Past
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Ben Nicholson: Defining Works
1929-1954 19 Sep - 10 Dec 2024 An artist of rare ingenuity, sharp wit and copious invention, Ben Nicholson was among the leading international modernist artists of the twentieth century. Piano Nobile is pleased to present significant works from several distinct periods of his career. Nicholson’s reputation is partly founded on his pioneering use of relief carving... Read more -
Abstract Painting in Britain
1960–65 19 Sep - 6 Dec 2024 A parallel presentation to Ben Nicholson: Defining Works 1929-1954, the exhibition features abstract paintings made in Britain between 1960 and 1965. Whereas Nicholson’s work was often infused with constructivist precision and cubist subtlety, the next generation of artists came of age in the era of New York School painting. Painterly... Read more -
Treasure House Fair
Royal Hospital Chelsea 27 Jun - 2 Jul 2024 Art Fair Piano Nobile returned to The Treasure House Fair in June of 2024. We highlighted works from across the twentieth century, with early paintings by Augustus John and Walter Sickert, Duncan Grant and Paul Nash, examples of London School paintings by R. B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach, alongside sculptural... Read more -
Augustus John
& the First Crisis of Brilliance 26 Apr - 13 Jul 2024 Piano Nobile The exhibition Augustus John and the First Crisis of Brilliance delves into the early works of one of the most important British artists of the 20th century, Augustus John (1878-1961), and examines why he was heralded as the ‘saviour’ of British painting at such a young age.
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William Crozier
Nature into Abstraction 14 Feb - 22 Mar 2024 Between 1958 and 1961, William Crozier (1930—2011) was making paintings inspired by his encounters with landscape. The results were not ‘landscapes’, ‘cityscapes’ or even ‘pictures’ but freeform expressions of his subjective viewpoint. He explained in 1958: ‘[painting] is seeing with an eye preset in peculiar focus so that the painter... Read more -
R B Kitaj
London to Los Angeles 25 Oct 2023 - 26 Jan 2024 Piano Nobile R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles was the first retrospective of the artist’s work in a decade. It provided a chronological overview of Kitaj's career, exploring the relationship between his art and the places he lived. Although he travelled widely, spending seasons and sometimes whole years in California, Catalonia,... Read more
