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In the stifling heat of August 1960 (the temperature is recorded at around 30°C ), in her flat at 56 St Mark's Road, a Bohemian and faintly run-down street in Notting Hill, with a copy of Goldscheiders 'Michelangelo' open at the page on the Sistine Ceiling, Dorothy arranged her model, John Hall from the flat downstairs, in the poses of the various 'Ignudi', and produced a group of dynamic and powerful and highly original charcoal drawings.

These works, from the collection of the artist's family and unseen since Dorothy's death, form the core of our exhibition, which also includes further hitherto unseen paintings and drawings from the family collection.

As a young woman from North Macedonia, a country once part of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, Elitsa Ristova seeks to reclaim Orientalism from the almost exclusively male artists of the 19th century who travelled to the region in pursuit of titillation. Where the Orientalist painters depicted mainly scantily clad women in submissive postures with eyes averted, Ristova presents herself and her sitters looking the viewer directly in the eye, confident and often challenging, both modern and relevant. Meanwhile, her flat application of colour and stylised features mirror the deliberately non-realist traditions of Byzantine art, where figures are presented devoid of movement, static but with a real emotional heft.

We are delighted to present a collection of rare and beautiful kinetic artworks of the early 1960s by Georges Folmer (1895-1977).

Having represented the estate of the artist for more than 16 years, this is the first time they have released for sale such a group of Folmer’s ‘roto’ works – abstract paintings and sculptures with movable parts, turned by electric motors or by the hand of the owner to create new patterns and compositions.  This online exhibition represents a unique opportunity to acquire one of these rare and elegant pieces.

The works can be viewed by prior appointment at Waterhouse & Dodd, 2nd floor, 16 Savile Row, London W1S 3PL.

 

Jonathan Dodd

London, 2023

jonathan@waterhousedodd.com