Henry will be opening his home gallery again for an Open House on Saturday 17 June 2023. All are welcome and we very much hope you will be able to attend. Online booking is essential via the website and link below.
Below is a sample of the collection of works that will be on show at the Open House. Do not hesitate to get in contact, should you have any queries about any of the works in the collection.
Roger Shackelton, (Irish 1931-1987), Cretan Boatman, c.1962-63, oil on canvas laid on board, 78cm x 50cm, (100cm x 72cm framed), Price on request
Shackleton was undoubted talent, whose life was cut short at the age of 56. Teaching at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, at the time of his death, throughout his career he exhibited in galleries in Dublin and was a regular contributor to the RHA. This painting, exhibited at the Taylor Galleries, Dublin, (February 1992) in a posthumous retrospective of his work, evokes the early work of Lucien Freud, as well as that of John Craxton.
Luis Caballero, (Colombian 1943-1995), Male Nude, 1985, red chalk on paper, signed and dated (lower left), 27cm x 38cm, (53cm x 63cm framed), £4,000
Caballero's pictures are exclusively devoted to the human body. 'In my paintings,' he wrote 'one is dos not know whether the figures are dying or having an orgasm'. Very successful in his own lifetime, his life was cut short due to an aids-related illness.
Gian Paolo Barbieri, (Italian b.1938), Kneeling Man, Tahiti Tattoos, c.1998, silver print, 50cm x 40cm (sheet size), (60cm x 50cm in mount), unframed, £950
This work was acquired from the artist, by the previous owner. It also features in Gian Paolo Barbieri, Tahiti Tattoos, 1998, Taschen. Barbieri has worked from Italian, French, German and American editions of vogue, as well as many leading fashions houses. His work is held in many public collections.
Michael Leonard, (British b.1933), Undressing Studies, 1972, pencil on paper, dated (upper right), 22cm x 28cm, (33cm x 37cm framed), £3,500
The nude, particularly the male nude, has been a recurring theme in Leonard’s work. Here is an early example of Leonard repeated motif of men dressing and undressing.
Alejandro Canedo, (Mexican-American 1902-1978), The Discouri, 1934, watercolour, pencil and gouache on paper, signed (lower right), 33cm x 33cm, (55cm x 5cm framed), £9,500
Aged only 15, Canedo was sent by his parents to study at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, subsequently continuing his studies in Rome in the 1920s. Successful throughout his life, after his first solo show in Rome in 1928, he returned to the US, for shows in New York in the 30s and 40s. After relocating to California in the 1950s, Cañedo also produced many overtly homoerotic artworks for private collectors which were too suggestive to be exhibited in galleries. His work is held in the collection of the Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York.