Bernard Jacobson Gallery deals in modern and contemporary British and international art. The gallery is currently based in Cork Street, London.
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Bernard Jacobson Gallery was founded in 1969, specialising in publishing contemporary prints by artists including Robyn Denny, Lucien Freud, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff, Richard Smith, Ed Ruscha and William Tillyer. By the mid-1970s, Jacobson began to deal in paintings and sculpture.
The early 1980s saw the gallery open branches in Los Angeles and New York, expanding their range of international artists to include West Coast artists such as Joe Goode and Larry Bell, as well as modern British masters such as Ivon Hitchens, Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, and Graham Sutherland.
From 1997, the gallery moved more firmly into American and international art, with shows of artists including Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons and Frank Stella. Recent years have seen the gallery continue to expand in this direction, with shows by American artists including Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann and Shirley Kaneda, European painters Bram Bogart, and Pia Fries, and British artists: Sir Phillip King and Sir Anthony Caro, and Harold Cohen, William Tillyer, Bruce McLean, Nicholas Pope and Marc Vaux.
In 2004, the gallery re-opened at its current address at 6 Cork in London's Mayfair, uniting Bernard Jacobson Graphics and Bernard Jacobson Gallery under one roof. Since then, the gallery has held major exhibitions including a two-part examination of Robert Motherwell's Open Series (which provided the largest showing of the artist's work in the UK since the 1978 retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London) [1], a selection of new works by former President of the Royal Academy, Phillip King, a selection of works from Helen Frankenthaler's personal collection[2] and Bruce McLean's first London showing of new paintings in over fifteen years, also featuring a 'New, Live, Talking Sculpture'.
More recently in 2010, the gallery hosted a four-part exhibition series devoted to the work of North Yorkshire based artist William Tillyer[1] . The Tillyer season marked an unprecedented commitment by a commercial gallery to the work of a single artist[3]. In the same year, the gallery held the first UK exhibition of new work by French Painter Pierre Soulages, for over thirty years. The exhibition followed on the tail of a major Soulages retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou [1], and was received with huge success in London[2] . New geometrical works by British artist Marc Vaux were also on show in the exhibition New Paintings: Triptychs and Ovals[3] in conjunction with his display at the Tate Britain.
2011 has seen the gallery open a new space in New York on East 71st Street with an inaugural exhibition entitled 60 Years of British art, followed by 21 Americans, showing work by American artists including Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery regularly participates in international art fairs, such as Art Brussels, Pavilion of Art and Design and Art Basel.