cauchetier - who still lives in the same Paris apartment in which he was born in 1920 - was for many years the unacknowledged genius behind some of the most iconic images of 1960s French cinema. Following a... Read more -
Spitting
Photographs by Andrew Bruce and Anna Fox 22 - 8 May 2015 One of the most popular television programmes of the 1980s and 1990s, watched by an audience of 15 million people at its peak, Spitting Image was a British satirical show featuring puppet caricatures of prominent celebrities of the time, including international politicians and the British Royal Family, among others. The... Read more -
Andre Kertesz in Europe
13 May - 13 Jun 2015 The exhibition - the first of its kind to focus on Kertesz's European work along - spans the photographer's whole career and features well-known images as well as several unknown photographs which have never before been exhibited or published. Born in Hungary in 1894, Kertesz was one of the most... Read more -
Edward Middleditch
The Pencil of Nature 7 - 30 Jan 2015 Focused on the artist's meticulous later works, the exhibition explores his painstaking and obsessive observation of nature. At the heart of the exhibition are meticulous drawings of fields of crops in which each leaf and stem is precisely detailed and delineated. Edward Middleditch established himself in the mid 1950s as... Read more -
Andy Sewell
'Something Like a Nest' 25 Sep - 6 Nov 2014 Read more -
The Male Gaze
Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert, Homer Sykes and Keith Vaughan 21 May - 7 Jul 2014 The artists include: Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert, Homer Sykes, and Keith Vaughan. Read more -
Ken Grant
No Pain Whatsoever 4 - 18 Mar 2014 'No Pain Whatsoever' draws from Grant's long term project photographing his contemporaries in the city of Liverpool, where he was born in 1967. Where earlier series have focused on the intimacy of the interior, Grant uses exteriors as a starting point for this latest body of work, and explores the... Read more -
Jon Tonks. Empire
4 - 18 Mar 2014 'Empire' follows his journey across the South Atlantic, exploring life on four remote islands - the British Overseas Territories of Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha, the Falkland Islands and St. Helena - relics of the once formidable British Empire, all intertwined through their shared history. The book, 'Empire', was released... Read more -
Twentieth Century British Art 2014
7 Jan - 28 Feb 2014 Read more -
Twentieth Century British Art 2013
3 - 21 Dec 2013 Read more -
Another Country
Vintage Photographs of British Life by Tony Ray-Jones 11 Sep - 7 Nov 2013 Tony Ray-Jones had a short life. He died in 1972 aged just thirty. But the pictures that he left behind are some of the most powerful British photographs of the twentieth century. His work of the late 1960s and early 1970s documents English culture and identity and brilliantly captures this... Read more -
Country Matters
British Photographs by Bert Hardy, Roger Mayne, Tony Ray-Jones, Colin Jones, Chris Killip, Homer Sykes, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Martin Parr, Mark Power, Anna Fox, Ken Grant 11 Sep - 7 Nov 2013 The exhibition explores constructions of Englishness, from eccentric to conformist, aristocrat to working class, northern and southern, black and white, old and young, work and leisure, rural and urban. Covering a spectrum from playful and quirky to dark and serious, from compassionate and empathic to detached and even satirical, these... Read more -
Derrick Greaves
All Blues 7 Jun - 5 Jul 2013 Last summer we staged an exhibition of recent paintings entitled Derrick Greaves. Milestones that celebrated the artist's 85th birthday and we are delighted once more to be marking Derrick Greaves's birthday in June with a vibrant new exhibition. In the decade since our first exhibition of Derrick Greaves, he has... Read more -
Walls and Bridges. Edouard Baldus
A Bicentenary Exhibition 4 - 7 Apr 2013 Coinciding with an exhibition of important 19th and 20th Century Vintage work at AIPAD, James Hyman will present a retrospective overview of Baldus's remarkable achievements. The works range from Baldus's earliest known photographs from c.1849 to his magnificent albums depicting the building of the new Louvre, as well as works... Read more -
Twentieth Century British Art 2012
6 - 21 Dec 2012 Artists 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 -
Gustave Le Gray and his Circle
11 - 14 Oct 2012 Gustave le Gray was one of the most technically accomplished of all early photographers, even writing treatises on how best to perfect the earliest chemical processes. But as this exhibition demonstrates, and Le Gray himself emphasised, photography was not just about scientific advance but also the creation of a new... Read more -
