British Art News
The latest news in Modern and Contemporary British Art.
by Alex Leith
BRITISH ART FAIR UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP
Ramsay Fairs is delighted to announce that the company has purchased British Art Fair from Robert and Johnny Sandelson and this revered art fair will join their portfolio of art fairs with immediate effect …
RETURNING TO THE TRENCHES
‘There is no beauty except in strife, and no masterpiece without aggressiveness’, stated the painter, etcher and lithographer CRW Nevinson, in a 1915 interview in The Daily Express, illustrated by an image of the painting Returning to the Trenches, on which this 1916 drypoint print, of the same title, is based.
THE REAL AND THE ROMANTIC
There was a push-me-pull-you tension about the British art scene between the two world wars, posits art historian Frances Spalding, in her fine new book The Real and the Romantic.