We do, indeed, thank you and so do and so will a huge amount of people. But why are we thanking this man, for what has he done to please us?
He is a Mexican art collector with the largest collection of Victorian art outside Great Britain and what he has done is to loan fifty two paintings from his private collection and to the Leighton House Museum where they are forming a wonderful exhibition of Victorian art.
It is a breathtakingly glorious collection, made even more beautiful because the paintings and the house, built in the 1860's by Lord (Frederic) Leighton, are of the same era. In fact, four of the paintings were painted in this house by him in this house.
Queen Ester by Edwin Longdsen, RA, The Roses of Hekiogabalus by Lawrence Alma-Tademas (which is being exhibited in London for the first time since 1913!) and Crenaia, the Nymph of the Dargle by Frederic (Lord) Leighton are here and the rest of the paintings are as beautiful.
Albert Moore, Hohn Melhuish, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones are a few of the artists whose works are shown but there are more.
Whatever your feelings or thoughts are on Victorian art, go and see this exhibition.. what a generous gift it is from this man to allow this collection to come to Leighton House Museum.
Go and wonder at the level of the artists' expertise and view truly superb art painted by some artists that she, phillistine that she is, had never heard of.
Hugo will have already been, for walls and locked doors and security grills are of no consquence to artists and art lovers no longer residents of this mortal earth.. he and her much beloved and sorely missed friend, Marina Orpen, will have surely been delighted by these exquisite paintings.
The exhibition dates are:
November 14th until March 29th, 2015.
The Perez Simon Collection,
Leighton House Museum,
12. Holland Park Road,
London W14.
Open 10.00 to 5.30pm.
Closed Tuesdays.
Ticket details: £10.00 or £5.00 with a National Art Pass.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 19th, 2015.
He is a Mexican art collector with the largest collection of Victorian art outside Great Britain and what he has done is to loan fifty two paintings from his private collection and to the Leighton House Museum where they are forming a wonderful exhibition of Victorian art.
It is a breathtakingly glorious collection, made even more beautiful because the paintings and the house, built in the 1860's by Lord (Frederic) Leighton, are of the same era. In fact, four of the paintings were painted in this house by him in this house.
Queen Ester by Edwin Longdsen, RA, The Roses of Hekiogabalus by Lawrence Alma-Tademas (which is being exhibited in London for the first time since 1913!) and Crenaia, the Nymph of the Dargle by Frederic (Lord) Leighton are here and the rest of the paintings are as beautiful.
Albert Moore, Hohn Melhuish, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones are a few of the artists whose works are shown but there are more.
Whatever your feelings or thoughts are on Victorian art, go and see this exhibition.. what a generous gift it is from this man to allow this collection to come to Leighton House Museum.
Go and wonder at the level of the artists' expertise and view truly superb art painted by some artists that she, phillistine that she is, had never heard of.
Hugo will have already been, for walls and locked doors and security grills are of no consquence to artists and art lovers no longer residents of this mortal earth.. he and her much beloved and sorely missed friend, Marina Orpen, will have surely been delighted by these exquisite paintings.
The exhibition dates are:
November 14th until March 29th, 2015.
The Perez Simon Collection,
Leighton House Museum,
12. Holland Park Road,
London W14.
Open 10.00 to 5.30pm.
Closed Tuesdays.
Ticket details: £10.00 or £5.00 with a National Art Pass.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 19th, 2015.
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