Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon’s Gliding Paintings has opened at the Courtauld Gallery to excellent reviews. The Telegraph and Time Out both gave the show four stars, and Apollo Magazine has called the exhibition ‘compact yet powerful…a breath of fresh air’. The Observer described the works on show as ‘Exhilarating, uplifting, startling in their high originality – Peter Lanyon’s gliding paintings at the Courtauld Gallery are the revelation of the year.’

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/peter-lanyons-gliding-paintings-courtauld-review/

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/25/peter-lanyon-soaring-flights-review-courtauld-rhapsodies-in-blue

http://www.timeout.com/london/art/soaring-flight-peter-lanyons-gliding-paintings

http://www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/peter-lanyon-courtauld-gallery

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/peter-lanyons-reputation-is-finally-taking-off-courtauld-gallery/

Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon’s Gliding Paintings opens on 15 October 2015 at the Courtauld Gallery, London. It will be accompanied by a 152-page colour exhibition catalogue, produced by the Courtauld Gallery in association with Paul Holberton Publishing.

In preparation for the forthcoming exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon’s Gliding Paintings, earlier this year curators Toby Treves and Dr Barnaby Wright took to the air in a glider at the London Gliding Club. The aim was, by sharing the experience of powerless flight, to better understand the magnificent gliding and weather paintings that Lanyon created in the later years of his career, which drew directly upon the emotion and sensation of being in the sky.

Modern Art Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the catalogue raisonné of the works of Barry Flanagan, by Dr Jo Melvin

The Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany, presents the last few weeks of its exhibition of a selection of Lucian Freud’s work featuring the animals that he was so fond of. The show includes many early drawings and works from private collections that are on display for the first time ever.

This autumn and winter, the Courtauld Gallery will be showing an exhibition of Peter Lanyon’s ‘gliding paintings’, made towards the end of his career when the Cornish artist took up gliding as a new way of experiencing his home landscape.

A retrospective exhibition of the work of Lucian Freud opens at the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna on 8 October. The works, selected with the help of the artist before his death in July 2011, are from throughout Freud’s artistic career – a period of almost seventy years – and will explore Freud’s interest in historical art and artists such as Dürer, Holbein, Titian and Velasquez, amongst others.  Lucian Freud: In Private, an exhibition of photographs of Freud in his studio taken by David Dawson, will run concurrently at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, and includes images of the artist at work which have never been shown before.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.khm.at/en/visit/exhibitions/lucian-freud/
http://www.freud-museum.at/cms/index.php/special-exhibition.html

Modern Art Press is delighted to announce that The Company of Artists by Charles Saumarez-Smith has been nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2012/13.

Modern Art Press is delighted to announce that William Nicholson: catalogue raisonné of the oil paintings has been shortlisted for the 2013 Historians of British Art Book Prize, in the Multi-Author category.  The prize is awarded by the Historians of British Art for the best books published on British art and architecture.