Metamorphoses and the Art of Love
27 Jun - 5 Jul 2012 Ovid's Metamorphoses addresses the theme of transformation, most often of human beings into other natural forms. The exhibition includes key works that explore this theme. A centre piece is provided by one of Ivon Hitchens greatest and largest paintings, The Fountain of Acis. Inspired by the nymph Acis's transformation into... Read more -
Derrick Greaves
Milestones 30 May - 22 Jun 2012 James Hyman writes: I am honoured to present our seventh solo exhibition of work by Derrick Greaves. The exhibition is a special one for many reasons. Most importantly, it coincides with the artist's 85th Birthday on 5th June and the new paintings on show are an appropriately joyful celebration of... Read more -
From Sermons in Stones to Monsters of Modernity
9 - 26 May 2012 The exhibition title references the religious significance of the portal programmes of Gothic cathedrals with their multiple biblical scenes as well as the gargoyles of Notre Dame that were the mid-nineteenth century invention of Viollet-le-Duc. The exhibition traces the ways in which the great Gothic churches and cathedrals of France... Read more -
Peter de Francia. An Intimate View
15 Mar - 5 May 2012 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 Francia also celebrates moments of warmth and affection. Though he is often associated with, and acclaimed for, his biting socio-political... Read more -
From Ivon Hitchens to the Kitchen-Sink. Re-examining the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1956)
26 Jan - 10 Mar 2012 The British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 1956 is today chiefly remembered for its presentation of the kitchen-sink painters - John Bratby, Derrick Greaves, Edward Middleditch and Jack Smith. Certainly, it was a high point in their careers, but the Pavilion also included a gallery of paintings by Ivon... Read more -
Basil Beattie. Onward and Upward
Twenty Five Years of Work (1986-2011) 16 Nov 2011 - 21 Jan 2012 Building from his early engagement with Abstract Expressionism, in recent decades Beattie has increasingly adopted a system of pictographic signs; doorways, stairways, archways, ziggurats, corners and long tunnels. Despite their allusions to architectural spaces, Beattie sees these forms more as references to psychological states. Any illusion of space is also... Read more -
Anna Fox. Resort
12 Oct - 12 Nov 2011 Produced over a two year period, the series captures the many facets of the modern holiday experience. Specifically focusing on the Bognor Regis resort, Fox has created a group of large format, hyper-real contemporary colour images which navigate the resort's geography of leisure in all its lurid allure. Super-saturated colours... Read more -
Lynne Cohen. There's Always Something
12 Oct - 12 Nov 2011 Cohen has consistently explored the mystery of unoccupied space and place. She does not locate or contextualize her photographs, but instead uses the power of ambiguity and absence to question what can and can not be represented in the absence of the human form. The void within these interiors rebounds... Read more -
Dennis Creffield. Jerusalem
7 Sep - 9 Oct 2011 In the extensively illustrated publication that accompanies the exhibition, James Hyman explains the origins of these pictures: 'In May 2007, I paid a visit to Dennis Creffield's studio in Brighton and as we talked over lunch the idea for an exhibition grew. I proposed a commission based on Jerusalem/William Blake... Read more -
Picasso. At Work and Play
24 Jun - 26 Aug 2011 The exhibition explores Picasso's private and public worlds, from the intense concentration of the studio to the release offered by friends. A select presentation of works span the artist's whole career, from his charming early Blue and Rose period etchings of circus performers to his highly charged last works, which... Read more -
Flatworld
Recent Prints and Drawings by Derrick Greaves 24 Jun - 26 Aug 2011 Following a series of acclaimed exhibitions of paintings by Derrick Greaves at James Hyman Fine Art, this is the first time the gallery has presented an exhibition comprising solely of works on paper to highlight the foundation of the artist's practice. Flatworld presents a selection of recent prints and drawings... Read more -
Beyond the Human Clay
5 May - 18 Jun 2011 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 of Kitaj's seminal exhibition and to celebrate a decade of exhibitions focused on Twentieth Century British figurative art at James... Read more -
From Talbot to Fox
