Bernard Jacobson Gallery
Bernard Jacobson Gallery is one of the leading dealers in Modern and contemporary British and International art. The gallery is currently based in Cork Street, London, with a sister gallery, Jacobson Howard Gallery, in New York City.
History
Bernard Jacobson Gallery was founded by Bernard Jacobson in 1969, specialising in and publishing contemporary prints by artists including Robyn Denny, Lucien Freud, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff, Richard Smith, Ed Ruscha and William Tillyer. By the mid-1970s having established himself as one of the major dealers in the bouyant international Print boom, Jacobson began to display paintings and sculpture.
The early 1980s saw the gallery open branches in Los Angeles and New York, expanding their range of international artists to include West Coast American Ferus School artists such as Joe Goode and Larry Bell, as well as Modern British masters such as Ivon Hitchens, Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, and Graham Sutherland.
From 1997, the gallery moved more firmly into American and International art, with shows of artists such as Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons and Frank Stella. Recent years have seen the gallery continue to expand in this direction, with shows by American artists from Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler, to Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann or Shirley Kaneda, European painters from Bram Bogart to Pia Fries, and British artists from Phillip King and Anthony Caro to Harold Cohen, William Tillyer, Bruce McLean, Nicholas Pope and Marc Vaux.
In 2004, the gallery opened at its current address at 6 Cork Street, having re-situated from two addresses on nearby Clifford Street, Mayfair. The move allowed Bernard Jacobson Graphics and Bernard Jacobson Gallery, to be united under one roof. Since at the current address the gallery has held major exhibitions including a two-part examination of Robert Motherwell's Open Series, (which provided the largest showing of the artist's work in the UK since the 1978 retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts), London) , a selection of new works by former President of the Royal Academy, Phillip King, a rare selection of works from Helen Frankenthaler's personal collection and Bruce McLean's first London showing of new paintings in over fifteen years, also featuring a 'New, Live, Talking Sculpture'.
The Galleries current (February - June 2010) four-part exhibition series devoted to the work of North Yorkshire based artist William Tillyer, marks an unprecedented commitment by a commercial gallery to the work of a single artist.
In June of this year the gallery is scheduled to hold the first UK exhibition of new work by renowned French Painter, Pierre Soulages, for over thirty years. The exhibition follows on the tail of the major retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou. 1
Artists
Larry Bell
Ronald Bladen
Norman Bluhm
Bram Bogart
Anthony Caro
Harold Cohen
Robyn Denny
Sam Francis
Helen Frankenthaler
Pia Fries
Joe Goode
Howard Hodgkin
Shirley Kaneda
Phillip King
Bruce McLean
Robert Motherwell
Ben Nicholson
Jules Olitski
Larry Poons
Nicholas Pope
Richard Smith
Frank Stella
Graham Sutherland
William Tillyer
Marc Vaux
Tom Wesselmann