500 Years of Drawing
No. 9 Cork Street, London
June 28 - July 5
In collaboration with London Art Week Trois Crayons presents ‘500 Years of Drawing’, a new venture dedicated to Works on Paper.
From 28 June to 5 July No. 9 Cork Street, Frieze’s permanent exhibition space in London, will be transformed into a ‘drawings hub’ with a group exhibition dedicated to works on paper presented by acclaimed international drawing dealers.
17 galleries from 6 countries will exhibit over 150 drawings, ranging from Old Master through to modern and contemporary, including works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pierre Bonnard, Simon Bussy, Battista Franco, Thomas Gainsborough, Domenico Gnoli, Guercino, Gwen John, G.B. Tiepolo, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Andy Warhol, Jean-Antoine Watteau & many more.
Freely accessible to the public from 10 am to 6 pm each day, the hub offers a rich programme of events and dedicated talks with curators and experts.
Exhibitors
Events
Monday, 1st July, 16:00
Grant Lewis, Milein Cosman project curator at the British Museum and co-curator of the ongoing exhibition ‘Michelangelo: the last decades’, explores the Renaissance master’s late drawings.
Tuesday, 2nd July, 16:00
ArtTactic, industry leaders in art market research, will be hosting a panel featuring a range of voices from the world of drawing to discuss the market of drawings within the broader collecting landscape, including changing collecting habits, influence of the digital landscape and other trends we are seeing. Using ArtTactic’s latest report on the Old Masters Market, with a special focus on Old Master Drawings as the jumping off point, Megan Locke (ArtTactic) will moderate a lively panel discussion between esteemed members of the community
Wednesday 3rd July, 16:00
Towards a new catalogue of Raphael’s drawings at the Ashmolean Museum: challenges and discoveries
Angelamaria Aceto, researcher in Italian drawings at the Ashmolean Museum, delves into the exciting new discoveries made in the production of the Ashmolean’s first comprehensive catalogue of the Raphael drawings in its collection.
Friday 5th July, 15:00
Courtauld Gallery’s Prints & Drawings Study Room Visit
Guided visit to the Courtauld Gallery's Prints & Drawings Study Room with Ketty Gottardo, Martin Halusa Senior Curator of Drawings. A rare opportunity to go behind the scenes at the Courtauld Gallery and examine up-close a range of known and lesser-known drawings from the Italian, French and Northern drawings from the 16th to 18th centuries from the Courtauld’s extensive graphic collection.
Please email tom@troiscrayons.art to sign up to the visit. Attendance is limited to 15 spaces.