150 Years of British Social Photography 16 - 20 Mar 2011 In order to build on this earlier New York exhibition, James Hyman Photography's AIPAD exhibition From Talbot to Fox broadens the range of photographers shown in order to provide a wider historical and geographical context. Starting with the earliest photographers the exhibition explores the importance of class and identifies themes... Read more -
Shai Kremer. Fallen Empires
10 Mar - 23 Apr 2011 James Hyman Photography is delighted to premier the newest series of internationally acclaimed photographer Shai Kremer entitled Fallen Empires. Kremer completed his previous series Infected Landscape over a seven year period that followed his MFA from the New York School of Visual Art. Over one hundred images document the many... Read more -
Exposure 2011
Jim Cooke, Anna Fox, Stuart Griffiths, Clarita Lulic, Regine Petersen & Vanessa Winship 10 Mar - 23 Apr 2011 Selected from more than 200 applicants, these six artists were judged to reflect the significant range and diversity of photographic practice visible in the UK today. The 2010 awardees whose work will be exhibited at James Hyman Photography are: Jim Cooke, who will receive funding to complete his series showing... Read more -
Ben Spiers. Seamless
10 Feb - 5 Mar 2011 Ben Spiers's hyper-realist paintings are fictions based on combining a sophisticated array of Western and non-Western sources: a Japanese woodcut, Roman portrait bust or the pages of Vogue may all inform his re-imagined portraits. The paintings of Ben Spiers inhabit a world in which the smooth aesthetic of Photoshop replaces... Read more -
Mundane Monumental
The Everyday in Modern British Sculpture 10 Feb - 5 Mar 2011 Highlights include: A major wall piece by The Boyle Family, Study for the Fire Series with Blackened Sandstone (1989). This work is at once the most elaborate, meticulous and monumental and yet at the same time could hardly be more banal in its recreation of carefully pinpointed locales. One of... Read more -
Peter de Francia Paintings
A 90th Birthday Retrospective 6 Jan - 5 Feb 2011 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 House in 2007-08, and his drawing retrospective, Modern Myths, which toured the United States in 2008. The inclusion in 2008... Read more -
Colin Self. One Thousand Sketches
12 Nov - 18 Dec 2010 One of Britain's greatest Pop artists, Colin Self is especially acclaimed for his drawings, as Richard Hamilton's praise makes clear: 'He's the best draughtsman in England since William Blake; he uses the pencil in such an individual way.' (Richard Hamilton). Widely respected by his peers (among them Michael Andrews, Frank... Read more -
Lewis Chamberlain. The Winter Visitor and Other Recent Drawings
6 Nov - 18 Dec 2010 Read more -
La Nouvelle Vague
Iconic New Wave Photographs by Raymond Cauchetier 14 Jul - 3 Sep 2010 Staged on the 50th anniversary of Jean Luc Godard's A Bout de Souffle (1960),this exhibition presents photographs capturing the essence of the French Nouvelle Vague movement, many of which are being exhibited for the first time. Coinciding with Raymond Cauchetier's 90th Birthday, this year, these iconic photographs are available for... Read more -
Derrick Greaves. Nightingale and Other Recent Pictures
11 Jun - 10 Jul 2010 The exhibition takes as its starting point a suite of new prints on the subject of the nightingale. Vibrant studies of the song bird and of nature, these pictures address recurring motifs in the natural world. The paintings in this exhibition point in new directions and reveal the ways in... Read more -
Michael Andrews. The Artist at Work
5 May - 5 Jun 2010 When the great School of London painter Michael Andrews died fifteen years ago, he left behind fewer than two hundred paintings, but a rich archive of accompanying material: hundreds of pages of notes, a wealth of photographs and magazine cuttings, numerous works on paper from his formative early years in... Read more -
Rediscoveries. Modern British Drawings
5 May - 5 Jun 2010 Read more -
London Calling
Anna Fox, Stephen Gill, Nigel Shafran 25 Feb - 1 May 2010 London Calling explores the way that Anna Fox, Stephen Gill and Nigel Shafran have taken the capital city as their home and subject matter. It suggests a specificity in their responses to London, whether it be the grey of London light or a type of gritty urban realism particular to... Read more -
Modernist Realism
The School of London from Andrews to O'Donoghue 25 Feb - 1 May 2010 James 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 -
Elinor Carucci. Intimacy
7 Jan - 20 Feb 2010 Originally from Israel, Carucci moved to New York in the mid 1990s and has been documenting elements of life in her adopted city as well as with her family in Israel. Continuing in the long lineage of artists who have taken their family into focus, from Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward... Read more -
