Peter Phillips, a founding figure of British Pop Art whose vibrant, iconoclastic canvases helped define a new visual language for Post-War Britain, has died at the age of 86. His family confirmed the news in a statement released on 2nd July. Born in Birmingham in...
The British artist Tom Phillips RA has died. Phillips was born in London in 1937. He attended St Catherine’s College, Oxford, in 1957, where he read English. His gallery, Flowers has written, "Phillips attended drawing classes and lectures on Renaissance iconography...
Two exhibitions just opened at a pair of well-respected West End commercial galleries here in London, seem to illustrate the complexity of the contemporary art situation as it is now. I was therefore surprised and maybe a trifle saddened by how little impact Peter...
Autumn Contemporary Art Auction Round-up: A David Hockney landscapes '15 Canvas Study of the Grand Canyon' (1998), sold for £6,008,750 / $7,949,576 /€6,740,013 achieving the second highest price for the artist at auction, following the record set in Sotheby’s New York...
A tribute to the British Pop artist Peter Blake (b.1932) at Waddington Custot, in collaboration with designer Robin Brown and producer Anna Pank. Will feature at Frieze Masters this October. The stand will bring together the artist’s work, collections, and studio...
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced that the Scottish painter Peter Doig (b. 1959) is the fourth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award. The Art Icon 2017 award will be presented at Whitechapel Gallery on 25 January 2017, during a gala dinner hosted...
Phillips announces the appointment of Genevieve Janvrin as Head of Photographs, Europe. Janvrin will be based in London and will work as a strategic partner to Worldwide Head of Photographs, Vanessa Hallett, developing and managing sales within Europe.With over...
The ‘Frieze Week’ auctions at Phillips totalled £38,522,675 / $58,694,880 / €51,305,365 selling 99% by value and 86% by lot. “We are very pleased with tonight’s results,” said Peter Sumner, Head of the Contemporary Art, London...
A new exhibition titled, Peter Blake: Portraits and People, the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s portraiture has been announced for Waddington Custot Galleries in November . Selected by the artist, the exhibition will feature a...