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Cambridge
Book & Print Gallery
CHRISTMAS
2009
Watercolours, prints, ceramics and illustrations
until 23 December 2006
Open Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm.
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Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
49, Newnham Road
Cambridge CB3 9EY
Telephone/Facsimile: (44) + 1223 694264
Email: Cambridgeprints@aol.com |
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St
Ives and Contexts, 1901-2008
CAMBRIDGE
BOOK & PRINT GALLERY
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October - 8 November 2008
Jack Pender (1918 –1998) Moored boat,
watercolour and gouache, signed
St Ives and Contexts, 1901-2008’
at Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
This colourful show focuses on the St Ives art colony
on the north coast of Cornwall, encompassing more than a century of diverse
and inspiring art. Major international names such as Christopher Wood,
Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, and Patrick Heron mingle with lesser-known
artists, with painting, drawing, and print-making all well represented.
Also included is a fine selection of ceramics by Trevor Corser, of Leach
Pottery fame.
14th October – 8th November.
For further information, please contact Charlotte Arnold
at Cambridgeprints@aol.com or on 01223 694 264.
(Catalogue)
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Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
49, Newnham Road
Cambridge CB3 9EY
Telephone/Facsimile: (44) + 1223 694264
Email: Cambridgeprints@aol.com |
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Piers
Browne
SONNETS
FOR A SIREN
The
Handmade Book & Show of its Etchings
CAMBRIDGE
BOOK & PRINT GALLERY
15
- 26 April 2008
The artist
will be in the gallery lunchtime on the 15th and from lunchtime till
close on the 26th
"GREAT
SHOALS OF LEAVES..."
Piers Browne, from an Etching about 6 inches high by the artist-poet as
reproduced in Piers' latest large handmade book SONNETS FOR A SIREN, published
by the artist in 2008 in a limited edition of 20.
LAUNCH OF PIERS BROWNE’S
NEW BOOK, SONNETS FOR A SIREN
Cambridge Book & Print Gallery is delighted to announce the launch
of Piers Browne’s new handmade book, Sonnets for a Siren, on Tuesday
15th April 2008. From 16th-26th April the gallery will also play host
to a display of a selection of Piers’ finest etchings from this
and from many of his previous illustrated books.
SONNETS FOR A SIREN took Browne five years to write and illustrate and
contains twenty-seven sonnets on love, infused with themes drawn from
Britain’s rich coastal life and the seas that surround our island.
Browne’s preparatory drawings for the nineteen etchings - both in
colour and black-and-white - that accompany the sonnets were made in some
of Britain’s most celebrated coastal areas, such as Zennor in Cornwall,
Freshwater Bay, Shanklin and Tennyson Down on the Isle of Wight.
Browne’s etchings and paintings have won many well-known admirers
over the years, including Prince Charles and Melvyn Bragg. Indeed, Prince
Charles commented after buying one of Browne’s books: "I find
the etchings hauntingly and evocatively beautiful. In fact, having seen
your work, I hardly dare do any more painting myself."
For further information, please contact Charlotte Arnold at Cambridgeprints@aol.com
or on 01223 694 264.
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Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
49, Newnham Road
Cambridge CB3 9EY
Telephone/Facsimile: (44) + 1223 694264
Email: Cambridgeprints@aol.com |
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Edward
Ardizzone 1900-1979
Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
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May-30 June 2007
Edward Ardizzone.
The Lady Next Door, Watercolour on paper, c. 1974, Signed with initials
Including 24 original pen &
ink drawings and watercolours, as well as a fine group of Curwen Press
prints, 'Edward Ardizzone' at the Cambridge Book & Print Gallery presents
a rare opportunity to see a broad range of the celebrated illustrator's
works, many of them for the very first time outside the pages of the books
that they illustrate.
Eleanor Farjeon's 'The Little
Bookroom' won the prestigious Carnegie Medal and Ardizzone said of his
drawings for the book: "All Childhood is there, all I feel about
childhood in the dim recesses where that part of me still lives."
Ten of Ardizzone's best drawings for 'The Little Bookroom' form the heart
of the exhibition and reveal the illustrator at the very height of his
powers.
Ardizzone's observation of the atmosphere of childhood, of the world conjured
by children's writers for whose books these drawings were commissioned,
was acute, yet the works themselves appeal in their intricacy, intimacy
and beauty equally to children and adults alike.
All original works in the exhibition
date from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Prices range from £150
for the Curwen Press prints to £5,200 for the major watercolour,
'The Lady Next Door.'
