Gilden’s Art Gallery is delighted to present our exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest artists of the Twentieth Century – Pablo Picasso.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the artist’s passing and throughout 2023 many institutions and galleries have revisited this master printmaker to engage a new generation with the groundbreaking and iconic imagery of Picasso.  

The spectacular, ‘Composite Figure I, 1949’, is a magnificent highlight of this exhibition belonging to an intense series of close-up female portraits executed in black ink across the full sheet. This work echoes Picasso’s earlier cubist style, but is presented in a bold new manner. 

In terms of the Picasso’s mastery of the linocut medium, ‘The Lady with a Collar, 1962’, is an exceptional example of the reductionist technique. It demonstrates Picasso’s link and indeed desire to be aligned in the long lineage of ‘Spanish Masters’; the collared lady is in fact a portrait of Jacqueline Roque.

The exhibition will open on Thursday 28th September in our Hampstead gallery and a small selection of highlights will also travel to Munich, New York, and Miami over the course of the show.

The catalogue can be viewed below, it is best viewed in two-page view.

Gilden’s Art Gallery is delighted to present a series of works on paper from the Modern Master, Marc Chagall (1887-1985).
This exhibition tells the story of the people, places and themes which inspired Chagall across each decade of his artistic life. The role of books, periodicals and art reviews are wonderfully illustrated by examples spanning several decades. The unquestionable importance of art review and periodicals to the dissemination of 20th Century art is highlighted through Chagall’s collaboration with Aimé Maeght and Efstratios Tériade’ in the publications ‘Derrière le miroir’ and ‘Verve’, respectively. A highlight of this exhibition is an exceptional impression from Chagall’s celebrated series ‘Circus’ from 1967. The vibrancy of the colours demonstrate why Pablo Picasso once quipped “When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is”. Finally, it is an honour to present a selection of works made in collaboration with Charles Sorlier, Chagall’s close friend from the Fernand Mourlot studio and who worked together for almost forty years. We will be thrilled to welcome you to view these works in our Hampstead gallery and a select number of pieces will travel internationally to be viewed in New York and Miami this Autumn.

Gilden’s Art Gallery are delighted to present our Spring exhibition for March-May 2022, ‘Inspired by Nature’. This show focuses on the beauty of the natural world and its enduring source of inspiration for artists across many genres, movements, and periods. The exhibition is divided into three distinct sections: Flora, Fauna, and Landscapes. It comprises etchings, lithographs, screenprints, archival prints, ceramic, drawings, and paintings from twenty-six artists.

We are particularly thrilled to be offering the seven striking largescale works from Alex Katz’s most recent edition, ‘Flowers’, published in 2021. Alongside these monumental works are important examples of the role of landscape art in German Expressionism, such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s, ‘Farmer in Mountainous Forest’, 1920 and Karl Schmidt Rottluff’s, ‘Animated Autumn Landscape’, 1967.

We hope that you enjoy this catalogue and the exhibition hosted in our Hampstead gallery.

40 for 40

Forty works for Forty years of

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We are honoured to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Gilden’s Arts in 2021. On this special occasion we have curated a selection of 40 works for 40 years, which reflect both our passions and the diversity of our collection. Gilden’s Arts was founded in 1981, by Jacob Gildor and is a family run business with his son Ofer Gildor opening Gilden’s Art Gallery in 2006 in Hampstead village. Over the past 40 years Gilden’s has brought a diverse selection of original prints and paintings to art fairs across Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as mounting frequent exhibitions in our Hampstead gallery. With art from movements such as the Ecole de Paris, Eastern European Art, International Modernism, , and American Post-War being brought to clients across the world. It has been so rewarding to assist our clients build their own collections, of which they are passionate. We were delighted that this longstanding commitment to the promotion and collection of original prints was recognised in 2019, when Gilden’s Arts was accepted to the prestigious International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA). For this particular exhibition, 40 for 40, Jacob and Ofer have shared some of their own insights into the pieces that have inspired or captivated them over these last 40 years, and along with Daniela, Diamante and Stephen, have prepared some memorable moments and anecdotes. We hope you will enjoy this exhibition and we are delighted to celebrate this important milestone with our valued clients.

