The Mystery of Appearance

7 Dec 2011-18 Feb 2012

Overview

Conversations between ten British post-war painters. Haunch of Venison London presents an exhibition of ten of Britain's most important post-war painters, revealing their influence on each other and examining their legacy.The Mystery of Appearance is a fresh appraisal of ten artists - Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Patrick Caulfield, William Coldstream, Lucian Freud, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff and Euan Uglow - whose profound work has shaped our understanding of contemporary picture-making. This display includes over forty paintings and drawings, including several borrowed from public collections, among them Francis Bacon's Pope I 1951 from Aberdeen Art Gallery and Richard Hamilton's Whitley Bay 1965 from Birmingham City Art Gallery, and others like Frank Auerbach's Primrose Hill, Winter Sunshine 1962-64 and Euan Uglow's Nude, Lady C 1959-60 which have not been seen in public for decades.