Page 47 - Studio International - February 1968

artists is Timothy Behrens who is now 30, I think. This February, Marlborough Fine Art is holding an
And I did feel that on the whole my sympathies exhibition entitled 'Hommage to Helen Lessore',
with contemporary art were rather exhausted. in which many of the artists previously represented
by the Beaux Arts Gallery will be showing.
You must be pleased that quite a number of them
have been taken up by the Marlborough Gallery.
I am very pleased indeed that the Marlborough
is showing some interest, though I don't know how
many it is going to take up quite definitely.
What do you feel gives you most satisfaction, look-
ing back at what your gallery did?
Well, there were of course a few older artists who
already had reputations, but still I was proud to
show their work; and with these and the younger
ones whom the gallery really launched—there's
one exception, I never had the privilege of showing Right, Helen Lessore Self-portrait II 1966
Lucien Freud; but what gives me most pleasure is oil on canvas, 10 x 8 in.
the feeling of having concentrated into a little knot
what I still feel to be the best art of its time and Below, Helen Lessore in front of a painting by
place. John Bratby. Photograph by Ida Kar