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Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell Review – the Remarkable Lives of Gwen and Augustus John
The Guardian 09/06/2025Gwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biography.
Fights, Flings and Fabulous Paintings: How Sibling Rivals Augustus and Gwen John Exasperated Each Other
The Guardian 02/06/2025He was a wild, glamorous, promiscuous painter, the toast of the early 20th century, whose life and career eclipsed his sister’s. But, after dying almost unknown, Gwen is now having the last laugh.
The Influence of European Modernism on The Scottish Colourist Group Is Explored in New Show
The Art Newspaper 30/01/2025The exhibition at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh will also look at how the four artists interacted with their UK contemporaries
Welsh Art Already Has a Home - Let’s Develop That Instead of Building Another
The Guardian 05/01/2025Rosslyn Morgan responds to a call for a new national gallery for Welsh art.
2024
Christie's to offer the private collection of influential art dealers Mary and Alan Hobart
ArtDaily 15/10/2024Christie’s will present the Private Collection of Mary and Alan Hobart, founders of Pyms Gallery and leading figures in the promotion of Irish art in Britain, to be auctioned on 19 November 2024 at Christie’s in London.
Bellmans to Sell Newly Discovered Early Dod Procter Portrait in May Modern British Auction
ArtDaily 06/05/2024Bellmans announced the auction on the 15th May of an early portrait painting by Dod Procter (British, 1892-1972) depicting a girl in a black dress with a fabulous red hat and striking wallpaper in the background from circa 1915.
Most Paintings Should Have Been Burnt’: Augustus John’s Granddaughter Attacks Artist’s Later Works
The Guardian 21/04/2024Celebrated painter ‘went down the drain from the 1930s’, claims Rebecca John in a new interview.
Nicholas Cullinan Visionary Director of The National Portrait Gallery Speaks to Nico Kos Earle – Artlyst Exclusive
ArtLyst 08/01/2024Since 2020, Nicholas Cullinan has overseen an acclaimed £41.3m renovation, which reopened on time and on budget, no mean feat.
2023
'Ahead of Her Time: Pioneering Women from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century' Now Showing
ArtDaily 06/12/2023Robilant+Voena is now showing an exhibition of works by Old Master, nineteenth- and twentieth-century women artists, alongside portraits of and works belonging to notable women in artistic, cultural or intellectual spheres.