Hans Richter

From 22 February to 9 March 2012

Waterhouse & Dodd are delighted to show their first solo exhibition at the 16 Savile Row gallery dedicated to the work of Hans Richter. Richter was a Dada icon whose visual art (painting, collage and film), writing and personality helped form one of the most important artistic movements of the 20th Century.

The exhibition will comprise 30 works originally from the estate of the artist. Waterhouse & Dodd will include work from across Richter’s long career, from his earliest still life canvases through to his famous Dada head series, of which we have two delightful examples.
 
Hans Richter is well known both as a painter and filmmaker. While in Zurich from 1916-20 he pioneered the Dada movement with Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara and others. In 1940 he left Europe for the US and became an American citizen. His films include the seminal Dada film: Dadascope and he produced a catalogue of films in collaboration with Hans Arp, Calder, Duchamp, Ernst, Man Ray and others. His paintings are in the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1964 Hans Richter wrote the seminal text on Dada theory in Dada, Art and Anti-Art.
 
Richter’s art is hard to pigeon-hole as it covers such a wide number of styles. The beautifully painted, almost Nicholson-like, dreamscapes contradict with his anti-art of torn newspaper collages which remind us of Mimmo Rotella and even Kurt Schwitters who Richter himself knew well. Richter’s oeuvre always keeps us guessing and that is what makes him such a fascinating artist to exhibit.
 
For further information please contact:
 
Oliver Shuttleworth, Waterhouse & Dodd, 16 Savile Row, London W1S 3PL
Tel:            020 7734 7800
e-mail:       oliver@waterhousedodd.com
 
Images and price lists available on request. Prices range from £1,200 to £20,000.


Other exhibitions & fairs

Upcoming

Still life show, Cork Street (15 May - 7 June)

PULSE New York (9-12 May)

 

Past

TEFAF, Maastricht 2013 (15 - 24 March)

Robi Walters Exhibition, London (6 - 28 March)

SCOPE New York (7 - 10 March)

Art Wynwood 2013 (15-18 February)

American International Fine Art Fair (5 - 10 February)

Art Palm Beach ( 24-28 January)

LA Art Show 2013 (23- 27 January)

London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington (16 - 20 January)

The Original Print Show, London (21 November - 14 December)
Etsuko Ichikawa: Tracing the Light, New York (15 November - 28 December)

Art Miami 2012 (4 - 9 December 2012)

Scope Miami 2012 (4 - 9 December 2012)

Alex Rennie, London (24 October - 16 November)

20/21 British Art Fair, London (12 September - 16 September)

Abu Dhabi Art Fair (7 November- 10 November)
Graham Dean, Olympics Exhibition, London (18 July - 10 August)
Sol LeWitt: Works on Paper, New York (22 June-20 July)

Karin Krommes Exhibition, London (21 June-13 July)

MASTERPIECE LONDON 2012 (28 June-4 July)

Scope Basel (12 June-17 June)

Angela Palmer Exhibition, London (23 May-15 June)

Michael Snape, New York (2 May-15 June)

Ingolv Helland Exhibition, London (25 April-18 May)

Georges Folmer major retrospective (24 April -11 May)

Dimensions Variable (29 March-27 April)

Michael Canning Exhibition, London (21st March-20th April)

TEFAF, Maastricht, Netherlands 2012

Hans Richter Exhibition, Savile Row, London (22 February-9 March)

Art Wynwood (16 February–20 February)

American International Fine Art Fair 2012 (2 February-12 February)

London - Claire Jarvis - Solo show (23 November-16 December)

London - Justine Smith - Solo show ( 26 October-18 November)

London - European Art 1850 - 2010, Savile Row (29 June-23 September)

London - Emil Robinson -Solo show
Hong Kong - Fine Art Asia (3 October-7 October)

PULSE New York (9-12 May)

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