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About Alice Mansfield

A graduate of the Slade, Alice has painted and written about art all her life. With her children now having now grown up and departed the nest, she recently took up sculpture. More Posts

Daunts book festival/ Rogues Gallery and East West Street

Yesterday with Melanie Gay, Bob Tickler, Stefan Ursolini and Ken Howard I attended a book event at Daunts showcasing the above books both of which I enjoyed. Philip Mould, the fluent charming art dealer who appears in both the Antiques Road Show and Fake or Fortune, interviewed Philip Hook the [...]

March 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

America after the Fall and Edward Hopper

American art and British too has frequently divided into a battle between figurative and abstract art in the twentieth century. On one hand you have the artists like Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns associated with modern expressionist abstract and in the other corner of the canvas Andrew Wyeth and [...]

March 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Rogues Gallery/Philip Hook

Philip Hook was a director of Sotheby’s and has written an an engaging and informed account of art dealing over the last 500 years. It is both anecdotal and thematic. It is particularly interseting on the relationship between the art dealer and the collector but he also refers to the artist, [...]

March 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

More on cynical art dealing

After reading my post a friend sent me this article by Luke Johnson, the entrepreneur, on art dealing – THE TIMES It does share some points with my piece – notably that it’s an unregulated market and the naive collector should beware the dealer. I don’t agree with all of it [...]

February 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Meeting Ken Howard

I always enjoy the company of artist Ken Howard with whom I had dinner the other night at the Chelsea Arts Club. 85 years young he is still has a prodigious output mainly of places he has just visited. Known chiefly as a painter of light and use of contre jour technique (against the daylight) he is [...]

February 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Picasso’s ceramics

Like many of genius Picasso had a restless spirit. That spirit might explain why he went through so many periods – blue, pink, cubist and experimented in so many different media. In 1947 when his artistic and political fame (he was a director of the Prado during the Spanish Civil War and [...]

January 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Spotting fakes

When Bob Tickler emailed me to say he was in negotiation to buy a lithograph by Marc Chagall, I advised him to be careful as the market is awash with fakes. With modern techniques you can produce a replica which even the most discerning of art expert would have difficulty in recognising as a [...]

December 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Christopher Wood

Before going to  the Chichester Festival Theatre to see Half a Sixpence we visited the Pallant Gallery to view the Christopher Wood exhibition. Wood is an artist whose life is more interesting than his work. Born in 1901 in Knowsley he went to Marlborough School where he sustained a blood [...]

August 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Lives of Disraeli

I have a confession to make. Two in fact. I do not enjoy reading biography and one of the reasons for  this is that I remember little of what I read. A biographer has to do much research and take great time. Much of the research goes into the book resulting in a lengthy volume which does not make [...]

August 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Gustav Sonata/Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain could be classified as writer of historical fiction – and a very good one – but one of her skills is her diversity. I was speaking to Neil Rosen who said much of the same of Stanley Kubrick who has directed films as different as Barry Lyndon to Dr Strangelove. I have read [...]

July 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

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