New York

 

Bernard Jacobson Gallery was founded in 1969, publishing and distributing prints by artists including Robyn Denny, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff, Henry Moore, Richard Smith, Ed Ruscha and William Tillyer.  By the mid 1970s, having established himself as one of the major dealers in prints, Jacobson began to show paintings and sculpture.  The early 1980s saw the gallery open branches in Los Angeles and New York, expanding the range of international artists to include West Coast American artists such as Joe Goode and Larry Bell as well as modern British masters such as David Bomberg, Ivon Hitchens, Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, William Scott, Stanley Spencer, and Graham Sutherland.  From 1997, the gallery moved more firmly into American and international art, with shows of artists such as Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons and Frank Stella.  Recently, the gallery has held shows by the American artists Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselmann, while European painters include Bram Bogart and Pierre Soulages and British artists William Tillyer, Bruce McLean and Mark Vaux.  In 2004, the gallery moved to 6 Cork Street in London’s Mayfair, uniting Bernard Jacobson Graphics and Bernard Jacobson Gallery under one roof.  Since then, the gallery has held major exhibitions including a two-part examination of Robert Motherwell’s Open Series, the largest showing of the artist’s work in the UK since the 1978 retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts; a rare selection of works from Helen Frankenthaler’s personal collection; and Bruce McLean’s first London showing of new paintings in over fifteen years.  In 2010, the gallery hosted the first UK exhibition of new work by French painter Pierre Soulages for over thirty years.  In 2011 the gallery opened a new space in New York on East 71st Street with an inaugural exhibition entitled 60 Years of British Art followed by 21 Americans, the latter showing work by major American artists including Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg.    Bernard Jacobson Gallery has a strong presence at major international art fairs participating at Art Brussels, Art Hong Kong, The Armory Show New York, London’s Pavilion of Art and Design, and the prestigious Art Basel where ArtInfo voted it one of the top booths of 2011 for a vast and impressive selection of works by Robert Motherwell.