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Edward Burra at Pallant House, Chichester, 22nd October 2011-19th February 2012

The Dance of Death by Simon Martin

 

Apollo Magazine, January 2012

 

Edward Burra at Pallant House, Chichester, 20th October 2011-19th February 2012

Troubled Voyages by Andrew Graham-Dixon

 

The Sunday Telegraph, 15th January 2012

 

 

 

Pavilion of Art & Design London, 2010


Showcasing Modern Masters by Souren Melikian


Weekend Arts, International Herald Tribune, 16th October 2010


'...Nowhere else would you gaze at some unforgettable Nicolas de Stael paintings of 1953 (Alexander Corcoran, who runs Lefevre London has one...'


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TEFAF 2010

Kunstmarkt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Saturday 13th March 2010

 

(Reproduction of Composition by Yves Tanguy)

 

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Pavilion of Art & Design London, 2009

Hidden harmonies of art and design by Souren Melkian

 

International Herald Tribune, Weekend Arts, October 16th 2009

 

'...Add a handful of works adorned by world-famous signatures. Alexander Corcoran who runs the Lefevre Gallery in London, has a dazzling gouache study for a "Caryatid" painted by Modigliani around 1913, and an important Nicolas de Stael quasi-abstract landscape, "Hills at Agrigente" dating from 1954..."

 

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Pavilion of Art & Design London, 2009

Highlights


Style Makeover by Susan Moore
Financial Times, October 11th 2009

 

A chair you can actually sit on by Helen Kirwan-Taylor

The Wall Street Journal, No.180, October 16-18th 2009

 

Gauging the art market in London & Paris by Nazanin Lankarini

International Herald Tribune, October 15th 2009

 

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Philippe Anthonioz

15th November – 14th December 2007

 

Alchemist’s Art by Liz Elliot

House & Garden, January 2008

 

‘…That the Lefevre gallery-which specialises in modern and impressionist paintings, drawing and sculpture-should choose for the first time to exhibit furniture, is testament to the quality and individuality of Philippe’s work, which has been commissioned by collectors and designers from all over the world…’

 

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Damien Elwes: Creative Spaces

6th June-4th July 2008

 

Market News by Colin Gleadell

The Daily Telepgraph, 3rd June 2008

 

‘One of the most sought-after British artists in America returns to London this week…'

 

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Edward Burra 1905-1976 A Centenary Exhibition

11th May -17th June 2005

 

Potent Venom by John Spurling

Spectator, 21st May 2005

 

‘Everything looks menacing,’ Edward Burra once told the Tate’s director Sir John Rothenstein. ‘I’m always expecting something calamitous to happen.’ This was late in Burra’s career, when by then his well-known and characteristic figure paintings had mostly given way to landscapes and still lifes, though without any diminution in their imaginative power or their peculiar sense of humorous unease….’

 

‘…In this centenary exhibition at the Lefevre –now an almost secret gallery identified only by a brass plate beside the front door-where he showed regularly from 1952 until his death in 1976-there is a fine selection of paintings from the late 1920s to the early 1970’s….’

 

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Alberto Giacometti: Paintings & Drawings from Private Collections’

November 17th-December 15th 2004

 

Scored with Anxiety by Serena Davis

Daily Telegraph, 1st December 2004

 

‘An exhibition in a new space near Cork Street seeks to help rectify the balance. It is the first staged in England to offer the chance to examine examples of Giacometti’s paintings, and some drawings, alone.

 

It is a small show, only 21 works from the last 20 years of his life, hung in the airy upper rooms of Thomas Gibson Fine Art and Lefevre Fine Art, two leading modern-art dealerships who recently formed a partnership.’

 

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