Page 61 - Studio International - December 1967

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Funerary portrait, male head, alabaster, 7+ in. high
from Southern Arabia at Gimpel Fils, 50 South
Molton Street, W.1 until mid-January. The exhibition
of primitive art includes Anatolian, Cycladic,
Pre-Columbian gold and terracotta, African
(including Ashanti weights) and contemporary
Eskimo carvings, stone prints and coloured
drawings. (Price range: 8 gns. upwards.)
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The monastery of Simon Petra, Mt Athos, oil on
board, 17¾ x 23½ in. by Antonios Markakis in The
Spontaneous Eye, an exhibition of naïve painters at
Grosvenor, 30 Davies Street, W.1, until December 31.
The exhibition includes painters from Britain, the
Channel Islands, France, Cyprus, Greece, Mallorca,
the West Indies and the United States. (Price range:
£25-£200.)
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Bird with hooked nose, 1967, soapstone, 9 x 5 in.
by Boira at Chenil Galleries, Kings Road on
12 and 13 December. This is the first comprehensive
exhibition in England of stone sculpture from
Central Africa. It contains two or three hundred
pieces mostly by ten African artists. (Price
range: £2-£150.)
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Baghdad Mesopotamian 1967, oil on canvas, 6 x 5 ft
by Jonathan Hague at Royal Institute Galleries
from December 4 to 24. Jonathan Hague, born in
Llandudno in 1938, studied at Liverpool College of
Art and won a scholarship from the British Council
which enabled him to study in the Netherlands.
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Personage, bronze (edition of 6) by Elizabeth Frink
at Waddington, 2 Cork Street, W.1, until
December 21. Born in 1930, Elizabeth Frink has
held many one-man shows in England and has also
shown in New York and Los Angeles. Her works
have been purchased by the Tate and by the Arts
Council for the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
She has completed several public commissions
including the lectern at Coventry Cathedral, a
figure at Manchester airport and a figure of Christ
at Liverpool cathedral. (Price range: £250-£1,500.)
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Elephant and rider, mid 18th century, 10 x 10 in.
by Marwar Rajasthani in an exhibition of 17th to 19th
century Indian Miniatures at Kasmin, 118 New Bond
Street from 13 December to 6 January (Price range:
£10-£1,000.) The show covers the same ground as
the one held at Kasmin in December last year,
reviewed by Edward Lucie-Smith in the January 1967
issue of Studio International. There is currently an
Arts Council exhibition of Indian Miniatures touring
England. From December 9 to 30 it will be at the
Oldham Art Gallery, after which it will move to
Maidstone.