Exposure 2010
David Birkin, Jonathan Foulger, Tess Hurrell, Jo Longhurst, Indre Serpytyte 7 Jan - 20 Feb 2010 Selected from more than 200 applicants, these five artists were judged to reflect the significant range and diversity of photographic practice visible in the UK today. Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs at the Museum said: It was a real pleasure to see a consistently high standard of creative photography alongside... Read more -
Michael Andrews. Selected Watercolours and Drawings from the Artist's Estate
1 - 22 Dec 2009 Read more -
Construct
Lynne Cohen, Karen Knorr, Mayumi Terada 26 Nov - 22 Dec 2009 Construct brings together works of Lynne Cohen, Karen Knorr and Mayumi Terada, three contemporary artists engaged with visual enquiry into domestic space. 'Construct', the noun, relates to a complex idea formed from a number of simpler elements. In this way, each of these three artists presents a view into spaces... Read more -
Tony Bevan. Construct
26 Nov - 22 Dec 2009 From Bevan's earliest days, interiors have coexisted with portraits and figures, and his work has increasingly divided into interiors with corridors, rafters and studio furniture amd figures and portraits. The fluidity of Bevan's pictorial language allows the artist to create a fascinating interplay betwen these bodies of work. Heads are... Read more -
Hughie O'Donoghue. Pharos
8 Oct - 21 Nov 2009 A handful of small black and white photographs taken by a soldier on leave in Alexandria and Cairo sometime between November 1943 and February 1944 and an artist's photographic diary of seemingly prosaic buildings taken in Ireland in recent years are the two principal sources that inform Hughie O'Donoghue's new... Read more -
Eduardo Paolozzi. Forty Plasters
14 Sep - 30 Oct 2009 From the beginning James Hyman Gallery has presented Twentieth Century British Art as well as International Contemporary art works, specialising in sculpture as well as painting. James Hyman Gallery's first major exhibition, Henry Moore and the Geometry of Fear in 2002, did more than any other exhibition to turn the... Read more -
Museum Quality
The Colony Room Mural and Other Important Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 10 Jun - 22 Aug 2009 In celebration we have made a selection of acknowledged masterpieces and little-known rarities from the Modern British inventory of James Hyman Fine Art. We will be exhibiting for the first time, an icon of British cultural history, Michael Andrews's huge canvas, The Colony Room Mural (1958), which was installed at... Read more -
Laura Letinsky. Likeness
30 Apr - 30 May 2009 Laura Letinsky - Likeness brings together twenty of Letinsky's most recent elegiac photographs of detritus on a table-top, which are both elegantly prosaic and art historically resonant in their reference to Dutch vanitas still life painting of the Seventeenth Century. This dialogue with painting is an important aspect. As the... Read more -
Lewis Chamberlain. The Hiding Place
30 Apr - 30 May 2009 Read more -
Peter de Francia. Art World Drawings
12 Mar - 25 Apr 2009 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 The Bombing of Sakiet (1959), and famed for his powers as a draftsman, exemplified by his Disparates drawings. However, de... Read more -
Water Water Everywhere
12 Mar - 25 Apr 2009 Read more -
William Townsend Centenary
Selected Paintings from the Artist's Estate 20 Feb 2009 Read more -
Bridget Riley. Selected Prints
29 Jan - 7 Mar 2009 Read more -
Lucian Freud. Works on Paper
29 Jan - 7 Mar 2009 Read more -
Garry Fabian Miller. Time Passage
20 Nov 2008 - 24 Jan 2009 The exhibition: Garry Fabian Miller. Time Passage presents for the first time since the 1970s, vintage prints of Fabian Miller's famous Sea Horizon series, including photographs never previously exhibited or reproduced. Also included are plant studies, such as the multi-part work Honesty, made in 1985 when the artist gave up... Read more -
Francis Bacon. Prints
5 Sep - 4 Oct 2008 Read more -
Violence and Sensation
Francis Bacon and the Remaking of Appearance 5 Sep - 4 Oct 2008 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 Gallery will also be presenting a series of rarely seen prints by Francis Bacon. As with Bacon, all the artists... Read more -
Childish Things
Andrews, Baselitz, Brassai, Chamberlain, Kertesz, Moore, Rego, Weston 24 Jul - 30 Aug 2008 The exhibition begins with images of innocence. Photographs of children by Andre Kertesz and Edward Weston suggest an age of innocent friendships. Meanwhile Henry Moore's depiction of a mother and child draws from centuries of idealised images of maternity. But such a views are literally upturned in Georg Baselitz's depiction... Read more -
