AUSTIN/DESMOND FINE ART
Austin/Desmond Fine Art was founded in 1979, initially operating from stables near Ascot and in 1986 opening their first gallery at Sunninghill. Austin/Desmond moved to its current location in Bloomsbury in 1988. The gallery’s primary focus over the past thirty years has been in Modern British art, promoting and exhibiting aspects of a genre that had become neglected and unfashionable. Their exhibitions and catalogues have mirrored a gradual reassessment of this period, making it an attractive option for new and more experienced collectors alike. Austin/Desmond has specialised in work associated with the St Ives group of artists, including Ben Nicholson (1894-1982), Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), Roger Hilton (1911-1975), Paul Feiler (1918-2013), Margaret Mellis, Terry Frost (1915-2003) and Peter Lanyon (1918-1964). Selected artists who have been the subject of one-person shows are Prunella Clough, Francis Douglas Davison, Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), David Jones (1895-1974), Michael Rees, Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) and Alfred Wallis (1855-1942). Over the last years the gallery has participated in major European and American art fairs focusing on International Post-war art and the galley has formed an important collection of Concrete and Neo-Concrete art from Latin America. Suffolk painters who works were exhibited with Austin/Desmond Fine Art include David Carr and Telfer Stokes.
Website: https://austindesmond.com