Bernard Jacobson Gallery
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Bernard Jacobson Gallery deals in modern and contemporary British and international art. The gallery is currently based in Cork Street
, London.
, Lucien Freud, David Hockney
, Leon Kossoff
, Richard Smith
, Ed Ruscha and William Tillyer
. By the mid-1970s, Jacobson began to deal in paintings and sculpture.
The early 1980s saw the gallery open branches in Los Angeles and New York, expanding their range of international artists to include West Coast artists such as Joe Goode
and Larry Bell
, as well as modern British masters such as Ivon Hitchens
, Peter Lanyon
, Ben Nicholson
, and Graham Sutherland
.
From 1997, the gallery moved more firmly into American and international art, with shows of artists including Kenneth Noland
, Jules Olitski
, Larry Poons
and Frank Stella
. Recent years have seen the gallery continue to expand in this direction, with shows by American artists including Robert Motherwell
and Helen Frankenthaler
, Robert Rauschenberg
, Roy Lichtenstein
, Tom Wesselmann
and Shirley Kaneda, European painters Bram Bogart, and Pia Fries
, and British artists: Sir Phillip King
and Sir Anthony Caro, and Harold Cohen
, William Tillyer
, Bruce McLean
, Nicholas Pope
and Marc Vaux
.
In 2004, the gallery re-opened at its current address at 6 Cork in London's Mayfair, uniting Bernard Jacobson Graphics and Bernard Jacobson Gallery under one roof. Since then, the gallery has held major exhibitions including a two-part examination of Robert Motherwell's Open Series (which provided the largest showing of the artist's work in the UK since the 1978 retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London) [1], a selection of new works by former President of the Royal Academy, Phillip King, a selection of works from Helen Frankenthaler's personal collection[2] and Bruce McLean's first London showing of new paintings in over fifteen years, also featuring a 'New, Live, Talking Sculpture'.
More recently in 2010, the gallery hosted a four-part exhibition series devoted to the work of North Yorkshire based artist William Tillyer
. The Tillyer season marked an unprecedented commitment by a commercial gallery to the work of a single artist[3]. In the same year, the gallery held the first UK exhibition of new work by French Painter Pierre Soulages
, for over thirty years. The exhibition followed on the tail of a major Soulages retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou
[1], and was received with huge success in London . New geometrical works by British artist Marc Vaux were also on show in the exhibition New Paintings: Triptychs and Ovals in conjunction with his display at the Tate Britain
.
2011 has seen the gallery open a new space in New York on East 71st Street with an inaugural exhibition entitled 60 Years of British art, followed by 21 Americans, showing work by American artists including Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery regularly participates in international art fairs, such as Art Brussels, Pavilion of Art and Design and Art Basel
.
Cork Street
Cork Street is a street in Mayfair in the West End of London, England. It is very well known in the British art world for the commercial art galleries that dominate the street. It is located to the north of Burlington House, which houses the Royal Academy, a leading British art institution...
, London.
History
Bernard Jacobson Gallery was founded in 1969, specialising in publishing contemporary prints by artists including Robyn DennyRobyn Denny
Robyn Denny, born in Abinger, Surrey in 1930, is one of a group who transformed British art in the late 1950s, leading it into the international mainstream. He studied at the Royal College of Art in the mid-1950s, among a generation that included Richard Smith and Alan Green...
, Lucien Freud, David Hockney
David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....
, Leon Kossoff
Leon Kossoff
Leon Kossoff is a British expressionist painter, known for portraits, life drawings and cityscapes of London, England....
, Richard Smith
Richard Smith
Richard Smith may refer to:* Richard Smyth , also written Richard Smith, English Catholic scholar* Richard Smith , English Catholic Bishop, titular of Chalcedon in Asia Minor...
, Ed Ruscha and William Tillyer
William Tillyer
William Tillyer is an English artist. His work has been shown frequently in London and New York since 1970.He studied art in his home town from 1956-9, moving south to London in the 1960s to study at the Slade School of Art. It was there where he encountered William Coldstream and Anthony Gross,...
. By the mid-1970s, Jacobson began to deal in paintings and sculpture.
The early 1980s saw the gallery open branches in Los Angeles and New York, expanding their range of international artists to include West Coast artists such as Joe Goode
Joe Goode
Joe Goode was born in Oklahoma City, OK in 1937. In 1959 he moved to Los Angeles, CA where he attended the Chouinard Art Institute until 1961.First recognized for his Pop Art milk bottle paintings and cloud imagery, Goode's work was included along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine,...
and Larry Bell
Larry Bell
Larry Bell may refer to:*Lawrence Dale Bell , American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation*Larry Bell , contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, California and Taos, New Mexico*Larry Bell, founder of Bell's Brewery...
, as well as modern British masters such as Ivon Hitchens
Ivon Hitchens
Ivon Hitchens was an English painter who started exhibiting during the 1920s. He became part of the 'London Group' of artists and exhibited with them during the 1930s. His house was bombed in 1940 during World War II, at which point he moved to a caravan on a patch of woodland near Petworth in...
, Peter Lanyon
Peter Lanyon
Peter Lanyon was a Cornish painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. He also made constructions, pottery and collage....
, Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson
Benjamin Lauder "Ben" Nicholson, OM was a British painter of abstract compositions , landscape and still-life.-Background and Training:...
, and Graham Sutherland
Graham Sutherland
Graham Vivien Sutherland OM was an English artist.-Early life:He was born in Streatham, attending Homefield Preparatory School, Sutton. He was then educated at Epsom College, Surrey before going up to Goldsmiths, University of London...
.
From 1997, the gallery moved more firmly into American and international art, with shows of artists including Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland was an American abstract painter. He was one of the best-known American Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School...
, Jules Olitski
Jules Olitski
Jules Olitski was an American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor.-Early life:Olitski was born Jevel Demikovski in Snovsk, in the Russian SFSR , a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Russian government...
, Larry Poons
Larry Poons
Lawrence Poons , better known as Larry Poons, is an abstract painter who was born in Tokyo, Japan. He studied from 1955 to 1957 at the New England Conservatory of Music, with the intent of becoming a professional musician...
and Frank Stella
Frank Stella
Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant within the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.-Biography:...
. Recent years have seen the gallery continue to expand in this direction, with shows by American artists including Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....
and Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler is an American abstract expressionist painter. She is a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work in six decades she has spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work...
, Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations...
, Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement...
, Tom Wesselmann
Tom Wesselmann
Tom Wesselmann was an American artist associated with the Pop art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.-Early years:...
and Shirley Kaneda, European painters Bram Bogart, and Pia Fries
Pia Fries
Pia Fries is a Swiss painter. Fries was born in Beromunster, Switzerland and studied sculpture in Lucerne in 1980, and painting under Gerhard Richter at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1986.-Selected Collections:...
, and British artists: Sir Phillip King
Phillip King
Phillip King PRA is a British sculptor. He is one of Anthony Caro's best known students, even though the two artists are near contemporaries. Their education followed similar trajectories and they both worked as assistants to Henry Moore...
and Sir Anthony Caro, and Harold Cohen
Harold Cohen
Harold Cohen may refer to:*Harold Cohen *Harold Cohen , Australian politician and brigadier*Harold Cohen Library, University of Liverpool's library-See also:*Harry Cohen, British politician*Harry Cohn, American businessman...
, William Tillyer
William Tillyer
William Tillyer is an English artist. His work has been shown frequently in London and New York since 1970.He studied art in his home town from 1956-9, moving south to London in the 1960s to study at the Slade School of Art. It was there where he encountered William Coldstream and Anthony Gross,...
, Bruce McLean
Bruce McLean
Bruce McLean is a Scottish performance artist and painter.McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at St Martin's School of Art, London,from 1963 to 1966...
, Nicholas Pope
Nicholas Pope
Nicholas Pope , British/Australian artist. He studied art at the Bath Academy of Art. In 1974 he was granted a Romanian Government Exchange Scholarship and in 1976 the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Award....
and Marc Vaux
Marc Vaux
Marc Vaux is a British artist who rose to prominence in the 1960s. His work was included in the seminal Situation exhibition of 1960 alongside Robyn Denny, William Turnbull Bernard Cohen among others...
.
In 2004, the gallery re-opened at its current address at 6 Cork in London's Mayfair, uniting Bernard Jacobson Graphics and Bernard Jacobson Gallery under one roof. Since then, the gallery has held major exhibitions including a two-part examination of Robert Motherwell's Open Series (which provided the largest showing of the artist's work in the UK since the 1978 retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London) [1], a selection of new works by former President of the Royal Academy, Phillip King, a selection of works from Helen Frankenthaler's personal collection[2] and Bruce McLean's first London showing of new paintings in over fifteen years, also featuring a 'New, Live, Talking Sculpture'.
More recently in 2010, the gallery hosted a four-part exhibition series devoted to the work of North Yorkshire based artist William Tillyer
William Tillyer
William Tillyer is an English artist. His work has been shown frequently in London and New York since 1970.He studied art in his home town from 1956-9, moving south to London in the 1960s to study at the Slade School of Art. It was there where he encountered William Coldstream and Anthony Gross,...
. The Tillyer season marked an unprecedented commitment by a commercial gallery to the work of a single artist[3]. In the same year, the gallery held the first UK exhibition of new work by French Painter Pierre Soulages
Pierre Soulages
Pierre Soulages is a French painter, engraver, and sculptor.-Biography:Born in Rodez in 1919, Soulages also is known as "the painter of black" because of his interest in the colour, "...both a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens up...
, for over thirty years. The exhibition followed on the tail of a major Soulages retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...
[1], and was received with huge success in London . New geometrical works by British artist Marc Vaux were also on show in the exhibition New Paintings: Triptychs and Ovals in conjunction with his display at the Tate Britain
Tate Britain
Tate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the works of J. M. W. Turner.-History:It...
.
2011 has seen the gallery open a new space in New York on East 71st Street with an inaugural exhibition entitled 60 Years of British art, followed by 21 Americans, showing work by American artists including Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery regularly participates in international art fairs, such as Art Brussels, Pavilion of Art and Design and Art Basel
Art Basel
Art Basel is an international contemporary art fair held each June in Basel, Switzerland. Similar to the Venice Biennale, it has been called "the Olympics of the art world". Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa...
.