MODERN BRITISH EXHIBITION AT OSBORNE SAMUEL

JUNE 15 – JULY 22

This summer’s highly anticipated Modern British collection at Osborne Samuel, built around works from three private collections, includes a number of pieces that have not been seen publicly for a very long time.

Terry Frost
Red, Black and Blue Arrows, 1962. Oil on canvas

One highlight of the painting collection, featured above, is Terry Frost’s semi-abstract oil on canvas Red, Black and Blue Arrows, painted in 1962, influenced by a Cromwellian chair he saw at a country house while house-hunting in Warwickshire. Also featured is a large Ivon Hitchens (Water Beyond, No.5, 1962), and an exceptionally rare William Nicholson painting of his wife Edie. There are also portraits by Lucien Freud and Frank Auerbach, and a couple of fine John Craxtons.

Among the sculptures is a Henry Moore (Mother and Child on Ladderback Chair), several early Lynn Chadwicks, and an emotionally impactful bronze head – Tribute IV – by Elizabeth Frink, inspired by her support for Amnesty International.

The show will open at Osborne Samuel’s Dering Street gallery, and then, as it does every year, part transfer to the Masterpiece Fair. This year there is an added complication, as some of the collection will also be shown at the TEFAF Maastricht, in the last week of June.