Page 59 - Studio International - December1996

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Lucio Fontana's Spatial Concept-1 cut, 1959, oil on
canvas, 31 1/2 x 32 1/4 in., at McRoberts and Tunnard
December 6-31. This year Fontana was given a
retrospective at the Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis; he also won a first prize at the
Venice Biennale, and his entire exhibition there
was bought by Houston Museum, Texas. (Price
range: £500-5,000).

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Mother and Child, oil on canvas, 4 x 2 ft, by Van
Meredyth Davies, whose first London exhibition,
shared with Phyllis Mackenzie, is at the Newburgh
Gallery until December 20. Both artists were at the
Slade School of Art. Of her Mother and Child
series Van Meredyth Davies says that they were
painted in protest at the waste of human life and
the inability of women to express themselves
collectively.

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Costume for the Fonteyn-Nureyev production of
Sleeping Beauty at La Scala, Milan, by Nicholas
Georgiadis, whose designs are included in a
December show at the Wright Hepburn Gallery.
Other designers represented in the exhibition
include John Piper, Yolande Sonnabend and
Michael Annals. The Wright Hepburn Gallery,
which opened at Motcomb Street, London, S.W.1
three months ago, now represent some forty stage
designers.

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Capitol, Rome, 1965, pen and wash, 22 x 18 in. by
Adrian Daintrey, whose work is included in Part II
of the Grosvenor Gallery's Christmas exhibition of
works under £100-to December 31. The exhibition
includes work by Ayrton, Mucha, Cheret,
Brangwyn, Beardsley, Chagall, Clough, Miró,
Hamaguchi, and Kaplan.

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Vortex No. 2,1939, tempera, 18 x 24 in., in the
Drian Galleries' Cecil Stephenson memorial
exhibition-to December 23. Cecil Stephenson,
who died last year, was among the first British
abstract painters, exhibiting with the 7 and 5 Society
and the Constructivists. Concurrently Drian are
holding a retrospective of Kathleen Guthrie,
Cecil Stephenson's widow, Stephenson, who
worked at Mall Studios in Hampstead, was closely
associated in the thirties with Naum Gabo, Ben
Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Mondrian, and
Herbert Read. A double-page spread of repro-
ductions of his paintings appeared in the March
issue of Studio International, (Price range:
Stephenson-200-600 gns.; Guthrie-60-300 gns.)

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Terry Frost's Blues, June 1966, oil on canvas,
80 x 56+ in., in his third one-man show at the
Waddington Galleries-to December 23. Frost was
represented in the Whitechapel British Painting
and Sculpture exhibition in 1954 and the 1960
British Council British Painting 1720-1960
exhibition which toured the U.S.S.R. (Price range:
£75-£750.)