Frank Auerbach German-British, b. 1931

Tony Bevan, Prunella Clough, John Davies, Derrick Greaves, Nigel Henderson, Leon Kossoff, Edward Middleditch, Peter Phillips, Paula Rego, Walter Richard Sickert, Jack Smith and Aubrey Williams.

The Trussell Trust supports a nationwide network of food banks to provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaigns for change to end the need for food banks in the UK. James Hyman, Gallery Director, said: This year we have presented a series of online fundraising...

Unfortunately, NHS Hospital staff, on the front line in the treatment of patients with Covid-19, are still working without the proper PPE (personal protective equipment), and there remains a shortage of testing kits and ventilators. As everyone pulls together I have been thinking what I can do as an art...

Building on this theme, a central aspect is inspired by Honore de Balzac's great short story, The Unknown Masterpiece (1831). Rather than seeing the story as a message about abstraction, The Human Abstract, seeks to reinsert the figurative aspect. In Balzac's tale, after ten years of labour, Frenhofer unveils his...

Artists whose work is presented include: Frank Auerbach Tony Bevan John Bratby Edward Burra Jake & Dinos Chapman Geoffrey Clarke Prunella Clough John Davies Eric Gill David Hockney Gary Hume Conrow Maddox Robert Medley Paul Noble Hughie O'Donoghue Eduardo Paolozzi Peter Phillips Walter Richard Sickert Jack Smith William Turnbull and...

In 1976 the great figurative painter and polemicist R.B. Kitaj organized a group exhibition for the Arts Council of Great Britain entitled The Human Clay. To mark the 35th anniversary of Kitaj's seminal exhibition and to celebrate a decade of exhibitions focused on Twentieth Century British figurative art at James...

James Hyman Gallery is pleased to present Modernist Realism an exhibition that focuses on artists who have made London their base and are often associated with the School of London. This exhibition and the simultaneous photography show, London Calling , seek to approach the School of London afresh to suggest...

In celebration we have made a selection of acknowledged masterpieces and little-known rarities from the Modern British inventory of James Hyman Fine Art. We will be exhibiting for the first time, an icon of British cultural history, Michael Andrews's huge canvas, The Colony Room Mural (1958), which was installed at...

James Hyman says: As this exhibition demonstrates, Bacon's legacy was not stylistic so much as conceptual: an encouragement to take risks, an art of extremes, a heightened sense of mortality.Hyman Gallery will also be presenting a series of rarely seen prints by Francis Bacon. As with Bacon, all the artists...

James Hyman is proud to present a personal tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson, one of Britain's greatest architects and art collectors of the last half-century. The exhibition follows the death of Colin St John Wilson in May this year and coincides with the 10th anniversary of the opening...

A spine runs through some of the most radical figurative art in Britain of the twentieth century. Its backbone is drawing and its fibre art school teaching, yet it is the distinct personalities of each artist that provide the meat. From Walter Sickert to Tony Bevan, what impresses one most...

Exhibition including Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Henry Moore, William Scott, Stanley Spencer, Graham Sutherland. ESSAY IN THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER BY JAMES HYMAN

The exhibition brings together paintings by four of the most important British figure painters of the last half-century, painters often associated with the so -called School of London. It also includes works on paper to demonstrate the radical ways in which these artists reinvented European painting in the face of...