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4 Set design for 'Aida' (at Covent Garden, January 7 Apollo flaying Marsyas 1725, marble, by Antonio 8 Maurice Jadot at John Whibley, 22 Cork Street,
1968), watercolour, by Nicholas Georgiadis at Wright Corradini (1668-1752) in an exhibition of recent W.1 from April 2-20, to celebrate his 75th birthday.
Hepburn, 10 Halkin Arcade, Motcombe Street, S.W.1 acquisitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Born in Brussels, Maurice Jadot studied architecture
from April 3-20. Nicholas Georgiadis was born in South Kensington, S.W.7 for several months. There at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels under
1925 in Athens and trained as an architect in Athens are two marble groups by Corradini, the other Victor Horta. He has taken part in many group shows
and New York. In 1953 he came to London and began representing Zephyrus and Flora. When the palaces including the Leicestershire Education Authority
work as a painter and designer. He has designed and parks of Dresden were being embellished, in the exhibition of British sculpture at Whitechapel in
invitation cards, stage sets and costumes for Covent early eighteenth century, by Augustus the Strong, January of this year; he has also held many one-man
Garden : apart from Aida, for the Nutcracker, Romeo King of Poland, twelve pieces of garden sculpture shows in England (where he has been living for
and Juliet, and Daphnis and Chloe. He has also were commissioned from Corradini. Six of these forty years) and in Europe. This show consists of
designed for the Metropolitan, New York; Vienna sculptures disappeared from Dresden after being in- sculptures and wall panels in wood, brass, bronze
State Opera; La Scala, Milan; the Oxford Playhouse cluded in an official sale in 1836 and it is two of those and aluminium. (Price range: £100—£1,000)
and Royal Court, London. (Price range: 65 gns.- lost works which the museum has now acquired. 9 Mother and child, crayon and ink wash, 10 x 8 in.,
200 gns.) After standing unrecognized in the garden of a by Henri Gaudier- Brzeska at Mercury, 26 Cork Street,
5 Outskirts 1967, oil on board, 24 x 22 in., by country house in the North of England for several W.1 until April 6. Gaudier-Brzeska was born in 1891
Michael Simpson at Piccadilly, 16a Cork Street, W.1 generations, they were recently sold in London. They in France. He studied painting in Bristol in 1908 and
until April 12. The Piccadilly Gallery has recently were identified from the engravings executed of them in Germany, and then took up sculpture. In addition
been redecorated, and this is their first show in the in 1730. The show of new acquisitions includes a fine to brilliant animal drawings, his work ranges from
new surroundings. watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, four medieval classical to near-abstract. He died in the war at the
6 The beach at Peniche 1967, oil on canvas, 24 x 32 Japanese wood sculptures, a piece of rococo furni- age of twenty-three. This show is entirely of draw-
in., by Tristram Hillier at Arthur Tooth's, 31 Bruton ture by Pierre Langlois and a fifteenth-century ings, as was the show at Victor Waddington in 1966.
Street. W.1. embroidered chasuble.