William J. O'Brien

Cleanse, Fold and Manipulate

2007

Paul M. Smith (b. 1969) Make My Night, 1998 RA4 colour print, aluminium mounted Edition 1 of 5, from a series of 12 Signed, dated and numbered verso 71 x 104.1 cm. Provenance: Paul ...

Patrick Lichfield (1939-2005) Officially Thomas Patrick John Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield Guard and Tortoise, c. 1960 Gelatin silver print 38.2 x 26.5 cm. Provenance: Patrick Lichfield, who gifted to Hugh Myddelton Biddulph (1995-2021); Passed to Gaia Servadio (1938-2021); By descent to Orlando Mostyn-Owen (b. 1973); Private Collection, United Kingdom. A young man crouches on a rocky outcrop, approached by a small tortoise. He wears an archetypal service uniform, his jacket cuffs with bands of gold braiding, and polished brass buttons. His banded cap is of a sort later appropriated from the military for use in private service, and his loose socks and mud-spattered brogues remind of British schoolboys. A distant arched structure can be seen beyond, perhaps a small bridge over water. The photograph was taken by Lichfield on a visit to the Empty Quarter with his lifelong friend Hugh Myddelton Biddulph, of Chirk Castle, Wales. The visit was one of Lichfield’s earliest to the Middle East, which he would revisit throughout his career. The pair travelled through the region on a Mini Moke, carrying basic supplies and sleeping in a teepee. The photograph was left after Myddelton’s death to his second wife Gaia Servadio, the eccentric Italian journalist, writer, and first mother-in-law to Boris Johnson. After her death in 2021, it passed to her artist son Orlando Mostyn-Owen, and later into a private British collection. Patrick Lichfield was born in 1939, the son of Thomas Anson, Viscount Anson, and Anne Bowes-Lyon, later Princess Anne of Denmark. After seven years in the Grenadier Guards, Lichfield began his career as a photographer’s assistant in 1962 to Kasterine and Michael Wallis, after which he earned a five-year contract with American Vogue. He benefited greatly from his access to the royal family, since Queen Elizabeth was his maternal first cousin. In 1981 he took the official photograph for the wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Although best known for his portraits of the royal family, Lichfield’s celebrity portraits included Yves Saint Laurent, Jane Birkin, Cecil Beaton, David Hockney, Kate Bush, Ian McKellen, Joan Collins, Joanna Lumley...

Matt Mitros was born in Philadelphia, PA. Upon completing his BFA at Penn State University, he was an Artist-In-Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts as well as the Archie B...

"Cotton" Wall Sculpture 71" x 59" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now lives and works in Moscow. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: The State Tretyakov Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia The Moscow Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow, Russia The Saatchi Collection, London, England The Arctic and Antarctic Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia The Freud Museum of Dreams, St. Petersburg, Russia SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2017 I’ve been abducted hundreds of times! Palazzo Nani Bernardo. 2016 I've been abducted hundreds of times! Triangle gallery, Moscow 2014 Autotrans NG. Zarya art center. Vladivostok 2010 Heavy Patients, Rabouan Mousson Gallery 2009 Apocalypse, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow Art Moscow, Triumph Gallery Banality and Eternity', Triumph Gallery Gosha for Kids, Triumph Gallery The Adventures of Robin Hood, Paradise Row, London 2008 Dead Souls...