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Press Release

Dickinson’s 2019 TEFAF Maastricht stand will showcase a range of important works from Old Masters through to Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary pieces. The highlights feature an impressive and diverse group of female nudes, including Renoir’s monumental late Femme nue couchée (Gabrielle), a luminous 1903 depiction of one of the artist’s favourite models.

Alongside Femme nue couchée and a second, smaller Renoir nude, Jeune Fille Assise, Dickinson will exhibit one of Jean-Léon Gérôme’s late Turkish bathers, Les Baigneuses du Harem (1901); Picasso’s drawing of his sleeping lover Geneviève, La Pause (1951); and Paul Delvaux’s enigmatic Le Balcon (1948).

Among the Old Masters on offer are two new discoveries: a terracotta relief of the Penitent Magdalene by Andrea Brustolon, and Joseph Wright of Derby’s Portrait of Robert Sutton (1760). Further highlights include works by Pieter Brueghel II, Frans Francken II and Abraham Govaerts, and a view of The Redentore by Canaletto painted during his time in London.

In addition to the group of nudes, the 19th and 20th century rooms feature Gustave Courbet’s influential winter landscape Chasseur dans la Neige (c. 1864); several theatrical and radically modern figural paintings by Kees van Dongen, including the elegant portrait Plumes blanches (c. 1910-12); and Surrealist pieces including Joan Miró’s Group de Personnages, painted during the turbulent years of the Spanish Civil War (1938), as well as Joseph Cornell’s Blue Medici (c. 1954). These will be accompanied by significant works on paper by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso; and two fine Modern British sculptures by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore.

The Postwar period will be represented by Jean Dubuffet’s abstract Paysage Amoncelé (1968); as well as by Dubuffet’s gouache and collage piece Urbi et Orbi (1962).

For further press information please contact:
Susie Lawson – Director, Branch Arts
[email protected] | +44 (0) 7971 007576 | www.branch-arts.com

Selected Press

Antiques Trade Gazette [print issue]

The Early Bird Sales at TEFAF / 23rd Mar 2019

Among the biggest sales so far was Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 1903 oil on canvas Femme nue couchée (Gabrielle)  which was exhibited on the stand of London dealer Dickinson.

Artsy

7 Art-Historical Treasures for Sale at TEFAF Maastricht / 15th Mar 2019

These two lovely Van Dongen paintings in Dickinson’s presentation are homages to the female form. Nu fauve a la jarretière rouge (1905–07) shows a pretty […] odalisque rendered in broad green-and-pink brushstrokes. It’s the unknown woman in Plumes blanches (1910–12), however, that captures Van Dongen’s knack for decidedly modern, emotionally complex portraits of upper-class women. The dealer could not confirm the identity of the sitter, who looks out at the viewer almost confrontationally, her exceptionally plumed hat adding to her regality. Yet her dark skin suggests that she may be of North African descent, a hypothesis supported by the recent trip the artist had taken to Algeria. Nevertheless, she is a showstopper…

Le Figaro

Tefaf Maastricht 2019: les dix coups de coeur du Figaro / 17th Mar 2019

Renoir et sa femme nue couchée: «C’est le plus beau nu jamais peint, personne n’a fait mieux», voilà ce que disait Henri Matisse de cette femme alanguie sur son coussin que Renoir a couché sur la toile en 1903. La phrase est écrite en dessous du tableau accroché sur le stand de Dickinson, marchand anglais réputé pour amener chaque année des «block busters» à la Tefaf

De Limburger

Schilderij Renoir verkocht op Tefaf / 14th Mar 2019

Nog voordat de kunstbeurs Tefaf in Maastricht is begonnen, is al een van de topstukken verkocht. Het is het schilderij ‘Femme Nue Couchée (Gabrielle)’, een liggend naakt van Pierre-Auguste Renoir uit 1903.

The Art Newspaper

Tefaf Maastricht wish list: from a £3m Pissarro landscape to ancient Greek armour / 14th Mar 2019

Kees van Dongen, La plume blanche (around 1910-12), Dickinson. This signed oil on canvas was made around the time that Kees van Dongen (1877-1968), a Paris-based Dutch artist, shifted to painting women in the city’s fashionable society circles. Van Dongen’s had previously been drawn to Paris’s demi-mondaines, depicted in his earlier nightlife scenes of dancers, singers, masquerades and theatre. It is “an important society portrait”, according to James Roundell of Dickinson, the London based fine art dealer. The elaborate dress of the anonymous sitter in this impasto work encapsulates “the lively atmosphere of Belle Époque Paris”, Roundell says. While most of the women Van Dongen portrayed are pale skinned, in this work it appears the woman may be of African heritage. La plume blanche (The white feather) has been in private hands for over a century.