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Times
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Seeing Each Other review — Freud, Bacon, Emin and Kahlo all join the party
Looking is what artists do. But at what? At each other, endlessly, on the evidence of this new exhibition at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, which looks back over 125 years at the ways that artists working in Britain have portrayed each other. It takes a broadly chronological approach to pick out specific relationships, friendships and social circles (the Slade School, which admitted women from its founding in 1868, mid-century Cornwall, the pop art scene and the YBAs are particularly rich veins) to reveal webs of connection — some more tangled than others — and to show how artists have used portrayals of their peers and heroes to pay homage. The first image, at the entrance, is a WANTED poster. Created in 2001 by
Telegraph
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists: A victim of its own noble ambition
Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists at the progressive Pallant House Gallery aims to celebrate the relationships between artists and the artistic representation of these relationships. A simple enough concept, one would have thought. I was excited for my visit down to Chichester, enticed by the promise of many and various works – there are more than 130 works on show, including paintings by British establishment icons such as Lucian Freud, Cedric Morris, David Hockney, Paula Rego and Celia Paul. The exhibition opens with flair. Viewers are greeted by a selection of colourful figures from Lubaina Himid's 1994 installation Vernet's Studio, set against a bright lemon-yellow wall. These life-size, painted wooden cut-outs of formidable female artists from times gone by were initially exhibited as part of a 26-piece show where viewers were invited to walk among the carnival of characters and see how many they could name. Mexican surrealist Frida Kahlo, sternly gazing out beneath her bushy brow, is the most instantly recognisable of the menagerie. English op art painter Bridget Riley is more subtly represented by a contoured abstract form emblazoned with her characteristic stripes. Each of the figures in this delightful yet dysfunctional ensemble are based, in terms of pose and composition, on figures from Horace Vernet's painting The Studio (1820-1), and so Seeing Each Other opens with a neat double entendre. British artist Lubaina Himid has not only created entertaining and interrogative portraits of female artists, but she has also modelled these cut-outs on a 19th-century artist's depiction of his own studio. But dexterity and wit quickly dissipate as you enter the first room of the exhibition entitled: Artistic Bohemia, where the likes of Roger Fry, Nina Hamnett and Augustus John are both maker and muse in various works depicting the circles of London's art schools in the early 20th century. The most telling portrayal is a painting by John Currie, depicting himself and his fellow Slade students, alongside the proprietor of their favourite Soho hangout, the Petit Savoyard. Currie's Some Later Primitives and Madame Tisceron (1912) shows his cohort through the highly stylised lens of an early Renaissance fresco: one can imagine the chirrupings of mutual sycophancy that went on into the small hours at that café. But poor old Currie was no Piero della Francesca. It was in the room entitled 'Intimate Relationships' that my ability to digest the connections between the artists, sitters and styles began to flounder. Curatorship is not only about telling a story, but also about making sure that the works being used to tell that story are aesthetically cohesive and visually harmonious. Just because two people loved each other, and created art works of each other, it doesn't mean that those two works should hang next to each other on an exhibition wall. And when there are over five or six such groupings in a room, the mixture of works on show begins to feel akin to the chaos of the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. I looked around at the cacophonous hodgepodge of works on the walls and felt as though I had been abandoned at a party full of strangers, only I didn't have a drink, and everyone at the party was inanimate. The concept of this Pallant House exhibition reads very well on paper: a chance to be immersed in the great relationships between some of the brightest (and lesser known) stars of the British art establishment of the past century. However, the multitudinous diversity of works on display leaves the viewer dizzy – fewer, more impactful displays might have been better. For example, an intimate nook late in the exhibition, dedicated to the School of London, juxtaposes portraits of Lucian Freud asleep by Celia Paul, and Paul by Freud – it is one of the most vulnerable juxtapositions in the show. In these moments, the brilliance of the exhibition's curatorial vision is fully apparent. But Seeing Each Other is a victim of its own ambitious intentions. All in all, the show is, at best, good in parts.
