London Art Week Summer 2023 – Friday 30 June to Friday 7 July The UK’s leading fine arts selling event is held both in galleries around central London and as exhibitions online. This summer it features 53 participants, all internationally-acknowledged specialists in their chosen fields. Expert dealers offer museum-quality examples of decorative arts, paintings, sculpture, and works on paper of all periods from antiquity to contemporary, as well as - for the first time this year - rare books, maps and manuscripts. The week coincides with the summer series of Old Master and Classic auctions held by Christie’s, Bonhams and Sotheby’s.

London Art Week provides a happy art-filled opportunity to explore the city’s major gallery areas such as St. James’s, Mayfair and South Kensington, whilst browsing, admiring and learning about works of all periods from antiquity to the present day. All works on show are for sale. Soak up the unique flavour of each locality and individual gallery, whilst enjoying unparalelled access to view works of museum calibre as well as entry-level examples and rediscovered masters.

Major exhibitions to seek out: A remarkable group of five works by the legendary renaissance sculptor Giambologna, for sale as a group (at Stuard Lochhead Sculpture) An extraordinary body of work – prints and large oil paintings – by Bolivian revolutionary and self-taught artist Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913-c. 1960) at Ben Elwes Fine Art Renoir & Pisarro: Different Views – the giants of French impressionism on show at Connaught Brown A group of works by Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) from a private collection, for the first time on the market, including a portrait of her husband Ben Nicholson (at Patrick Bourne & Co) A wide-ranging assessment of works on paper by women artists of the 20th and 21st century at Stephen Ongpin Fine Art. Featured artists include Gillian Ayres, Lynne Drexler, Helen Frankenthaler, Gluck, Gwen John, Dora Maar, Joan Mitchell, Jenny Saville and Vivian Springford.

Philip Mould & Company reintroduces Stephen Tomlin, the Bloomsbury group’s primary sculptor, who died tragically young. He immortalised the faces of Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf. This important exhibition will lay bare the life and work of Bloomsbury’s forgotten iconographer.

The Cline Collection at Daniel Crouch Rare Books - the story of London told in 40,000 books, maps, and prints spanning 400 years - the largest such collection in private hands. Perhaps the greatest gathering of exemplary C19th furniture and design, from the collection of former V&A curator Clive Wainwright, at H. Blairman & Sons, including examples by Sir John Soane and AWN Pugin.

Important highlights include: A rare, large oil on canvas by Gustav Doré (1832-1883), The Fall of the Rebel Angels, painted c1871/2 presented by Clase Fine Art in a new assessment of works by the artist The Chinese Export ‘Lion Mask’ Huang-Huali Suite c1740, an important group of chairs based on designs produced in England during the late 1730s, offered online at LAW Digital by Thomas Coulborn & Sons

Sarah Stone’s Unseen World – A Rare Collection of 18th Century Ornithological Watercolours by the trailblazing 18th Century female artist Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844). She was an esteemed British natural history painter and probably the first English woman painter of animals to achieve professional recognition. With Finch & Co at Cromwell Place.
A Lady in Grey and Black by Sir John Lavery, new to the market, which was first exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1902, followed by the RA in 1903, with The Fine Art Society.

An extraordinarily ornate trophy frame, carved for a portrait of Queen Anne c1710 (after Kneller), at Paul Mitchell Antique & Handmade Replica Frames. An 1881 work by Harry Humphrey Moore (New York 1844-1926 Paris) one of the unsung heroes of C19th American art, A Japanese Hotel In The Rain, offered by Nonesuch Gallery.

2023 EXHIBITORS
London Art Week Showcase Abbott and Holder Afridi Agnews Paolo Antonacci - Roma Charles Beddington Ltd Benappi Fine Art Galeria Bernat H. Blairman & Sons Bonhams Patrick Bourne & Co Connaught Brown Christie's Clase Fine Art Colnaghi Colnaghi Elliott Master Drawings Thomas Coulborn & Sons Daniel Crouch Rare Books Dominic Fine Art E & H Manners Elliott Fine Art Ben Elwes Fine Art Finch & Co The Fine Art Society Sam Fogg Fondantico di Tiziana Sassoli Peter Harrington Haynes Fine Art Hignell Gallery Daniel Katz Gallery Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd Stuart Lochhead Sculpture Lullo • Pampoulides James Mackinnon David Messum Fine Art John Mitchell Fine Paintings Paul Mitchell Antique & Handmade Replica Frames Amir Mohtashemi Moretti Fine Art Philip Mould & Company Maurizio Nobile Fine Art Nonesuch Gallery Stephen Ongpin Fine Art Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Raccanello Leprince Reve Art Rupert Wace & Rupert Bathurst Shapero Rare Books / Shapero Modern Sladmore Gallery Sotheby's Stair Sainty Karen Taylor Fine Art Trinity Fine Art & Walter Padovani The Weiss Gallery