29th London Original Print Fair

At the Royal Academy of Arts for the 29th London Original Print Fair Young Collectors' Evening.

David Dawson: London: Wales: New York

David Dawson
London: Wales: New York
Marlborough Fine Art

David Dawson, London: Wales: New York, exhibition view

I did went to Diango Hernández's The New Man and the New Woman private view, at Marlborough Contemporary, but stopped for some moments, on the ground floor, at Marlborough Fine Art, to see David Dawson's marvelous work on London, Wales and New York.

David Dawson, N. W. Influence (oil on linen, 165.1x203.2cm), 2013

«David Dawson has been a painter for nearly thirty years. For much of this time he was the late Lucian Freud's assistant and regular model. Dawson's painting develop quietly behind the scenes of Freud's studio life - a life that quickly became fully enmeshed wit his own.» The Welsh «paintings speak of his total immersion in this landscape, physically and psychologically. His varied brushstrokes and colour relationships define the lie and character of the land with a sureness that seems felt as much as observed. For Dawson it is a 'euphoric' landscape.» (in "David Dawson London : Wales : New York", by Barnaby Wright)

David Dawson, Attack of the Zebra (oil on linen, 165.1x203.2cm), 2010

David Dawson, Fancy a Dish? (oil on linen, 165.1x203.2cm), 2013

David Dawson, London: Wales: New York, exhibition view

David Dawson, Sunburst (oil on linen, 165.1x203.2cm), 2011

R.B. Kitaj: Works on Paper

R.B. Kitaj: Works on Paper
Marlborough Fine Art

«Born in the USA, R B Kitaj studied in London at the RCA with an influential group of students including David Hockney. From 1970, his paintings, drawings and prints have concentrated on the human form. Drawing on his wide reading and preoccupation with Jewish history and identity, his works have been described as "allegorical and depictive, traditional and thoroughly modernist". His importance has been recognised by three international retrospective exhibitions organised in 1981, 1994 and 1998.»