For its autumn exhibition, Robilant presents a major survey of still life painting, opening during Frieze Week. The ambitious show charts over 400 years of still life, tracing the changing essence and status of the genre from the 16th century to the present.
The exhibition includes many of the pre-eminent masters of the still life genre, with works by Osias Beert the Elder, Willem Claesz. Heda, Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Giovanni Battista Recco, Francisco de Zurbarán, Victoria Dubourg, Henri Fantin-Latour, Pablo Picasso, Odilon Redon, Pierre Bonnard, Philip Guston and Andy Warhol from private collections as well as on loan from notable institutions such as the Female Artists of the Mougins Museum (FAMM), France. These will sit alongside new commissions by rising voices in the contemporary art world, including Poppy Jones and Asher Liftin. Robilant will publish a catalogue to accompany the exhibition, written by Yale professor and art historian Carol Armstrong. For a subject so relatable and appealing, the humble still life spent much of its existence overlooked in favour of history painting and portraiture.