![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps this is more in tune with the fears and hopes our ancestors might have had for their own offspring."Īll the dealers we spoke to agreed that portraits have always held a special fascination for them. Florence Evans explains: "Times are more uncertain today than we have ever experienced in our own lifetime, and we worry about the future of our children. has a well-established love of the portrait and this summer's exhibition is the fourth in a series of Faces, while The Weiss Gallery, a specialist in historical portraits, chose to look at their collection of child portraits in particular. Pampoulides describes the origin of his gallery's exhibition In Silent Conversation: Portraits from the 16th to the 20th Centuries : "It grew from the realisation that we had unconsciously collected quite a number of powerful, emotionally-charged portraits and we wanted to promote the idea of the friendships and conversations we can have with these images of people during a period of imposed isolation and social distancing.".Being able to look into the eyes of a face not dissimilar to ours, and which was carved, painted, or drawn 600 years ago, can't collapse this new geographical distance we are having to negotiate in our lives, but it is very good at collapsing time." The poetess Fanny Tedeschi in purple and black, Courtesy of Lullo Pampoulides It is a show about human contact, at a time when we still are not allowed much of this. So I came up with 'Medieval Faces' as a way of restarting our engagement with the objects we love even if it has to be at a distance. Matthew Reeves at Sam Fogg, says: "At the gallery we spend pretty much every waking moment of our days thinking about art and enjoying the succour it gives us - a very privileged position to be in! But our sacrifice has been that we are cut off from the objects that mark our days and the museums and galleries that house and look after them. German sculptor The Head of John the Baptist c. It meant that some changed their planned exhibitions, with faces of our fellow beings becoming a focal point. The Covid-19 crisis has certainly influenced the art trade - dealers and auction house specialists have been separated from the works they may originally have wanted to include in London Art Week, while spending far more time at home than usual, living in isolation away from their galleries and unable to visit museums (which many dealers do a great deal of). Lastly, we ask them to share their all-time favourite portrait in a museum. Why do they value portraits so highly? And why is portraiture as important as ever? Here we highlight many interesting portraits included in LAW Digital 2020, and our dealers share some discovery stories from their career. It is perhaps no surprise in the current times that many of this summer's London Art Week participants have chosen to include portraits in their exhibition or theme their presentation to focus on the human face and form. ![]()
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