THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Paintings from the late 1950s & early 1960s
3-26 FEBRUARY 2010
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Whitfield Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of early abstract paintings by 20th Century British artist Theo Mendez.
The exhibition is a reassessment of this talented artist’s early abstract work. During the 1950s he exhibited first at the Redfern Gallery in 1954; would later show his textile designs at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1956; and in the same year went on to win the Design Award at the Manchester Colour, Design & Style Centre. He studied first at Camberwell College of Arts in 1950, when the likes of Terry Frost, Howard Hodgkin, Euan Uglow, Bernard Dunstan and Gillian Ayres were all contemporaries.
Mendez returned to take up a teaching post at Camberwell in 1958, the same year as Frank Auerbach would start his time on the staff. They would be colleagues until 1965, when Auerbach left his post, and Mendez continued to teach full-time, later becoming Head of the Textile Department from 1976 until his retirement in 1984.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION
26 MAY - 23 JULY 2010
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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.
FORTHCOMING FAIR
JAN LIEVENS
Leiden 1607 - 1674 Amsterdam
An Apostle, possibly St. Peter
Oil on panel
60.8 by 45.3 cm.
Jan Lievens became a friend of Rembrandt and shared a studio with him in 1626. Lievens experimented thoroughly with studies of light in his early years in Leiden, as did Rembrandt. This painting of a young bearded man, probably St. Peter at the moment of his denial, shows us two interesting aspects; the foreshortening of the face, nearly en profile and the “clair” obscure effect to the left hand. That Lievens showed great interest in the difficulty of foreshortening is revealed in the other surviving “tronies” by his hand.
MAASTRICHT 2010
12-21 MARCH 2010 STAND 382
