TEFAF Maastricht 2013
15 - 24 March 2013
Preview, 14 March, 12 - 9pm
Paris Tableau 2012
7 - 12 November 2012
On the strength of its successful inaugural show last year, Paris Tableau takes place again at the Palais de la Bourse, from 7 to 12 November.
The fair will feature a special exhibition Hidden Treasures of the Gobelins, a dozen painted trapestry cartoons from the Mobilier National and Tableau host for the first time a film festival that explores the relationship between old master paintings and contemporary cinema.
On our stand you will find a wonderful Traversi Card Players and a striking set of seven views of Malta by Pullicino. We look forward to seeing you. For information on the fair or tickets please contact the gallery.
FEDERICO BELTRAN-MASSES: Blue Nights and Libertine Legends
3 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 16, 2012
Stair Sainty Gallery is pleased to announce the first major UK retrospective since 1938 of the late Cuban-born, Spanish artist Federico Beltrán-Masses, who painted poetic, carnal women in dark-blue nocturnal shades, in Paris in the 1920’s and 30’s. The exhibition will include his two most famous paintings, Salome and La Maja Maldita, exhibited at the 1920 Venice Biennale, as well as his portraits of Hollywood legends Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr, and the painter's allegorical subject pictures which often took their inspiration from Baudelaire.
A fully illustrated 178 page hardback catalogue of the exhibition is available from the gallery upon request.
Reviews:
Art Wednesday - "a major retrospective"
Culture24 -"[Echoing] the darkly romantic escapism of 1920s cinema"
ArtNet - "Beltrán captured the escapism that characterised post-First World War society and the Jazz age [...] This exhibition provides an opportunity to reintroduce Federico Beltrán-Masses to the international market some seventy years after the artist’s last London show."
Luxsure.fr - "a fantastic retrospective exhibition of the work of Cuban born painter [...] The exhibition at Stair Sainty Gallery offers the perfect opportunity to reintroduce Federico Beltrán-Masses to the public – and to the international market."
ArtDaily - "Major retrospective opens at Stair Sainty Gallery"
frieze masters
9 - 14 October 2012
Masterpiece 2012, at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
28 June - 4 July 2012
Should you wish tickets for fair please contact the gallery to have them left at the door. We look forward to your visit.
TEFAF, Maastricht 2012
16 - 25 March 2012
TEFAF Maastricht 2012 will bring together the highest quality of objects in each of its represented fields. This year Stair Sainty is pleased to be exhibiting a perfectly preserved terracotta by Houdon believed to anticipate the marble portrait of Christoph Willibald Von Gluck that the artist presented at the Salon of 1777. We also have a thickly painted Henri Martin view of the Mediterranean and a Monet view of the Normandy coast. A dramatic large-scale nineteenth-century painting of a pair of Bengal Tigers dominates the entrance to the stand.
Please do not hesitate to be in touch should you wish further information about Masterpiece 2011, or would like tickets or Thursday night’s preview tickets.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, acquires Desportes Still-life
February 2012
The National Gallery of Art recently acquired Still Life of a kitchen table with dressed partridge, pheasants, a rack and leg of lamb, a basket of oranges and five ripe pears by the French painter to King Louis XV, Alexandre-Francois Desportes. The kitchen still-life shows game birds and rabbit, grandly prepared for a banquet, ready to be cooked in the palace’s ovens. The interior scene is unusual for its casual atmosphere in Desportes’s oeuvre.
PARIS TABLEAU, PALAIS DE LA BOURSE, PARIS
4 - 8 November 2011
We are showing at the inaugural Paris Tableau. This new fair, held in the centre of Paris, is dedicated entirely to Old Master paintings and like the Musée Louvre, will showcase exclusively works painted before 1850. The gallery will be exhibiting a wide range of old Masters including a recently rediscovered Canaletto and a Francesco Guardi Capriccio. An oil sketch of the Entry of Henri IV into Paris by Baron Gerard to be shown at Tableau was the artist’s proposal for the related, later Versailles painting. Presented to the King for approval, Louis-Philippe later gave this sketch to the Duchesse de Berry. We will also exhibit a wonderfully personal work by Ary Scheffer related to the Louvre’s large-scale Les ombres de Francesca da Rimini et de Paolo Malatesta apparaissent à Dante et à Virgile.
Please contact the gallery should you wish further information about Paris Tableau, general admission tickets or tickets to the Thursday evening preview. A map showing the Palais de la Bourse, located just blocks north of the Louvre, may be found here.
Masterpiece 2011 Fair at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
30 June - 5 July 2011
Masterpiece 2011 will bring together a wide-range of top-level exhibitors during the peak of London’s summer season. Enlivened by pop-up dining from Le Caprice and Harry’s Bar, the fair will be open from 11 am to 9pm over the weekend and we welcome seeing you at stand 22. We will exhibit major works by Jacques-Louis David, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Andre-Francois Desportes and Alessandro Algardi there.
TEFAF Maastricht 2011
18 - 27 March 2011
TEFAF Maastricht 2011 will bring together the highest quality of objects in each of its represented fields. This year Stair Sainty is please to be exhibiting for the first time since 1901 a recently rediscovered masterpiece, Ludus Pro Patria, by the highly influential Pierre Puvis de Chavannes; contemporary critics considered Puvis to be the greatest French painter of his day. In addition, we will exhibit a sun lit Courbet from a series of views of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman), which the artist executed while living in exile in La-Tour-de-Peilz, a town on the lake's Swiss shore. Also of interest are two paintings by Dubois-Pillet, one of boats on the Seine, the other a still-life of flowers; hung side-by-side, they demonstrate this early pointillist artist's technique and range.
Should you wish complimentary tickets to the fair please contact the gallery.