RTÉ News
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
LS Lowry painting bought for £10 sells for more than £800,000
A rare painting by LS Lowry originally bought for £10 has sold at auction for more than £800,000. The painting, Going To The Mill, was bought by literary editor of the Manchester Guardian, Arthur Wallace, for £10 in 1926 and has been in the same family ever since. Today, the artwork sold at auction at the Mall Galleries in central London for £805,200, including buyer's premium. Lowry, who was lauded for his portrayal of everyday industrial scenes in northwest England, painted the piece in 1925. Going To The Mill is marked on the back as being £30, but Lowry let Mr Wallace have it for £10. It is believed to be one of the earliest sales made by the Stretford-born painter. He also gifted him an additional work, The Manufacturing Town, which the family sold several years ago. The artwork, which has been in the Wallace family for the last century, was recently on long-term loan to Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. Simon Hucker, modern and contemporary art specialist and head of sale, Lyon And Turnbull auction house said: "We're absolutely delighted by the price achieved for this exceptional, early painting by Lowry, bought from him when he was a virtual unknown. "There are few artists who become a household name in Britain and Lowry definitely falls into this category." Mr Hucker added: "This is a painting shows that Lowry at his conceptual best, no naive painter of 'matchstick men', as the old pop song went. "Instead he is an artist of true dexterity who is making deliberate formal choices, abstracting the figure in order to express an idea about loneliness and isolation within the teeming city. "Going To The Mill is the epitome of a 1920s Lowry, the period when he becomes a unique voice in British art. "It is especially rare is for a painting such as this to have been in one collection for one year shy of a century and we are delighted to have played a small part in its history." In 2024 a Lowry painting titled Sunday Afternoon sold for almost £6.3 million (€5.5m) at auction.
The Independent
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
LS Lowry painting originally bought for £10 sells for more than £800,000
A rare painting by LS Lowry originally bought for £10 has sold at auction for more than £800,000. The painting, Going To The Mill, was bought by literary editor of the Manchester Guardian, Arthur Wallace, for £10 in 1926 and has been in the same family ever since. On Friday the artwork sold at auction at the Mall Galleries in central London for £805,200, including buyer's premium. Lowry, who was lauded for his portrayal of everyday industrial scenes in northwest England, painted the piece in 1925. Going To The Mill is marked on the back as being £30, but Lowry let Mr Wallace have it for £10. It is believed to be one of the earliest sales made by the Stretford-born painter. He also gifted him an additional work, The Manufacturing Town, which the family sold several years ago. The artwork, which has been in the Wallace family for the last century, was recently on long-term loan to Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. Simon Hucker, modern and contemporary art specialist and head of sale, Lyon And Turnbull auction house said: 'We're absolutely delighted by the price achieved for this exceptional, early painting by Lowry, bought from him when he was a virtual unknown. 'There are few artists who become a household name in Britain and Lowry definitely falls into this category.' Mr Hucker added: 'This is a painting shows that Lowry at his conceptual best, no naive painter of 'matchstick men', as the old pop song went. 'Instead he is an artist of true dexterity who is making deliberate formal choices, abstracting the figure in order to express an idea about loneliness and isolation within the teeming city. 'Going To The Mill is the epitome of a 1920s Lowry, the period when he becomes a unique voice in British art. 'It is especially rare is for a painting such as this to have been in one collection for one year shy of a century and we are delighted to have played a small part in its history.' In 2024 a Lowry painting titled Sunday Afternoon sold for almost £6.3 million at auction.
STV News
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- STV News
LS Lowry painting originally bought for £10 sells for more than £800,000
A rare painting by LS Lowry originally bought for £10 has sold at auction for more than £800,000. The painting, Going To The Mill, was bought by literary editor of the Manchester Guardian, Arthur Wallace, for £10 in 1926 and has been in the same family ever since. On Friday the artwork sold at auction at the Mall Galleries in central London for £805,200, including buyer's premium. Lowry, who was lauded for his portrayal of everyday industrial scenes in northwest England, painted the piece in 1925. Going To The Mill is marked on the back as being £30, but Lowry let Mr Wallace have it for £10. It is believed to be one of the earliest sales made by the Stretford-born painter. He also gifted him an additional work, The Manufacturing Town, which the family sold several years ago. The artwork, which has been in the Wallace family for the last century, was recently on long-term loan to Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. Simon Hucker, modern and contemporary art specialist and head of sale, Lyon And Turnbull auction house said: 'We're absolutely delighted by the price achieved for this exceptional, early painting by Lowry, bought from him when he was a virtual unknown. 'There are few artists who become a household name in Britain and Lowry definitely falls into this category.' Mr Hucker added: 'This is a painting shows that Lowry at his conceptual best, no naive painter of 'matchstick men', as the old pop song went. 'Instead he is an artist of true dexterity who is making deliberate formal choices, abstracting the figure in order to express an idea about loneliness and isolation within the teeming city. 'Going To The Mill is the epitome of a 1920s Lowry, the period when he becomes a unique voice in British art. 'It is especially rare is for a painting such as this to have been in one collection for one year shy of a century and we are delighted to have played a small part in its history.' In 2024 a Lowry painting titled Sunday Afternoon sold for almost £6.3m at auction. Get all the latest news from around the country Follow STV News Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country
