500 Years of Drawing
Trois Crayons at No.9 Cork St
Exhibitors:
Didier Aaron / London, New York, Paris
Abbott and Holder / London
Galerie De Bayser / Paris
Christopher Bishop Fine Art / New York
Galerie Chaptal / Paris
Ambroise Duchemin / Paris
Day & Faber / London
Enrico Frascione / Florence
Galerie Lowet De Wotrenge / Antwerp
Nathalie Motte Masselink / Paris
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art / London
Den Otter Fine Art / Rotterdam
Sabrier & Paunet / Paris
Benjamin Peronnet Fine Art / Paris
Galerie Ratton-Ladrière / Paris
Nicolas Schwed / Paris
John Swarbrooke Fine Art / London
This Summer, we are delighted to be collaborating with London Art Week for the Summer 2024 event to present an exciting venture dedicated to Works on Paper within the broader London Art Week programme. We are hosting a drawings hub at No. 9 Cork Street, Frieze’s permanent exhibition space in London, with a group exhibition dedicated to works on paper presented by acclaimed international drawing dealers. The drawings hub will also feature highlights from other London Art Week participants.
Open to the public from 28 June to 5 July (10 am to 6 pm), the hub offers a rich programme of events and dedicated talks with curators and experts. 17 galleries from 6 countries will exhibit over 150 drawings, ranging from Old Master through to modern and contemporary, including works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pierre Bonnard, Simon Bussy, Battista Franco, Thomas Gainsborough, Domenico Gnoli, Guercino, Gwen John, G.B. Tiepolo, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Andy Warhol, Jean-Antoine Watteau & many more.
The events programme includes two on-site lectures, a panel discussion and an off-site visit to the Courtauld Gallery’s prints & drawings study room. All events are free, but advanced registration is required. Event descriptions and details are available below and registration is now open via the links provided.
Events:
Monday, 1st July, 16:00
Grant Lewis, Milein Cosman project curator at the British Museum and co-curator of the ongoing exhibition ‘Michelangelo: the last decades’, explores the Renaissance master’s late drawings.
Tuesday, 2nd July, 16:00
ArtTactic, industry leaders in art market research, will be hosting a panel featuring a range of voices from the world of drawing to discuss the market of drawings within the broader collecting landscape, including changing collecting habits, influence of the digital landscape and other trends we are seeing. Using ArtTactic’s latest report on the Old Masters Market, with a special focus on Old Master Drawings as the jumping off point, Megan Locke (ArtTactic) will moderate a lively panel discussion between esteemed members of the community
Wednesday 3rd July, 16:00
Towards a new catalogue of Raphael’s drawings at the Ashmolean Museum: challenges and discoveries
Angelamaria Aceto, researcher in Italian drawings at the Ashmolean Museum, delves into the exciting new discoveries made in the production of the Ashmolean’s first comprehensive catalogue of the Raphael drawings in its collection.
Friday 5th July, 15:00
Courtauld Gallery’s Prints & Drawings Study Room Visit
A guided visit to the Courtauld Gallery's Prints & Drawings Study Room with Ketty Gottardo, Martin Halusa Senior Curator of Drawings. A rare opportunity to go behind the scenes at the Courtauld Gallery and examine up-close a range of known and lesser-known drawings from the Italian, French and Northern drawings from the 16th to 18th centuries from the Courtauld’s extensive graphic collection.
Please email tom@troiscrayons.art to sign up. Attendance is limited to 15 spaces.
Image Credits:
WA1846.201 Raphael, ‘Recumbent Figure of a Soldier’. Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
D.1978.PG.92 Jacopo Pontormo, ‘Seated youth’ (recto). Photo © The Courtauld, London.
1895,0915.509 Michelangelo, ‘Christ on the Cross between the Virgin and St John’. Image © The Trustees of the British Museum.
