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On Exhibition 3 Hussar's Plate Armour (late seventeenth 5 Tile with a King's Image (Jan Olbracht ?),

century), hammered iron. Wings attached to multicoloured glaze 40.5 x 23.5 cm. An
the backplate. State Collection of Art in the early sixteenth-century stone tile from Wawel
Wawel, Cracow. From the Royal Academy castle, also from the exhibition at the Royal
exhibition 'A Thousand Years of Art in Academy.
Poland', showing January 3—March 1. This is 6 I am Beautiful, bronze 29½ X 15¾ X 11¾ in.,
an enormous exhibition of nearly 500 items by Rodin from the Rodin Museum, Paris.
dating from the eleventh century to the This first major Rodin exhibition in London
present day. Foreign artists working for since 1931 goes on in collaboration with the
London 1 The Elder Tree—Dieppe, oil on canvas Polish patrons are also included, notably the Rodin Museum Paris at the Hayward Gallery
16¼ x 12½ in., by Walter Sickert (1860- nephew of Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto. The from January 24 to April 5. One hundred and
1942), from a mixed exhibition of paintings, reconstruction of old Warsaw after the thirty sculptures and sixty-five drawings and
principally early twentieth-century English Second World War was based on Bellotto's watercolours will be on view.
including works by Ethel Walker and J. D. pictures.
Innes, at the New Grafton Gallery, January 4 Study for Guinness Poster, 1953, pencil drawing
1-31. Prices £15-£1000. by John Gilroy, an exhibition of whose work
2 Union, oil on wood 49+ x 55i in., by Yaacov can be seen at the Upper Grosvenor Galleries
Agam, from the exhibition 'Agam, Lifshitz from January 27—February 14. Gilroy is best
and Zaritsky: Three Israeli artists', at the known for his Guinness animal drawings, but
Whitechapel Art Gallery till January 18. this exhibition will also include portraits and
(Coll : Mr and Mrs Attali, Paris) figure studies.