Page 72 - Studio International - July/August 1967

On exhibition

A selection from
current and forthcoming
exhibitions

London

Russian icon of the Korsun Mother of God, 15th or
early 16th c., painted on wood panel in reds, ochre
and white with gold and silver leaf on a gesso
ground, 12 x 10¼ in., at Falcon until July 16. The
exhibition includes Byzantine, Greek and Russian
icons from the 13th to the early 18th century.
(Price range: £150—£2,500.)
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Flower Group 1943, oil on canvas, 41 x 27½ in. by
Ivon Hitchens (coll: Howard Bliss) at South London
Art Gallery, Camberwell, July 15 to August 5.
Retrospectives of Hitchens' work have been held
at Temple Newsam, Leeds; Graves Art Gallery,
Sheffield; Leicester Galleries, London, 1952;
Venice Biennale 1956; and the Tate, 1963.
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The Armourer 1931, etching, 9¼ x 11¼ in. by
Anthony Gross, painter-etcher, exhibiting etchings
until August 31 at Maltzahn. An official War Office
artist in 1941-6, Gross now teaches etching and
engraving at the Slade School. His work won
prizes at Lugano and Ljubljana, 1955. One-man shows
include the Leicester 1934 and regularly there-
after; Sagot et le Garrec, Paris, 1952; Hugo, New
York, 1953; Zwemmer, 1954. (Price range: £16—£42.)
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Totemic sculpture from Abelam people, Maprik
mountains, New Guinea, Melanesia, 62 x 12 in. at
Gallery 43 in 'Tribal Arts', sculpture from New Guinea
Africa, Asia and South America. Works made of
wood, bronze, and terracotta are on view through-
out the summer. (Price range £10—£3000.)
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Union 1967, acrylic on canvas, 85 x 98+ in. by
Jeremy Moon, exhibiting at Rowan with gallery
artists in July. Moon's recent exhibitions include
Rowan 1966; and, this year, Muller, Stuttgart;
9th Mainich: International Art Exhibition, Tokyo;
and Brighton Arts Festival. He will be represented
at the Paris Biennale this autumn.
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Sewing Shop III, 1967, terracotta, 13½ x 22 in., by
Ghisha Koenig in Grosvenor's 'New works by
artists of the gallery', July 11 to August 22. Born in
1922 in England, Ghisha Koenig studied at the
Slade and, under Henry Moore, at the Chelsea
School of Art. Her principal group exhibitions
include 'British Artist—Craftsmen', Smithsonian
Institute, Washington 1959. Included in the current
show are Azaz, Ayrton, Atamian, Clough, Evensen,
Feiler, Giardelli, Hayman, Hoffmeister, Kenett,
Skotnes and Wall. (Price range: approx. £20-£350.)
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