Page 52 - Studio International - December 1969

On Exhibition Elizabeth I to James I. Nearly 150 pictures Redlynch form one of the most impressive
as well as armour, manuscripts, miniatures, groups of Jacobean portraits still in existence.
drawings and other works of art have been 3 Le Ravin, 15 x 21+ in. by Maurice Grim,
assembled to recreate the visual achievement 1967 from 'Les Peintres Naifs VI' at Arthur
of the Elizabethans. A large proportion of the Tooth's from December 2 to 20. This annual
pictures have never been exhibited in this Christmas exhibition of Naif paintings will
century; most have recently been cleaned or include a section devoted to the Naif painters
specially restored for this exhibition, which of Haiti. Other artists represented will include
should be a revelation to the public of a lost Alexandrine, Boilauges, Ghiclion-Green and
age of English painting. Oliver was born at Rimbert.
Rouen in France, came to England in 4 Mobile by Alexander Calder from an exhi-
1586 and almost certainly studied under bition of his sculpture, gouaches, and litho-
Nicholas Hilliard. graphs at the London Arts Gallery until
2 Catherine Knevet, Countess of Suffolk c. 1615, December 6. Calder is a major contributor
London 1 Young Man under a Tree c. 1590, from (collection : The Countess of Suffolk and to art in the twentieth century, having been
the Royal Collection, miniature 4⅝ x 3¼ in., Berkshire) by William Larkin also influenced by such predecessors as Piet
by Isaac Oliver (1565-1617) from 'The from 'The Elizabethan Image' at the Tate Mondrian, Joan Miró and Jean Arp. This
Elizabethan Image: Painting in England Gallery. Larkin was one of the last painters work is an example of Calder's sculptural
1540 to 1620' at the Tate Gallery until to carry on the tradition of portraiture style based on geometric shapes, which
February 8,1970. This major exhibition established by Nicholas Hilliard and George developed from the 'mobile', as named by
evokes the pictorial world of the age of Gower. His series of life-size portraits from Marcel Duchamp, to the 'stabile'.