Special Events
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
At the Pyms Gallery, Mayfair
11 Jan – 8 Feb
An exhibition of paintings and pastels by the renowned Victorian watercolourist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon.
All 37 of Brabazon’s watercolours and pastels featured will be auctioned in support of the Tricycle, following a generous donation from art collector and philanthropist Al Weil.
TO BID: Email Zoe@tricycle.co.uk to bid for any of the paintings below. Deadline: 20 Feb 2012. All bids will be acknowledged.
Artwork For Auction
Photos taken by Pia Jamie.
Click here to read Harry Eyre’s article on ‘an exemplary tale of philanthropy’ in the Financial Times
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon was a largley self-taught Victorian artist who has produced some of the most personal, fervent and instinctive watercolours of the 19th-Century. The youngest son of an aristocratic Irish family, Brabazon travelled widely and spent much of his time capturing stunning, foreign landscapes.
Brabazon favoured the use of tinted, pre-wetted paper, which allowed his vivid colours to diffuse and mingle on the page. His economical use of rapid and unedited brush strokes highlight the brevity of his process. No Brabazon is ever laboured, and his works were usually completed in under an hour. However, his paintings require careful study to appreciate the suggestiveness of his technique.
His broad style is closest to early 19th-Century plein-air painters but he made remarkable advances in this field by combining minimal palettes and strongly abstracted designs, linking him as well to the more progressive English artists of the late 19th-Century.
Now hailed as Turner’s rival as a colourist, Brabazon didn’t exhibit his work until the age of 71, when he shot to fame with his highly effective and innovative style.
The exhibition will be shown at the Pyms Gallery on Mount Street, London W1 from 11 January – 8 February 2012.
