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Caravaggio’s FRIENDS & FOES
26 MAY - 23 JULY 2010
2010 is the 400th anniversary of the death of the painter Caravaggio, who died at Porto Ercole in July 1610. Whitfield Fine Art will mark this anniversary with a major exhibition, during summer of 2010, of important paintings by Caravaggio’s early Seventeenth century contemporaries and followers, with the aim of understanding him through the artists that reacted to this controversial personality.
The exhibition will feature works by Caravaggio’s good friends Prospero Orsi and Louis Finson; his great rivals Tommaso Salini and Giovanni Baglione; the painters Antiveduto Gramatica and Cavalier d’Arpino whose studios he worked in when he first arrived in Rome; and his close followers Lo Spadarino, Jusepe de Ribera, Orazio Gentileschi, Simon Vouet and others.
A major role in the show is given to the Bruges painter Louis Finson, who must have known Caravaggio in Rome, but for a longer period in Naples, where he acquired a number of works by the master - including the famous Madonna of the Rosary in Vienna and the Crucifixion of St Andrew in Cleveland. Finson is a figure of primary importance in Caravaggesque painting although his contribution has often been overlooked. The three masterpieces by Finson that will be presented in this exhibition will aim to show him in a new light and present this exact contemporary of Caravaggio as an important painter in his own right.
Fully illustrated catalogue will be available
Jo BROWN
Coastal Landscapes
OCTOBER 2010
TEFAF
MAASTRICHT 2010
12-21 MARCH 2010
STAND 382
Whitfield Fine Art will again be exhibiting at the European Fine Art Fair this year. On our stand we shall have some exceptional works including an important early Jacopo Pontormo “Madonna and Child with St John”. Recently cleaned the panel was painted in c.1517, at around the same time as the Pucci altarpiece in Florence just at the moment when Pontormo was beginning to emerge from Andrea del Sarto’s shadow as the most important painter in Florence.
Also on view will be a St Sebastian by the highly important painter Louis Finson. Finson was a direct contemporary of Caravaggio and worked alongside him in both Rome and Naples in the first decade of the 17th century. Finson owned a number of works by Caravaggio, and is one of the few Seicento artists whose Caravaggesque methods and style stems from a contemporary association to Caravaggio, rather than being a later reinterpretation of the great master.
Ilona SZALAY
THE NUDE
15 April - 14 May 2010
Whitfield Fine Art is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Ilona Szalay. The exhibition concentrates on series of works exploring the workings of the figure and of the flesh in the nude.
Ilona Szalay was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1975, she graduated in 1997 from Brasenose College, Oxford University. Later, in 2002, she was awarded an M.A (fine art) from the Byam Shaw School of Arts, now part of the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.
In 2006, she was short-listed for the Celeste Painting Prize.
Ilona’s work has exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibition including Surface-Image-Event, at the Standpoint Gallery (2009), Shadowline and They Paved Paradise, Beverley Knowles Fine Art (2007 and 2008 respectively) and the summer exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2008). Solo shows have appeared at the London Art Fair Project Space, Islington (2007), the Art Space Gallery, Dubai (2005) and the Al Riwaq Art Gallery, Manama, Bahrain (2004/05).
Claudia Carr
UNDER THE BRANCH OF AN ECHO
1-30 September 2010
FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AVAILABLE
Whitfield Fine Art is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Claudia Carr.
Carr’s current work explores the territory between ‘still life’ and ‘landscape’, between the intimate and the epic. She paints from the landscape of debris and clutter, organic material and small plastic animals that accumulate in her studio. Because of the random juxtapositions of objects, specific lighting conditions, and the process of long slow looking, the perception of scale is skewed and the spaces become ambiguous, evoking prehistoric/post apocalyptic wildernesses, wastelands, secret gardens and savannas.
A lot of the recent paintings explore the elasticity within GREY; the activation of colours within a narrow chromatic range by means of their interaction. The atmosphere of the painting, and the journeys within it, are as dependent on this kind of optical tension (and other chromatic and rhythmic structures), as they are on the illusory quality of the image itself. Each painting is also the record of a dialogue with the volatile , fickle nature of visual ‘reality’; the perceptual contradictions that exist in any long stared at scene.
Master Paintings
WEEK
3-9 JULY 2010
Following the success of the inaugural event in 2009, a second Master Paintings Week is being planned for July 2010. This event is held to coincide with the auctions of Old Master Paintings and Master Drawings London, and will encourage collectors, curators and other enthusiasts to come to London this summer.
