Henry will be opening his home gallery again for an Open House on Sunday 16 July 2023. If you've never been to an Open House before, it is the best place to view Henry's collection. A large selection of works will be displayed over two floors within Henry’s own period home. We hope you'll be able to make it. Please RSVP below if you would like to attend.
Below is a small 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.
Peter McClaren, (Scottish b.1964), Figure in a Hot Landscape, 1991, oil on board, signed and dated (lower right), 77cm x 55cm, (81cm x 64cm framed), £3,950
Born in Edinburgh McClaren studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. While there he won the John Kinross Scholarship, from the Royal Scottish Academy, which allowed him to study in Florence, and the Richard Ford Award, from the Royal Academy in London, to study the works in the Prado, Madrid. Early influences include the collection of Scottish Colourists and post war expressionist paintings found in his home town of Kirkcaldy's Museum. Post graduation, McClaren won an Andrew Grant Scholarship which introduced him first hand to American art. Wyeth, Pollock, Lichtenstein and Warhol. In 1989 he won the inaugural British Airways Most Promising Artist Award. He continues to live and work in Scotland.
John B. Lear, (American 1910-2008), Man on Dock, 1984, pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 24cm x 33cm, (44cm x 51cm framed), £4,000
Throughout his long career, Lear primarily explored homoeroticism in a truly unique style. He is an artist who remained true to his style and genre, at a time when exploring the male form in art was truly unfashionable. His work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Woodmere Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts.
George Platt Lynes, (American 1907-1955), Tchelitchew Jonathan Tichenor, on the easel, Portrait of George Platt Lynes, c.1945, silver ferrotype print (printed late 1970s), 19.7cm x 20.3cm (image size), 20.3cm x 25.4cm (sheet size), (33cm x 34cm framed), provenance Glen Wescott and John Stevenson, £4,500
A major force in American 20th century photography, he took his first photographs as a young artist living in New York and Paris in the 1920s. He maintained an interest in the male figure throughout his career and was part of a close-knit group of artists, including Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French, and George Tooker.
This photo depicts the artist painting the photographer in his work from 1937. see also The Young and Evil, David Zwirmer Books, 2019, p.65
Wilhelm Albert Lefèbre, (German 1873-1974), Figure Study, 1926, oil on board, signed and dated (middle left), 30cm x 30cm, (36cm x 36cm framed), £1,500
Lefèbre initially studied at the Fine Arts Academies in Dusseldorf and Munich before enrolling in the Academie Julian in Paris, in 1898, under the tutelage of Ferrier, Jean-Paul Laurens and Bouguereau. He was master of landscapes and genre scenes.
Yves Paradis, (French b.1955 Trois Garçons au Bord du Lac, 1992, silver print, signed, titled and dated on mount and signed (verso), 40cm x 30cm, (50cm x 40cm in mount), unframed, £800
Paradis is noted for his soft, romantic, and tender approach to photography, visualizing an everyday gay lifestyle away from the glitz and glamour of the scene. In contrast with a lot of fantasy and fetishist gay photography of the time though, his pictures usually featured young men of the ‘boy-next-door’ and ‘bit-of-rough’ types, definitely sexy but not physically perfect, making them more realistic as well as more romantic.