Derrick Greaves. White Ground and Other Recent Paintings
24 Jul - 30 Aug 2008 White Ground and Other Recent Paintings present Derrick Greaves's most recent paintings and reveals the development of his imagery, from paintings based on nature and observable fact to more studio-bound imaginative constructs. These latest paintings provide an insight into the evolution of Greaves's work since the publication of a major... Read more -
Linda McCartney. Photographs
25 Apr - 19 Jun 2008 Paul McCartney says: An exhibition presenting the range of Linda's photographic work is long overdue, so I'm obviously pleased that this show is happening. James Hyman, my daughter Mary, and I have worked on it now for three years, and the result is a sensitive selection of works that really... Read more -
Hughie O'Donoghue. The Geometry of Paths
7 Mar - 19 Apr 2008 The painter Van Gogh on the road to Tarascon and a RAF Navigator on route to bomb the city of Cologne in 1944, these two seemingly unrelated and disparate events become connected in Hughie O'Donoghue's new exhibition The Geometry of Paths. A major new painting, The Yellow Man, re imagines... Read more -
Alan Davie. The Shaman's Enigma
24 Jan - 1 Mar 2008 One of the leading British Modern Artists, Alan Davie, now in his eighty-eighth year, initially gained his reputation as one of the most important European Abstract Expressionists, a counterpart to Jackson Pollock in America. What both shared was an interest in Jungian archetypes as well as a belief in the... Read more -
Edward Middleditch. Sea and Sky
23 Jan - 1 Mar 2008 One of the leading Modern British Artists of the last fifty years, Edward Middleditch first gained prominence in the mid 1950s as a `kitchen-sink' painter, along with John Bratby, Derrick Greaves and Jack Smith. Although celebrated for their bold, matter of fact presentation of prosaic subjects that were often urban... Read more -
Then and Now
Bevan, Johnson, O'Donoghue 7 Dec - 19 Jan 2007 Entitled Then and Now, the exhibition contrasts new works completed in the last few months, with major earlier pieces to emphasise the centrality of working on paper to these artists' practice and their evolving approach to the medium. Demonstrating radical and vastly different approaches to working on paper, each artist... Read more -
A Tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson
21 Nov - 1 Dec 2007 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 the death of Colin St John Wilson in May this year and coincides with the 10th anniversary of the opening... Read more -
Dennis Creffield. Body and Soul
2 Nov - 1 Dec 2007 These drawings not only confirm Creffield's stature as one of the greatest draftsmen at work today but also capture the essence of what he does. Linking these two bodies of work and informing this vision is a sense of shared structures and of connectedness that acknowledges, in William Blake's words,... Read more -
Lewis Chamberlain. Things That Go
19 Sep - 27 Oct 2007 Read more -
The Flower of Life
19 Sep - 27 Oct 2007 In celebration of the opening of the new gallery, James Hyman is proud to present a specially curated exhibition of important artworks that explore the relationship between Art, Love and Nature. Appropriately, for this first exhibition, the theme is transformation, specifically the transforming power of love as an inspiration for... Read more -
Derrick Greaves From Kitchen Sink to Shangri-La
1 - 22 Jun 2007 Part I Derrick Greaves The Early Work 1945 -1965 Including major oil paintings, as well as drawings, from the artist's celebrated 'kitchen-sink' period. In addition to works loaned from Private Collections, a number of pictures will be for sale. Part II Derrick Greaves The Middle Years 1965 - 1985 Including... Read more -
Robert Medley. After the Old Masters
26 Apr - 25 May 2007 The exhibition will include important loans from Private Collections as well as works for sale from the Estate of the Artist. Throughout his life Robert Medley developed his imagery by building on what he learnt from studying the art of the past. As a young man, visiting the Louvre was... Read more -
Glenys Johnson. A City Distilled
8 Mar - 20 Apr 2007 Glenys Johnson begins her London paintings by selecting a viewpoint of the City from which to take photographs. Photographs taken from the upper floors of Guy's hospital are the starting point for subtle paintings in which a specific city becomes a universal emblem for the contemporary metropolis. As Suzanne Hall... Read more -
Home and Away
Michael Andrews, Peter de Francia, Derrick Greaves, Robert Medley, Edward Middleditch, William Townsend, Arnold van Praag 12 Dec 2006 - 19 Jan 2007 Read more -
Edward Middleditch. Water and Light
