Bernard Jacobson Gallery
Coordinates: 51°30′37″N 0°08′31″W / 51.51034°N 0.14196°W
Bernard Jacobson Gallery is an art gallery based in Duke Street St. James's, London, England, dealing in modern and contemporary British and international art.
History
Bernard Jacobson Gallery was founded in 1969, specialising in publishing contemporary prints by artists including Robyn Denny, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff, Richard Smith, Ed Ruscha and William Tillyer. By the mid-1970s, Jacobson began to deal in paintings and sculpture.
The early 1980s saw the gallery open branches in Los Angeles and New York, expanding their range of international artists to include West Coast artists such as Joe Goode and Larry Bell, as well as modern British artists such as Ivon Hitchens, Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, and Graham Sutherland.
From 1997, the gallery moved more firmly into American and international art, with shows of artists including Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons and Frank Stella.
In 2004, the gallery re-opened at 6 Cork in London's Mayfair, uniting Bernard Jacobson Graphics and Bernard Jacobson Gallery under one roof. Since then, the gallery has held major exhibitions including a two-part examination of Robert Motherwell's Open series (which provided the largest showing of the artist's work in the UK since the 1978 retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London) [1], a selection of works from Helen Frankenthaler's personal collection[2], a four-part exhibition of the work of British artist William Tillyer, and the first UK exhibition of new work by French Painter Pierre Soulages, for over thirty years. The exhibition followed on the tail of a Soulages retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou.[1]
The gallery has hosted solo exhibitions of work by Robert Motherwell (Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper, October - November 2011), Ben Nicholson (Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Drawings, and Reliefs, April - June 2012), and Kurt Schwitters (Kurt Schwitters: Collages and Assemblages, February - April 2013) and contemporary artists Karl Hyde (What's Going On in your Head while you're Dancing, July - August 2012), Bruce McLean (The Shapes of Sculpture, October - November 2012) and Marc Vaux (Full House: Paintings from 1964, November - December 2012). The 2013 exhibition programme includes a series of collage exhibitions, including a show of collages by Robert Motherwell to coincide with Robert Motherwell: The Early Collages opening at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice in May 2013.
In 2011 the gallery open a new space in New York on East 71st Street with an inaugural exhibition entitled 60 Years of British art, followed by 21 Americans, showing work by American artists including Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others.
In January 2015 Bernard Jacobson Gallery moved into its new premises in a converted car park in Duke Street St James’s, London. Designed by Nick Gowing architects, the gallery occupies the ground and lower ground floor.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery participates at The Armory Show, New York; Expo Chicago; Frieze Masters, London; and the Art Basel fairs in Hong Kong, Basel, and Miami Beach.
Artists
- Larry Bell
- Ronald Bladen
- Norman Bluhm
- Bram Bogart
- Anthony Caro
- Harold Cohen
- Robyn Denny
- Sam Francis
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Pia Fries
- Joe Goode
- Howard Hodgkin
- Shirley Kaneda
- Phillip King
- Bruce McLean
- Robert Motherwell
- Ben Nicholson
- Jules Olitski
- Larry Poons
- Nicholas Pope
- Richard Smith
- Frank Stella
- Graham Sutherland
- William Tillyer
- Marc Vaux
- Tom Wesselmann