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Gilden’s Art Gallery are delighted to present our new exhibition “Moments in Time’. This reflective show focuses on the individual moments in time, across the history of the twentieth century, that have directly impacted the artists represented. Their names are well-known in the canon of art history, but the opportunity to place works in the context of each artist’s career and the events that surrounded the creation of individual works now has a special resonance. The selected works are either from important years of the artists’ respective careers or are directly linked to a significant moment in the lives of the artists. These works are as diverse as representing personal spaces, how artists encountered circumstances beyond their control, new landscapes, new relationships, and the impact of war.

The global pandemic has touched everyone’s lives and changed how we see our own world. In time, ‘normality’ will return, but we will each carry the impact of this period on our lives, and it will inform our future decisions as well as allow us to re-examine the past. It allows us to look again at familiar artworks and now we can connect to a perhaps a different, deeper meaning that we had not noticed before. The exhibition comprises original lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and screenprints alongside unique works on paper by celebrated masters of 20th Century Art. A plethora of artistic movements are explored through the lens of ‘snapshots’ in time and will be available to view in our Hampstead gallery. Whilst there remain many obstacles in the world, we hope you will draw strength from the resilience of these pieces and the stories that they can tell in order to help us realise that even the pandemic will be only a moment in time.

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This exhibition brings together works on paper spanning 40 years of the artist Sam Francis’ career. It includes lithographs from the important Pasadena Set, examples of the artist’s innovative processes for creating monotypes and wonderful acrylics.

3D EXHIBITION

We are delighted to present a selection of original lithographs, etchings and aquatints, and watercolors from three of the most important Chinese artists of the 20th Century.

Zao Wou-Ki 赵无极 and Chu Teh-Chun 朱德群 flourished in the Parisian art scene and brought immense creative and technical skills to printmaking in France. Whilst Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 became a leading figure of the abstraction movement in New York, renowned for his vibrant watercolours.

3D EXHIBITION

Gilden’s Art Gallery is delighted to present our digital catalogue showcasing a sample of our current selection of important works by German Masters. This includes drawings, paintings, and original prints from both the German Impressionist and German Expressionist movements.

The e-catalogue has been arranged by medium to show the diversity of media employed by the artists. Further to this e-catalogue, a small selection of these artworks have been arranged in a 3D exhibition available through Kunstmatrix, the link to which has been included below alongside this catalogue.

The works are also available to view in person at our London gallery until early November 2020 and a small number will be on view at Cologne Fine Art and Design 2020.

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3D EXHIBITION

Gilden’s Art Gallery are delighted to announce our latest exhibition focussing on the extensive printmaking career of Joan Miró. The exhibition offers an opportunity to explore the many collaborations between the artist and printmaking studios in France and Spain. With works from the 1950s to 1970s, we have a selection of original prints from across the media of etching and aquatint, lithography and carborundum – a technique that became synonymous with Miró. Miró was a dedicated printmaker from early in his artistic career and worked with a multitude of talented printing studios, a small selection of which will be highlighted in this exhibition. We start primarily with the two largest and most established printing houses of Twentieth Century France –Mourlot and Maeght. Further to these major and respected houses, we have original prints from Miró’s longest collaborator Robert Dutrou and a selection of etchings and lithographs from the celebrated Spanish printing houses Sala Gaspar and Polígrafa.

We do hope that you enjoy this introduction to the printing studios that Miró so enjoyed working with in order to realise his artistic visions.

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Gilden’s Art Gallery is delighted to present a series of works on paper from the Modern Master, Marc Chagall (1887-1985). Taking inspiration from the artist’s own biography, “Mein Leben” [My Life], started in 1911 and completed in 1922, the exhibition expands upon the major themes in the artist’s colourful life

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