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Throwing light on a
lifetime in the shadows
IN HIS SIXTY-YEAR CAREER as a photographer, Saul Leiter has
received little recognition. Although his works were selected by
Edward Steichen to feature in the photography show Always the
Young Stranger at MOMA in 1953, he dropped out of public view
soon after to pursue a quiet career in fashion photography.
However, after more than 50 years of relative obscurity, the
artist, aged 84, is having something of a breakthrough. The first
European retrospective of Leiter’s street photography has just
closed at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris and now
his works are coming to England.
Saul Leiter: Early Colour 1948-1959 is the first UK solo
exhibition of the artist’s groundbreaking early colour works and is
being held by Faggionato in association with the Howard
Greenberg Gallery, New York.
The exhibition focuses on Leiter’s New York Street scenes – a
subject that he has returned to again and again throughout his
career. Far from being straightforward, the scenes are often halfhidden,
veiled and fragmented. Forms are abstracted, tones
muted and subjects often cropped at unconventional angles.
There is an element of ambiguity to many of the works – a
confusion that Leiter encourages, savouring the moment when
“we do not know why (or what) we are looking at and then, all of
a sudden, we discover something we start seeing”.
Saul Leiter: Early Colour 1948-1959 runs until July 4 at
Faggionato, 49 Albemarle Street. T 020 7409 7979.
ABOVE: SAUL LEITER, MONDRIAN, 1954
LEFT: SAUL LEITER, KUTZTOWN, 1948
© SAUL LEITER, COURTESY FAGGIONATO FINE ARTS, LONDON
art events
UNTIL JUNE 14
Double Perspective
Landscape and abstract works by seven
contemporary artists from Venezuela.
Maddox Arts, 52 Brook’s Mews.
Tel: 020 7495 3101.
UNTIL JUNE 21
The Effect: Haim Steinbach
Ten recent sculptures by American artist
Haim Steinbach.
Waddington Galleries, 11 Cork Street.
Tel: 020 7851 2200.
UNTIL JUNE 21
Zhang Qikai
Inaugural UK exhibition for contemporary
Chinese artist Zhang Qikai, featuring
paintings of his favoured motif, the panda.
Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street.
Tel: 020 7629 5161.
UNTIL JUNE 21
James Lahey: Your Imperfect
History
New paintings by Canadian artist James
Lahey based on the motif of memento mori.
Flowers Central, 21 Cork Street.
Tel: 020 7439 7766.
UNTIL JUNE 27
Seeing and Believing
Group exhibition marking the gallery’s
200th anniversary.
Frost & Reed, 2-4 King Street.
Tel: 020 7839 4645.
UNTIL JULY 5
Home Lands — Land Marks
Contemporary South African Art
Presenting work by David Goldblatt,
Nicholas Hlobo, William Kentridge,
Vivienne Koorland, Santu Mofokeng, Berni
Searle and Guy Tillim.
Haunch of Venison, 6 Haunch of Venison
Yard.
Tel: 020 7495 5050.
UNTIL JULY 26
Hans Josephsohn
Figurative sculptures by 87-year-old
German artist Hans Josephsohn.
Summer at the RA
THIS YEAR’S ROYAL ACADEMY Summer
Exhibition runs from June 9-August 17. The
show brings together its usual motley crew
of artists, displaying works by established
household names alongside complete
unknowns.
Media ranges from painting, printmaking
and photography to sculpture and
architecture, and all the works are based
loosely on the theme of man-made.
Hauser & Wirth, 196a Piccadilly.
Tel: 020 7287 2300.
JUNE 4-JULY 18
The Grand Gallery
Paintings by Titian, Correggio, Van Dyke
and Vouet highlight this group exhibition,
in association with Whitford Fine Art.
Partridge Fine Art, 144-146 New Bond
Street.
Tel: 020 7629 0834.
JUNE 5-JULY 6
Creative Space
New works by conceptual painter Damian
Elwes, which feature the studios of Dali,
Kahlo, Picasso and Matisse.
Lefevre Fine Art, 31 Bruton Street.
Tel: 020 7493 2107.
JUNE 11-20
Charlie Langton
Equestrian drawings, paintings and
sculpture by the young artist.
Tryon Gallery, 7 Bury Street.
Tel: 020 7839 8083.
JUNE 12-18
The Grosvenor House Art &
Antiques Fair
Host to 85 dealers in furniture, paintings,
jewellery, ceramics, sculpture, silver,
oriental works of art, objects d’art and, for
the first time, photography and fine wine.
Grosvenor House, Park Lane.
Tel: 020 7399 8100.
JUNE 12-JULY 19
Michael Craig-Martin — New
computer & Print Editions
Bringing together works from Michael
Craig Martin’s Alphabet series, Tokyo
Sunsets series and new computer
animations.
Alan Cristea Gallery, 31 & 34 Cork Street.
Tel: 020 7439 1549.
JUNE 13-20
London Sculpture Week
Running across galleries in Mayfair and
St James’s. Sculptures span ancient
Greece to the present day.
For details visit
Highlights of this year’s show include a
gallery curated by Tracy Emin RA, the Print
Room overseen by Stephen Chambers RA
and a memorial display devoted to the late
RB Kitaj RA, who died last year.
As with last year, BBC2 will be screening
a Culture Show special on the exhibition.
Royal Academy, Burlington House,
Piccadilly. T 020 7300 8000.
RB KITAJ, COUNT WEST-WEST
www.londonsculptureweek.co.uk
JUNE 18-SEPTEMBER 7
Radical Light: Italy’s Divisionist
Painters 1891-1910
Exploring the relationship between Italian
Divisionism and the emerging Futurist
movement in the early 20th century.
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square.
Tel: 020 7747 2885.
JUNE 21-SEPTEMBER 21
Summer Art Show
Group exhibition including works by
Monet, Renoir and Lichtenstein.
Opera Gallery, 134 New Bond Street.
Tel: 020 7491 2999.
JUNE 25-JULY 12
Mike Francis
Photo-realist paintings by Mike Francis,
inspired by memories of the artist’s life in
Soho and Covent Garden in the 1950s
and 60s.
Messum’s, 8 Cork Street. Tel: 020 7437
5545.
Faces in miniature
reveal their secrets
“GOOD THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES”
is a rather tired expression but one that
certainly rings true for Philip Mould’s new
exhibition of British portrait miniatures.
Entitled Secret Faces, the exhibition brings
together a rare selection of scarcely displayed
miniature portraits. The minute works – many
just two inches high – are on loan from private
collections as well as the Victoria & Albert
Museum, the Ashmolean, the Barber Institute
and Holburne Museum.
Highlights include an intimate portrait of
the landscape gardener Humphrey Repton by
John Dowman and the Gresley Jewel – an
exquisite jewelled case containing portrait
miniatures of Sir Thomas Gresley and his
young bride Catherine Walsingham by
Nicholas Hilliard. The jewelled case is believed
to be the only surviving example containing
portraits of a courtly couple (rather than royal)
and has not been seen in public since 1981.
Miniatures by Peter Oliver, Samuel Cooper
and John Smart (work pictured) also feature.
Secret Faces: The Unseen Portrait Miniature
runs until June 14 at Philip Mould, 29 Dover
Street. T 020 7499 6818.
PICTURED: JOHN SMART, A PORTRAIT OF MRS
RUSSELL (NEE COX) 1781
PHOTO COURTESY OF PHILIP MOULD LTD.