InSight is an editorial series that takes a detailed look at the stories and history surrounding a highlighted artwork and its artist. This long-form series is an opportunity to examine art more closely, to learn more about Piano Nobile’s offering, and to explore the narratives woven through twentieth-century British art.
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InSight No. 161
Lynn Chadwick | Pair of Sitting Figures VIII November 29, 2024 In the annals of twentieth-century sculpture, the work of Lynn Chadwick stands in a line that runs from Alexander Calder to Antony Gormley. InSight No. 161 Lynn Chadwick, Pair of... -
InSight No. 160
Ben Nicholson | Nov 9-53 (walnut), 1953 In the decade following World War II, Ben Nicholson forged an international reputation. His critical and commercial success was underpinned by ambitious still-life paintings. InSight No. 160 Ben Nicholson, Nov... -
InSight No. 159
Euan Uglow | Passionate Proportion, 1964 October 18, 2024 Like Chardin three hundred years before him, Euan Uglow knew how to make a substantial image with oil paint. InSight No. 159 Euan Uglow, Passionate Proportion, 1964 When a hungry... -
InSight No. 158
Peter Lanyon | Still Air, 1961 October 4, 2024 Surveying the sea, coast and sky from the cockpit of a glider, Peter Lanyon experienced the Cornish landscape in a state of heightened awareness. InSight No. 158 Peter Lanyon, Still... -
InSight No. 157
Ben Nicholson | December 1933 (first completed relief), 1933 September 24, 2024 Ben Nicholson’s relief carvings are a landmark in the history of modernist art. It was a new kind of art that married the tableau format of painting with the spatial... -
InSight No. 156
Alan Davie | Dragons' Eggs Assorted, 1962 September 9, 2024 As Piano Nobile prepares to open an autumn display of abstract painting made in sixties Britain, InSight considers the cultivated eccentricities of Alan Davie and the symbolism of his work.... -
InSight No. 155
Frank Dobson | Head of a Girl (Study for Cornucopia) August 23, 2024 Emerging shortly after Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein and half a generation before Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, Frank Dobson was hailed as the pre-eminent British sculptor of his day.... -
InSight No. 154
William Scott | Expanded August 9, 2024 In abstract paintings made in the late fifties and sixties, William Scott proved himself an inventive maker of hieroglyphs. InSight No. 154 William Scott, Expanded, 1965 For many representational painters... -
InSight No. 153
Duncan Grant | Hampstead Heath A rural patch north of London has provided more than one English painter with rich material to make landscape into art. InSight No. 153 Duncan Grant, Hampstead Heath, 1929 Once...
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