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News-Antique.com - Nov 30,-0001 - Eleven Dealers Highlight the Power and Presence of Sculpture
Following the success of the first London Sculpture Week last year, London Sculpture Week 2005
will take place from Thursday 16 to Friday 24 June. Eleven of London’s most respected dealers will
stage special exhibitions and one of the most exciting aspects of this enterprise is the wide variety of
sculpture that will be featured with pieces from all corners of the world and dating from antiquity up to
the present day with prices ranging from around £2,000 up to over £1 million. The event is generously
supported by Heath Lambert Group.
London Sculpture Week has already become a significant addition to the wide variety of major
exhibitions, fairs and auctions that draw thousands of art lovers to London in June and make the city one
of the most important art market centres of the world. This year’s participating dealers are Robert
Bowman (19th and 20th century sculpture), Entwistle (tribal art), John Eskenazi (Indian and South-east
Asian art), The Fine Art Society (19th and 20th century sculpture), Sam Fogg (medieval European art),
Daniel Katz (European sculpture), The Mayor Gallery (Surrealist and Pop Art), Nevill Keating
Tollemache (19th and 20th century sculpture), Rossi & Rossi (Himalayan art), Trinity Fine Art (European
sculpture) and Rupert Wace Ancient Art (antiquities).
All of these well-known dealers have galleries in the Mayfair area of London making it easy for visitors
to walk from one exhibition to another. The Fine Art Society’s theme will be Sculpture for Public Places
including two well-known London bronzes: George Frampton’s 1911 statue of Peter Pan and Alfred
Gilbert’s 1891 Eros. Sam Fogg will present Sculpture carved in stone 1100-1500 including a 12th
century capital carved in marble from a church in Languedoc. By contrast The Mayor Gallery will
feature Surreal works including a selection of owl sculptures such as Urban Owl 2004 by Ivor Abrahams
RA (b.1935). Also joining London Sculpture Week is Entwistle who will be showing a small group
of exceptional works from Africa and Oceania.
Nevill Keating Tollemache will stage an exhibition of sculpture and drawings by Auguste Rodin (1840-
1917) in conjunction with Jérôme Le Blay, author of the forthcoming catalogue critique of Rodin’s
sculpture. Works by Rodin will also be featured in Robert Bowman’s Craft and Creation alongside work
by Rodin’s contemporaries and others who were inspired by him, such as Sir Alfred Gilbert RA (1854-
1934). Trinity Fine Art will offer a selection of terracotta sculpture and ‘bozzetti’, a field that has
attracted increasing interest since the success of the Fire and Earth exhibitions held at the Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, 2001, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2002. Among them will be
Olindo and Sofonia by Giuseppe Gricci (c.1700-1770). Daniel Katz’s exhibits will include a charming
marble statue of a young French mother breast-feeding her baby by Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902).
Rupert Wace Ancient Art will present Eternal Woman: The Female Form in Antiquity which focuses on
remarkable sculptures of women created over