20 Sep - 3 Nov 2006 In Edward Middleditch's Summer Landscape (1969) and its companion Garden Landscape (1969) a rhythmic row of trees stretches endlessly across the picture plane and a series of flowers expands before our gaze. The effect is at once highly ordered, exquisitely patterned and serenely classical. It is also highly decorative and... Read more -
Building Sites
Auerbach, Bevan, Chamberlain, Johnson 2 Aug - 15 Sep 2006 Frank Auerbach's depiction of a London building site consists of mounds of paint that are an equivalent to the earth itself. The scaffolding provides a powerful structure but man and machine are subsumed by the sheer mess of the excavation and the scale of the construction. Building work may come... Read more -
Peter de Francia. Portraits
27 Jun - 28 Jul 2006 One of the most important realist artists of the last half century, de Francia's portraits, mainly produced in the 1950s and 1960s, testify to the fertile intellectual and cultural milieu of the period. Presenting a wide range of sitters including writers, critics, artists and musicians, as well as leading academics,... Read more -
Portraits
11 May - 23 Jun 2006 Portraiture has been a central concern for many of the greatest British artists of the last half century. Inspired by Francis Bacon and encouraged by contemporaries such as William Coldstream, Head of the Slade School from 1949, and Rodrigo Moynihan, Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art from... Read more -
Pop Classical
Derrick Greaves Paintings from the 1970s 29 Mar - 28 Apr 2006 'They all avoid the handmade look, the expressive brushstroke. They all compose with thickish painted lines, which both delineate forms and strike up a strong rhythmIn the too little known recent work of Derrick Greaves the line is often a pale one, dividing two darker areas like the swap of... Read more -
Robert Medley. A Centenary Tribute
3 Nov 2005 - 27 Jan 2006 However, despite powerful supporters, in his lifetime Medley was diffident about fame and since his death a decade ago his work has tended to fall from view. This makes the present exhibition an opportune chance to reassess a major artist. Marking the centenary of the birth of Robert Medley who... Read more -
Arnold Van Praag: From London
28 Sep - 28 Oct 2005 A student at the Slade School of Art from 1953-57 van Praag was one of an extraordinary generation of alumni that included Michael Andrews, Victor Willing, Euan Uglow and Craigie Aitchison. Unlike them, however, van Praag's diffidence and increasing withdrawal from London has meant that whilst attracting powerful admirers his... Read more -
Fifty Years of British Landscape Painting
4 Aug - 23 Sep 2005 Works by eight artists provide highly personal and distinctly different responses to the British landscape. The exhibition travels to all corners of the British Isles - north, east, south and west - from Andrews in Scotland, Greaves in Norfolk, Auerbach in London, Hitchens in Sussex, Hilton and Frost in Cornwall... Read more -
Michael Andrews Landscapes
6 Jun - 29 Jul 2005 Many of these works have not previously been exhibited. Michael Andrews (1929 -95), who died ten years ago this July, was one of the greatest British painters of the twentieth century. He was also one of the least prolific artists, making this exhibition a rare opportunity to see works,... Read more -
Edward Burra. Real and Surreal
28 Apr - 27 May 2005 Several of the works will be exhibited for the first time and suggest not only Burra's range but also his international standing. One of the most individual of twentieth century British artists, Burra was also one of the most widely traveled, producing work that was both highly idiosyncratic and engaged... Read more -
Peter de Francia. After the Bombing
11 Mar - 15 Apr 2005 Read more -
Derrick Greaves. The Pleasures of Drawing
28 Jan - 4 Mar 2005 One of the leading British Figurative Artists of the last fifty years, Derrick Greaves first gained acclaim in the mid 1950s as a `kitchen-sink' painter, along with John Bratby, Edward Middleditch and Jack Smith, whose work was celebrated for its bold, matter of fact presentation of prosaic subjects drawn from... Read more -
William Turnbull. Heads and Figures. 1953-56
23 Sep - 12 Nov 2004 PRESS RELEASE William Turnbull. Heads and Figures. 1953-56 23 September – 12 November 2004 'To develop one's own language you have to go back to the essentials, start with something elementary such as line, then look at space, then at volume. Start from the material, then go to the image,... Read more -
The Challenge of Post War Painting
