Osborne Samuel - Modern British Art Exhibition & Masterpiece 2016
3 Video Views·Aug 11, 2025
A highlight of the London summer season is the exhibition of top quality Modern British art at Osborne Samuel Gallery of Mayfair.
At the gallery and at the Masterpiece show in Chelsea the show features painting, sculpture and prints by artists including HENRY MOORE, LYNN CHADWICK, LUCIAN FREUD, BEN NICHOLSON AND BRIDGET RILEY.
At Masterpiece the show includes masterworks by MARC QUINN, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE and KWANG YOUNG CHUN. The film also features interviews with gallery Directors Gordon Samuel and Peter Osborne.
Hello and welcome to Osborne Samuel Gallery. We're here at 23A Bruton Street, which runs
between Barclay Square and Bond Street here in the heart of Mayfair. The exhibition, of
which you're going to get a brief tour, is of modern British art. It's an annual exhibition
that we have. It's accompanied by a hard copy book catalogue, and also we do an e-catalogue,
which you will find online on our website, www.osbornesamuel.com. Around me, to my right,
you can see a painting by the late John Craxton of a seated figure. It's a gouache on paper.
On my left, a sculpture by Lynne Chadwick. It's Conjunction 5 of 1958, bronze. As I look
around the room here, we have Peter Kinley, whose estate we represent. Next to him, the
constructivist artist Malcolm Hughes. As you walk through the gallery, you will see other
works by John Craxton, and you will see Alan Reynolds. We specialise in the work of Lynne
Chadwick and, of course, Henry Moore, of which you will see more as you see our standard
what we do, it's also important that we bring the works we deal in to a wider audience,
and the art fairs play a central part in that. The Masterpiece Show in London in June and July
is now one of the most important things we do. The Masterpiece is like nothing else. It's like
no other show in the world. It's a collection of treasures of different kinds, not just
paintings and sculpture that we deal in. Also, you can see jewellery, you can see antiques,
you can see furniture. There's even a boat here for sale. So we spend a lot of time
building a mini gallery here in Chelsea, and that takes time, attention, lovely furniture,
the services of a designer. A lot of creativity goes into building the set, and then we dress
the set with our best pictures and our best sculptures by the artists who people recognise,
and in some cases, artists who people don't recognise will be seeing for the first time.
The show runs in the gallery until the end of July, and after Masterpiece finishes,
we'll put it all back together again in the gallery. Also, our website has full information
about everything in the show. Contact us for information. A lovely catalogue has been done
for the show, which we're happy to send anywhere in the world, or just get in touch with us if
you've got questions about our artists and the things that we deal in.