Ink and watercolour book cover illustration for In and Out of the Garden (published in 1981), £6500 at Chris Beetles.
Chris Beetles
St James’s art dealer Chris Beetles is hosting an exhibition on the work of artist and author Sara Midda (b.1951). Running until November 15, the show called Sara Midda: A Retrospective features more than 300 artworks from over four decades alongside some of her ideas for a new book.
Midda has written and illustrated books throughout her career as well as working for 20 years for Japanese department stores creating designs for homeware, clothes and stationery.
Eskenazi
Song blue-glazed splashed stoneware dish Jin period (12th-13th century). The Song works are priced from $25,000 to more than $1m with Eskenazi.
As part of Asian Art in London Eskenazi is holding two exhibitions in its gallery in Clifford Street, Mayfair, until November 14. One features Chinese ceramics, metalwork and lacquer from the 12th to the 14th century and the other is dedicated to eight new works by Contemporary Chinese ink painter Li Huayi (b.1948), titled Trees and Mountains on gold and silver.
Among the highlights of the historic show is a 13th century gold drinking cup with chased decoration. There are only a few known similar examples in gold; one closely related cup now dated to the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and was formerly in the George Eumorfopoulos (1863-1939) collection.
Sim Fine Art
Cleaning Day attributed to Evelyn Dunbar, £12,500 at Sim Fine Art.
Andrew Sim of Sim Fine Art will be staging his Holding The Line: The Art of the War Years exhibition for the 16th year running this month. As reported in ATG No 2712, this year it incorporates a selling exhibition of 30 works by Thomas Hennell (1903-45).
The show at The Gallery, 54 Shepherd Market, London also includes an oil painting that Sim has tentatively attributed to Evelyn Dunbar (1906-60). The oil on canvas titled Cleaning Day, depicting women moving a chest of drawers (with the assistance of small children), is priced at £12,500.
Sims says: “The subject matter, stylisation of faces, period, palette and the cluster of domestic objects in the foreground are all so characteristic of her work.”