3 Jun - 4 Sep 2004 Continuing our ongoing series of curated exhibitions devoted to the greatest British artists of the twentieth century, James Hyman Gallery are delighted to be holding a major exhibition addressing one of the most exciting periods in twentieth century British art history, the dynamic years of change after the Second World... Read more -
Bert Hardy. The Elephant and the Castle
Vintage Photographs of London Life in the 1940s 16 Apr - 29 May 2004 Following recent exhibitions of paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints by Britain's leading artists of the twentieth century, James Hyman Gallery is pleased to present a very rare group of vintage photographs by one of Britain's most important photographers, Bert Hardy. As chief photographer for Picture Post magazine in the 1940s... Read more -
Lewis Chamberlain. Recent Paintings and Drawings
26 Feb - 10 Apr 2004 Read more -
Multiple Selves
Philip Akkerman, Tony Bevan, Dryden Goodwin, Peter Harris 28 Jan - 21 Feb 2004 By exploring these artists' use of multiple self-portraits this exhibition goes beyond the idea that a single self-portrait reveals the whole self. Instead, multiple selves are revealed as we move from one self-portrait to the next. In Philip Akkerman's life-long project to paint only himself, the artifice is explicit as... Read more -
Sacred and Profane
Edward Burra, Cecil Collins, Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill 5 Dec 2003 - 1 Jan 2004 At the heart of the show is Cecil Collins' powerful early masterpiece, God has flown from this World - an apocalyptic scene in which fires burn across the world - that suggests the legacy of the visionary epics of William Blake. Complementing this dramatic vision of the future is Edward... Read more -
Alan Davie. Recent Paintings and Gouaches
22 Oct - 11 Nov 2003 Now in his eighty-forth year, Davie continues to produce paintings of startling originality, vitality and daring. Combining imagery derived from different world cultures with a love of music and language, Davie's paintings are a complex yet joyous celebration of creativity that combine the expressive freedom of abstraction with a wealth... 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 2003 A 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 Read more -
Peter Doig. Painter as Printmaker
14 May - 15 Jun 2003 In Peter Doig: painter as printmaker James Hyman Gallery presents over fifty prints by Peter Doig in a variety of media to reveal the consistency and extent of the artist's activities as a printmaker. The exhibition ranges from relatively straightforward etchings to complex prints that combine printmaking techniques including hard... Read more -
Derrick Greaves
Paintings and Drawings. 1952-2002 12 Mar - 9 May 2003 Derrick Greaves first gained acclaim in the mid 1950s as a `kitchen-sink' painter, whose work was celebrated for its bold, matter of fact presentation of prosaic subjects drawn from the external world. In the years since then, the artist has also increasingly drawn inspiration from dreams and the unconscious to... Read more -
Edward Burra
Stage and Cabaret 21 Jan - 7 Mar 2003 The exhibition focuses on some of Burra's favourite subjects: the cabaret, music-hall and stage. It includes not only drawings made in England but also works made on the artist's extensive world travels. The exhibition includes a series of little known stage and costume designs for Bizet's Carmen, which Burra made... Read more -
Henry Moore and the Geometry of Fear
Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Bernard Meadows, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull 11 Nov 2002 - 1 Jan 2003 Exactly fifty years ago this year the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presented a major exhibition entitled New Aspects of British Sculpture. Outside the pavilion the visitor was greeted with major works by Henry Moore and Reg Butler and inside there was a dramatic installation of the leading young... Read more -
Tony Bevan. The Complete Prints
Drypoints, etchings, woodcuts 1 Oct - 11 Nov 2002 The exhibition extends from Bevan's first etchings to a recently completed drypoint of a head. Tony Bevan's prints have always had a close relationship to his paintings and drawings but remain little known. They not only provide a powerful and accessible summary of Tony Bevan's concerns but have also played... Read more -
Twentieth Century British Paintings and Drawings
1 Aug - 27 Sep 2002 Read more -
The Battle for Realism
9 Sep - 1 Oct 2001 Exhibition including Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Henry Moore, William Scott, Stanley Spencer, Graham Sutherland. ESSAY IN THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER BY JAMES HYMAN Read more -
Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Auerbach
Paintings and Selected Drawings 10 May - 22 Jun 2000 The 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
