Page 58 - Studio International - December1996

On exhibition

A selection from current and forthcoming exhibitions

La Promenade, 1966, oil on canvas, 55 x 42 in., by
the Polish-born artist Kutawsky, whose first
London one-man show is at the Tama Gallery
until December 18. Since the war Kutawsky has
been working in France, and Galerie Zunini,
Paris, exhibited his oils this November. In 1957
he was given a retrospective in Warsaw. (Price
range: gouaches and oils from £25 to £250.)

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Venus and Cupid, a Flemish seventeenth-century
alabaster, 16 1/2 in. high, which is in an Obelisk
Gallery mixed show—until January 21. Included in
the show are drawings and watercolours by
Edward Smith, Dufresne, Bellmer, Matta, Ernst,
Lam and Calmes, as well as sculpture by Epstein,
Gargallo and Plazotta,

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Goose 1912-14, crayon, 14+ x 10 in., in a Victor
Waddington Gallery exhibition of drawings by
Gaudier-Brzeska—to December 17. A prominent
Vorticist and a friend of Wyndham Lewis and
Ezra Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska died in 1915 at the
age of 24. The Leicester Gallery held a memorial
exhibition in 1918, for which Ezra Pound wrote the
catalogue introduction.
Gaudier-Brzeska contributed to the first issue of
Blast (June 1914) and wrote: Sculptural feeling is
the appreciation of masses in relation. Sculptural
ability is the defining of these masses by planes.

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Zygmunt Turkiewicz's untitled fresco, 1965,
36 x 24 in., in a mixed show at the Cassel Gallery
through December. Exhibitors include Niemezyc,
Bors, Craven and Topolski. Turkiewicz lived in
Iraq, Egypt and elsewhere in the Near East (where
he was a war correspondent) before moving to
Rome and, eventially, to London. His first London
exhibition was held in 1955. (Approx. price range:
drawings from 18 gns.; sculpture from 50 gns.;
oils 35-300 gns.)