Modern British masterpieces from Frank and Cherryl Cohen’s private collection are going on public display for the first time when a new exhibition (selected pictures available electronically on request) titled ‘Frank and Cherryl Cohen at Chatsworth’ opens in the New Gallery at Chatsworth, Derbyshire,19 March 2012.
Described by curator Robert Upstone as “one of the finest and most definitive private collections of modern British art”, the exhibition includes paintings from artists such as Stanley Spencer, LS Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, William Roberts, William Scott, Paula Rego and Edward Burra, and sculptures by Kenneth Armitage, William Turnbull, Eduardo Paolozzi and Reg Butler.
The exhibition runs until 10 June and showcases, particularly, different treatments of the figure, 50s and 60s abstraction, and the School of London. Key pieces in the exhibition, many of which have not been seen in public for decades, include:
Stanley Spencer: Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta: Conversation between Punts 1955 – one of the major figures of 20C British Art and a key work from later in Spencer’s career, ‘Cookham Regatta’ brings Christ into the modern world and is rooted in the artist’s vision of the spirituality of English rural/village life.
Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith: Connie Martin 1915 – Matthew Smith was a key member of the British avant-garde. His picture of Connie Martin subverts traditional stereotypes of portraiture by adopting the bright, pure colours of European Expressionism- highly unusual in Britain at this date.
William Scott: Upright Abstract 1957 – Scott developed his style from figurative still lives into ever greater abstraction and this is one of his finest paintings, using minimal colouring and expressive modulation of the paint to render an abstract image of objects on a table top.
Edward Burra: Striptease, Harlem c.1934 – one of the most distinctive of 20C British artists, Burra had a totally unique vision of everyday life and here he presents the gritty and the magical side-by-side in character studies drawn from his time in Harlem, New York in the 1930’s.
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