The Gentleman Magazine Issue 14 | April 2019 | Page 44

A MARQUEE FULL OF FINE ART AND ANTIQUES AND
A HOUSE FULL OF THE COUNTRY'S ART TREASURES
Clare Trenchard's lifesize bronze Wolf I and Wolf II prowl outside Petworth House, limited editions of 7, £20,000 each from
Flying Colours Gallery
The annual Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair takes place
in the grounds of Petworth House, alongside the market town
of Petworth, in West Sussex from Friday 10 to Sunday 12 May
2019, for the fifth successive year. Organised by The Antiques
Dealers Fair Limited, some 50 expert dealers are gathering
from around the country, all bringing their finest wares for
collectors, interior designers and discerning members of the
public, who can enjoy all that the stunning location has to offer.
A wide range will be available to browse and buy: the finest
period furniture, jewellery, paintings, silver, sculpture, lighting,
vintage watches, clocks, ceramics, glass, including art pieces, and
other works of art from the ancient to the contemporary. The
majority of the exhibitors are members of the UK's two leading
associations for professional art and antiques dealers - BADA
and LAPADA The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers.
Art for sale includes a signed Marilyn announcement card
by Andy Warhol for the exhibition 'Andy Warhol: A Print
Retrospective, November 21, 1981' published by Castelli Gallery,
New York, 1981 and selling for around £15,000 from Haynes
Fine Art - London & Cotswolds. Andy Warhol’s Marilyns are
among the most iconic and influential images in post-war art.
By contrast, Ottocento has Still Life with Lobster and Lemon,
an oil on canvas attributed to Flemish artist Joris Van Son
(1623-1667), £31,000. A selection of Victorian landscapes,
marine and figurative paintings for sale from Cambridge
Fine Art include Britannia racing Lulworth, a busy day in the
Solent by John J Holmes (b.1938), signed, oil on canvas, £3,300.
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Animals depicted in art abound at this year's fair including a
cold painted bronze Lapin by Franz Xavier Bergman (1861-
1936), c.1900, £5,750 on the stand of antique and contemporary
sculpture specialist Garret & Hurst Sculpture. Looming around
the corner are lifesize bronze wolves by Clare Trenchard
(b.1956), £20,000 each on the Flying Colours Gallery stand.
On Moncrieff-Bray Gallery's stand is a lifesize Mountain Goat,
made from scrap metal, by Helen Denerley, priced at £16,000.
Another lifesize piece is an exquisite 18 carat white gold and
diamond dragonfly brooch with cabochon ruby eyes, £8,950
from Greenstein Antiques. Not quite lifesize is a pair of silver
budgerigar pepperettes with original glass eyes, made by
George Brace, hallmarked London 1906, £2,950 from T Robert.
, Security in Motion”