Page 54 - Studio International - February 1968

On exhibition

A selection from
current and forthcoming
exhibitions

London
1
Bust of a Roman youth marble, by Jean-Antoine
Houdon (1741-1828) at Heim, 59 Jermyn Street,
St James's, S.W.1 until March 1. The exhibition,
'French painting and sculpture of the eighteenth
century', is designed to complement the show
covering the same period held at the Royal
Academy Galleries, and contains forty paintings and
fifty sculptures (including three by Houdon),
terracottas by Pajou and two marble busts by Gois.
There are portraits by Merchi, F. Dumont, Lecomte
and Vassé. The proceeds from the sale of
catalogues will go to War on Want.
2
Girl wearing a hat, with straw-coloured hair (one of
three with this title) by Gwen John at Arts Council,
4 St James's Square, S.W.1 until March 2. This is a
retrospective exhibition of paintings, gouaches and
drawings by Gwen John, the sister of Augustus
John. She studied at the Slade and in Paris, and
lived mostly in France, where she died in 1939 at
the age of 63. She was little known until a memorial
exhibition at the Matthiesen Galleries in 1946. No
works are for sale.
3
The political man 1967, oil, 28x 30 in., by Peter
Miller at Alwin, 56 Brook Street, W.1 until
February 26. The show, 'Wood-larks and war-larks'
contains paintings by Miller and sculptures by
Donn Russell. Peter Miller was born in Lancashire
in 1939 and took part in his first show, 'Northern
Young Artists', in 1961. This is his first one-man
show in London. (Price range: 15 gns-200 gns.)
4
Frogs, 40 x 13 in., by Chi Pai-Shih in the show
'Oriental Themes' at Grosvenor, 30 Davies Street,
W.1 until February 24. The show includes works by
Chang Dai-Chien, Fang Chou-Ling, Lui Show
Kwan, Long Thien Shih, Chou-Ling and Elizabeth
Dunn. (Prices: £15 upwards.)
5
Le square 1967, oil, by Jocelyne Seguin at Madden,
77 Duke Street, W.1 from February 16 until March 6.
A French painter, born in the 1910s, Jocelyne
Seguin won a prize at the Menton Biennale and a
Prix de Méditerranée. Her work is handled by the
Findlay Galleries in New York and Palm Beach, and
the Galerie de Paris in Rome. (Price range: £75—
£250.)