For further information and
press images, please contact Charlotte Arnold at Cambridgeprints@aol.com
or on 01223 694 264.
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Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
49, Newnham Road
Cambridge CB3 9EY
Telephone/Facsimile: (44) + 1223 694264
Email: Cambridgeprints@aol.com |
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Cambridge
Book & Print Gallery
DRAWN
FROM LIFE
Works by Modern British
Artists
from Eileen Agar to Fred Yates
6th March - 7th April
Fred Yates (British, b.
1922) La Toscane, Watercolour and crayon on paper, signed and
titled in pencil
(Catalogue/Review)
49, Newnham Road, Cambridge
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Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
49, Newnham Road
Cambridge CB3 9EY
Telephone/Facsimile: (44) + 1223 694264
Email: Cambridgeprints@aol.com |
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Cambridge
Book & Print Gallery
CHRISTMAS
EXHIBITION
of
Watercolours, prints, ceramics and drawings
until 23 December 2006
Open Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm.
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Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
49, Newnham Road
Cambridge CB3 9EY
Telephone/Facsimile: (44) + 1223 694264
Email: Cambridgeprints@aol.com |
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Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
EXHIBITION
of
Russell
Reeve RE, RBA (British, 1895-1970)
Watercolours, prints and drawings
2nd June - 30th June 2006
Open Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5.30pm.
At the Fairground,
Watercolour and crayon on paper, signed by the artist, 37 x 39 cm.
(catalogue)
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Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
49, Newnham Road
Cambridge CB3 9EY
Telephone/Facsimile: (44) + 1223 694264
Email: Cambridgeprints@aol.com |
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2006-2007
Exhibitions
Edward Ardizzone CBE RA
RI (British 1900-1979): a selection of the
artist's original drawings, book related work and prints. (Spring,
2007)
Russell Sidney Reeve RE RBA
(British, 1895-1970): watercolours and drawings.
Robert Sargeant Austin RA PRE
PRWS (British 1895-1973): drawings.
Annual selection of original
work by illustrators
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The 2004 Cambridge Bookfair
The Guildhall, Market Square, Cambridge
Friday 27th February: Noon - 6pm
Saturday 28th February: 10am - 5pm
Along with 64 other specialist book dealers we will be exhibiting a selection
of our books, prints and photographs
during this two-day event.
admission: £1
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May 2003
Exhibition of Watercolours
by Peter Foster (British, b. 1917)
  
17 - 31st May
Private View: Friday 16th May, from 6pm - 8.30pm
The artist will be present to sign copies of his book
Tuesdays - Fridays: 11am -5pm
Wednesdays late viewing until 7pm
Saturdays: 10.30am - 6pm
at the Cambridge Book & Print Gallery, 67 Norfolk Street,
Cambridge
Peter Foster was born in 1919 and educated at Eton and Trinity Hall
College, Cambridge. He was encouraged to paint at an early age and was
taught by Robin Darwin. After the war he qualified as an architect and
was the Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey from 1973-1988.
He has exhibited with the Cambridge Drawing Society, The Norwich Art
Circle, the Huntingdon Art Group and the Royal Academy. In 1989 the
Judd Street Gallery held a major solo exhibition of paintings executed
over a fifty year period. In 2000 a book of his work was published.
Alan Powers. Holiday painter: Watercolours 1935-1998. Peter Foster,
copies of which will be on sale during the exhibition.
Send us an email if you wish to attend the preview and drinks evenings
or want an invite for any event.
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December 2002
Celebrating Illustration 2002
During the month of December, The Cambridge Book & Print Gallery will
be celebrating illustration with a wide array of illustrated books and a
selection of fine original illustrations by a variety of artists. Of note
are original drawings by Edward Ardizzone and John Ward. On a more modern
front, we have an original illustration of "everybody's favourite cloth
cat," the inimitable Bagpuss by his creators Oliver Postgate and Peter
Firmin.
Other illustrations of interest are collages and drawings by the award-winning
Jan Pienkowski for his well-loved tales for children of Meg and Mog.
As well as illustrations by two artists for Rupert the Bear,
Alfred Bestall and John Harrold, and a small inscribed sketch of Captain
Pugwash by John Ryan. We will also have an exciting range of children's
books and copies of all the published books that the illustrations were
prepared for. With prices starting at £80 for framed illustrations
and £10 for books there will be something to suit every budget, enabling
our clients to give a truly original Christmas present this year.
