A friend describes Geoffrey’s Venice studio, a microcosm of high Bohemia as: ‘ an impressive, vast and ancient palace, which opens that heart of the Giudecca, actually a working class district in the city, to a world of visiting connoisseurs and celebrities, the curious and the blasé, the lively and amusing. ‘
Paintings he calls ‘Theatrical Pieces’ depict an eternal cabaret atmosphere, a sense of ‘being underground in some secret basement’, fantasy pictures ‘playing upon the reputation of Venice as a place of excess, and the fin de siècle obsessions of sex and death.’.
Book launch to coincide with the exhibition: GEOFFREY HUMPHRIES: PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS FROM THE VENICE STUDIO (Scala Arts &Heritage Publishers Ltd) with introduction and interview by Jackie Wullschlager, and essays from Colin Wiggins, Eric Denker and Janet Todd.
Janet Todd (former President of Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge: ‘I saw that the studio and its objects were crucial presences in the frame, even becoming the main subject.’
Exhibition: Geoffrey Humphries
Dates: 26th September until 12th October 2017
Location: The Osborne Studio Gallery
2 Motcomb St, Knightsbridge,
London
SW1X 8JU
Entry: Free admission to the gallery
Website: www.osg.uk.com
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