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2013 Vision & Ecstasy: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s St. Francis. Foreword
Texts by Helen Langdon and Jonathan Bober.
Hardback catalogue, 84 pages, 20 colour plates and 47 black and white illustrations.
£15 or $25 + p. & p. eventeen years have swiftly passed since I issued one of our more substantial catalogues (360 pages!) with
2014 Fatal Attractions: Sex and Avarice in Dosso Dossi’s Jupiter and Semele the deliberately cinematographic title 2001: An Art Odyssey. This was intended to salute and commemorate
Text by Beverly Brown. the beginning of a new millennium. The Preface discussed the Odyssey, Homer, Horace and the transience
Hardback catalogue, 84 pages, 46 colour plates and 26 black and white illustrations. of human existence. Some thirteen year later, in 2014, we published a catalogue on Dosso Dossi’s
£18 or $30 + p. & p. Scommanding representation of Jupiter and Semele. This was accompanied by a weighty and extremely

2015 Blasco de Grañén erudite essay by Beverly Brown and the catalogue was titled Fatal Attraction. Some months later I was hailed by a
Texts by Judith Sobre, Nuria Ortiz Valero and Josep Maria Gudiol i Ricart colleague while innocently ruminating upon the future ambling through St James’s on my way to the gallery. This
96 pages, 26 colour plates and 7 black and white illustrations. at an hour when more diligent workers might be taking their elevenses. He posed the question enquiring when he
£18 or $30 + p. & p. might hope to see a sequel, entitled Basic Instinct, so as to complete our run of blockbuster inspired titles. I replied,

2015 Juan de Sevilla ‘Probably never,’ for the proposition had not even occurred to me nor had I an appropriate theme to hand. Yet,
Text by Judith Sobre only three years later, here we are. Mildly tongue in cheek we have proposed an alternative to Homer’s homily
82 pages, 24 colour plates and 4 black and white illustrations. extolling marital fidelity. Were not the ancient deities and those in their entourage renowned for their marital
£18 or $30 + p. & p. infidelity and dalliance? Did they not indulge their basic instincts? Thus we here propose that consideration might,

2015 Paris Bordon: A ‘Bella’ with a Mirror: Vanitas, Virtue or Vice? perhaps, also be given to accounts by Hesiod, Pausanius, Duris and Servius, for all of us surely know the potential
Text by Peter Humfrey, frailty of human nature when tempted, and yes, both Calypso and Circe were fine specimens of womanhood! Who
36 pp., 15 illustrations. could blame Ulysses if he erred?
£10 or $ 16 + p. & p.

2016 Gustave Courbet For a gallery specialising in Italian painting first and foremost I am surprised to find that down the years we
Text by James H. Rubin have handled no less than five paintings by Jacques Jordaens. Two are recorded here in this catalogue with the
72 pages and 60 colour illustrations. Calypso being a new unpublished work. One more, a cartoon for The meeting of Ulysses and Nausicaä, is also here
£18 or $30 + p. & p. illustrated as Fig.9 on p.36. A fourth representing Moses Striking the Rock was also a cartoon nine feet wide and
2017 Guido Reni was sold to The Getty Museum in 1979, while the fifth of St Ivo, the patron saint of lawyers receiving petitions in his
Texts by Patrick Matthiesen & D. Stephen Pepper office was sold by a colleague in 2005. Unquestionably the greatest of these is the Hermes at Calypso’s Table which
76 pages and 58 illustrations we present in this catalogue.
£18 or $30 + p. & p.
In my Foreword to the 2001 catalogue I ‘tweeted’ at some length about the changes, for the worse I opined, in
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the art market since the 1960s. Much of the blame I laid at the door of the duopoly of auction houses which I felt
were crushing the market and rendering it an ever less friendly place more akin to Wall Street than former times
in Old Bond Street. To indulge in yet another cinematographic simile, ‘the wolves’ of King Street and York Avenue

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