Catalogue and Price list available on the Web in December.
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June 2002
In a Naked Light: Viren Sahai's Drawings from the Nude
Viren Sahai, born in Uttar Pradesh, spent his childhood in northern India
and as a young man worked as a draughtsman in Rangoon, saving money to come
to England and study architecture. Upon his arrival in England, Viren’s
life changed. It was not so much the sudden shift in cultures, climate or
citizenry, but rather the wonderful power of the works of art he saw during
a visit to the Tate Gallery within a few days of his arrival that had the
greatest impact on Viren. Never having been to a museum or an art gallery
before, he was so moved by the works of Henry Moore, Matisse, Turner and
Cézanne he saw there that, determined to pursue a career as an artist, he
enrolled at the Central School of Arts in London.
Viren works across a wide range of media and motifs, from large-scale oil
and acrylic paintings to more intimate and wonderfully assured line drawings
of architectural motifs (see: Discovering a Historic City: Cambridge,
RIBA, 1994); from earlier inspired by the landscapes of England, France
and India to a later preoccupation with the human figure. Over the last
fifteen years, Viren has returned to India several times to visit the sculptures
at Khajuraho and Konarak and the frescos in the caves of Ajanta. The abstraction
of the sculptures and the representational quality of the frescoes, created
more than one thousand years ago, continue to mystify and amaze himpresents
a series of intimate and revelatory pencil studies of the nude that the
artist creates on a regular basis to ‘keep his eye in’. These wonderfully
pared-down drawings capture the subtle and constantly changing emotional
landscape of the human figure through the pure use of volumetric line, without
any shadows because of Viren’s belief that shadows and the play of light
on the human form are ephemeral.
Viren had a one-man show while still a student, and this early
success led to the inclusion of his work in a number of group exhibitions,
including the Commonwealth Biennale of Abstract Art on three occasions.
Over the years, he has had four one-man shows in London and has also exhibited
in Paris, Oxford and Cambridge.
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Gallery Reviews
Cambridge Evening News
Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Formally known as prints
JOANNA NORRIS reports on an exhibition of graphic art at a new gallery.
A NEW Cambridge gallery is taking its first fine art steps with
a bold and eclectic juxtaposition of modern masters. Cambridge Book
Auctions and Gallery opened in May with an exhibition of photographs and
is now following the successful opening with its first foray into fine art:
an exhibition including a Matisse Blue Nude and a Warhol Marilyn Monroe
screenprint. Printmaking: Modern Masters opened on Saturday at the
Norfolk Street Gallery and, as well as Matisse and Warhol, includes prints
by Russian-French artist Marc Chagnall and Spaniard Joan Miro. Also
on the walls will be works by experimental British engraver Stanley William
Hayter, who established the Parisian Atelier 17 studio which housed works
by Picasso, Dali and Chagall. It is the Parisian link which loosely
binds the Cambridge exhibition thematically. All were French or worked in
France and were closely associated with a network of experimental printmakers.
A long-time Cambridge resident, Simon said: "I saw the need for regeneration
of Norfolk Street and felt that an art gallery and bookshop would be the
ideal venture, combining the best in colourful, inventive modern art with
antiquarian and first edition modern books." Cambridge Book
& Print Gallery also house and deal in a collection of antique and classic
books, including first editions of T S Eliot, Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene
and Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows. Art and books range in
price from £3 to £600.
* Printmaking: Modern Masters runs until July 21, Cambridge Book & Print
Gallery, 67 Norfolk Street,Cambridge.Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm.
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Review from Adhoc (Cambridge, July 2001)
Preview: Modern Masters at the Cambridge Book &
Print Gallery
If your travels ever take you along Norfolk Street, you'll know that recent
times have seen some changes to this very interesting area. One of its newer
additions is Cambridge Book & Print Gallery, which has a permanent collection
of antiquarian books alongside fine prints, woodcuts, lithographs and photographs,
including some superb old images of Cambridge.
This month sees a very impressive collection of prints from some instantly
recognizable modern masters including Chagall, Matisse, Miro, Lanskoy and
others, so if you are an art lover, or buyer, now's your chance to set your
eyes upon some excellent modern masterpieces, and find out what else is
on offer in the process.
Print-Making: Modern Masters
Cambridge Book & Print Gallery
67 Norfolk Street, T: 361444
Until Saturday 21st July, 10:00 – 18:00
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