Anna and Brian Haughton, the London-based international art and antiques Fair organizers have announced dealers and highlights for Art Antiques London, which will run from 12th-18th June 2015 in Kensington Gardens, London. It will be the 6th edition of this acclaimed Fair which takes place in a purpose-built pavilion in Kensington Gardens. 

Set in the beautiful parkland of Kensington Gardens, the Fair’s Pavilion is positioned next to the Albert Memorial and opposite the Royal College of Art and The Royal Albert Hall. Art Antiques London is the first fair to take place near the historic site of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Art Antiques London brings together more than 60 exciting international art and antiques dealers offering exceptional works of art, among them many of museum quality. Furniture, paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, glass, clocks, watches, jewellery, objets de vertu, silver, antiquities and Asian art are among the many different categories included and for sale.

After a very successful outing last year, a spectacular selection of British/Modern Paintings and Works of Art will be exhibited at this year's fair  by some of the top specialist dealers in their fields. 

Three Highlights:

1. Henry Moore
DRAPED RECLINING FIGURE, 1956

Bronze with black/brown patina; edition of 9 + 2
Approximate size: 7 x 15.9 cms 
Recorded in the database of the Henry Moore Foundation 
Provenance:
Private collection, USA
Exhibited by Goodman Fine Art at Art Antiques London 

Draped Reclining Figure 1956 is part of Moore’s greatest body of work which includes Draped Reclining Figure, 1952-3, Warrior with Shield, 1953, Falling Warrior 1956/7 and, most directly, Reclining Figure No.2, 1953 together with the almost identical Draped Reclining Figure, 1957.

It is also an important work in Moore’s development of the shelter drawing figures, which brought him such great acclaim during and after the war. These timeless, sepulchral figures demonstrate not only a war time sense of anxiety and awareness, but also the avant-garde distortions of the human body which found acceptance as an expression of the common tragedy of war. 
Moore’s production of reclining figures was very modest in the 1950s and this is a rare opportunity to own such a piece. 

2. Alan Davie (1921-2014)
MOON MAIDEN NO 2 
Watercolour and gouache
55cms x 76 cms
Signed, titled and dated 1968
Presented by Art Antiques London exhibitor  Vanessa Clewes Salmon Art

Alan Davie once compared his paintings to jazz music, saying "there's a connection between jazz and what I do with a brush, in that it seems improvised and random." Alan Davie has been called one of Scotland’s greatest modern artists. In his obituary in The Daily Telegraph he was referred to as ‘A superstar of British art, feted by Pollock, Rothko and Hockney.’ Influenced by music, especially jazz (Davie played professionally for many years), Caribbean imagery (he regularly spent time in St Lucia), African sculpture and Zen Buddhism, his explosive and colourful brushwork work blended mythology, magic and village folklore. Championing the primitive, he remarked how disparate cultures have adopted common symbols in their visual languages. Davie saw his role as a shaman or inspired soothsayer, creating a synthesis of mythologies from a variety of cultures, in a world now devoid of its own village myths. 

It was a chance encounter with Peggy Guggenheim the renowned art collector, bohemian and socialite that launched his career. Today Davie’s work is very much in demand and can be seen in major public collections such as Tate Britain and Tate Modern UK, Metropolitan Museum New York USA, Museum of Fine Art Boston USA, Foundation Maeght France, Cobra Museum Netherlands, Peggy Guggenheim Venice Italy, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art etc as well as numerous international private collections.

3. Henry Moore  1943

THREE STANDING FIGURES
Artist stamp signature
Screenprint in colours
157 x 117 cms
 Provenance:  Asher Family Collection, USA
 Commissioned and produced posthumously in 1989 by Zika Ascher, New York
Edition:  43/65
Exhibited by Gray Modern & Contemporary Art

Linda & Zika Ascher were true visionary’s and introduced many Modern Artists to new audiences worldwide by using their artwork for textile designs for the home.  The Aschers worked particularly closely with Henry Moore.  Many of these original fabric designs are in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Henry Moore Foundation.  Moore designed only four large scale wall Panels for Ascher between 1943 and 1949.  Unlike the repeat fabric patterns, the Panels were produced as limited edition works of Art.  They were shown first in 1948 at the Lefevre Gallery, alongside textiles by Henri Matisse and later shown ‘on tour’ across the USA by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.  Zika Ascher produced ‘Three Seated Figures’ posthumously in 1989 as an edition of 65.