On a recent trip to the Jeffry Museum and the Whitechapel Art Gallery London, we noticed some strange sculpted mushrooms sitting on top of buildings in and around Kingsland Road, Old Street and the Hackney Road. None of us (and we all frequently travel to this area) had spotted them before and fascinated, we couldn’t resist…
I was captivated recently by this portrait entitled ‘Chinese Girl’ by the Siberian artist Vladimir Tretchikoff. It had been heavily promoted and was for sale by auction at Bonhams. It was the star of the show and sold for a whopping £982,000 (inc) nearly double it’s estimate. It produced probably one of the most iconic…
Welcome to another edition of interesting (and perhaps not so interesting) art and design facts and musings from the lady herself. In this week’s edition… 10 Celebrity Art Collectors Its not a new thing this ‘I’m a Celebrity get me Another Monet’ world we live in. Art has been collected by the famous for eons.…
Sometimes researching pieces within our collections throws up some truly fascinating stories. They are engrossing and perhaps take up far too much of our time and this story is no exception. It relates to a portrait medallion by James Tassie of Admiral Sir John Lindsay (1737 – 1788), a British naval officer. His tours of…
Cataloguing the (rather Marmite) nail sculpture by David Gerry Partridge recently, its stark, cold nature reminded me of a little sculpture that we had the pleasure of handling a couple of years ago. It was that classic Only Fools and Horses moment where Del Boy sells the watch at auction and becomes the ‘millionaire’ he…