Euan Uglow

Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert and Frankie Rossi are delighted to present Euan Uglow, a major loan exhibition marking the joint representation of The Estate of Euan Uglow. The twenty-five paintings on display bring together some of the artist’s most important nudes, still lifes, and landscapes. One of the most significant figurative painters of 20th century British Art, Euan Uglow (1932-2000) is renowned for his meticulously constructed works. Two rare and exceptional masterpieces from private collections, The Diagonal (1971-77) and Root Five Nude (1974-75), present Uglow’s masterful placement of bodies and limbs, unremittingly measured over his lengthy painting process. Shown alongside the publicly owned Curled Nude on a Stool (1982-83), the works bring to light an integral element of Uglow’s practice: the nude as an essentially formal problem. Landscapes emerging from Uglow’s ‘pilgrimages’ to the Mediterranean attest to his unwavering pursuit of clarity, sensibility for luminous planes of light, and accomplished control over forms, as fastidiously devised as in his portraits and still lifes. The exhibition catalogue is comprised of essays by Catherine Lampert and Andrew Lambirth. Celia Lyttelton also revisits her experience sitting for Curled Nude on a Stool forty years ago, unearthing the process of posing as a demanding discipline in which both model and artist are tied.

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