DOROTHY MEAD 1928-1975 Re-making Michelangelo
An online exhibition of charcoal drawings inspired by the Sistine Ceiling, along with other previously unseen works from the artist's family collection.
DOROTHY MEAD 1928-1975 Re-making Michelangelo
An online exhibition of charcoal drawings inspired by the Sistine Ceiling, along with other previously unseen works from the artist's family collection.
In the stifling heat of August 1960 (the temperature is recorded at around 30°C ), in her flat at 56 St Mark's Road, a Bohemian and faintly run-down street in Notting Hill, with a copy of Goldscheiders 'Michelangelo' open at the page on the Sistine Ceiling, Dorothy arranged her model, John Hall from the flat downstairs, in the poses of the various 'Ignudi', and produced a group of dynamic and powerful and highly original charcoal drawings.
These works, from the collection of the artist's family and unseen since Dorothy's death, form the core of our exhibition, which also includes further hitherto unseen paintings and drawings from the family collection.
Waterhouse & Dodd is proud to present the our online exhibition ‘Richard Eurich – Notes on an English Summer’. Through a curated group of 25 paintings selected from the artist’s estate, we present an undeniably original recount of the rituals of the British summer by Richard Ernst Eurich OBE RA.
Richard Eurich was an artist who liked to paint and painted what he liked. His drive to paint lacked the common vanity shared by many of the painters of his time, and instead was characterised by a continuous and almost automatic desire to create. As an artist, Eurich was a gentle, pensive and internalised character, a voyeur who obsessively painted the sea but never liked to swim in it. At times he had 8 cats climbing around his studio as he quietly illustrated the faces and clouds which had passed him by earlier that day on Lepe Beach. To quote his daughter Caroline: “ My father was a quiet man – on the surface”.
Further conversations with Caroline can be accessed here, where we present an original short film developed in collaboration with the Richard Eurich Estate.
We are delighted to present a collection of rare and beautiful kinetic artworks of the early 1960s by Georges Folmer (1895-1977).
Having represented the estate of the artist for more than 16 years, this is the first time they have released for sale such a group of Folmer’s ‘roto’ works – abstract paintings and sculptures with movable parts, turned by electric motors or by the hand of the owner to create new patterns and compositions. This online exhibition represents a unique opportunity to acquire one of these rare and elegant pieces.
The works can be viewed by prior appointment at Waterhouse & Dodd, 2nd floor, 16 Savile Row, London W1S 3PL.
Jonathan Dodd
London, 2023
London
T: +44 20 7734 7800
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