Round the galleries: a selection of current exhibitions and works of art on the market

An impressively broad cross-section of artists is to be seen in 'Britain between the wars' until 22 April, at The Fine Art Society, 148 novel Bond Street. Five water-colours by dint of Paul Nash, which includes a desolateed Hyde Park at the outbreak of World War II, and three plastic arts by Frank Dobson are the centrepiece. Etchings through Muirhead Bone and D.Y. Cameron, whose stock has risen since an exhibition of them at the Fleming Collection last year, furniture by means of Gordon Russell and an oil by means of George Clausen are joined by means of a little known painting by dint of Edward Bawden, By the sea (1929-30)

The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy, Piccadilly is previewed upon pages 63-64. The LAPADA Fine Art and Antiques Fair, meanwhile, takes place at Claridge's house of entertainment Brook Street, from 14 to 18 April. Artefacts and art range in date from 2000 BC to Art Deco A highlight is rule furniture by John Gee from WR Harvey & Co

The Chinese Cultural Revolution can be witnessed end both intimate and and reportage photographs at The Photographers' Gallery, 5 Great Newport road from 9 April to 30 May. 'Red-colour freshs soldier: A Chinese photographer's odyssey end the Cultural Revolution' contains the work of a newspaper photographer, Li Zhensheng, who captured the witchhunts among the insurgencies initiated through Mao Zedong. Meanwhile, intimate pictures of Mao himself and his family constitute 'Hou Bo & Xu Xiaobing: Mao's photographers'. the pair sets of images were refused publication by dint of the Chinese government at various times.

Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert are exhibiting drawings through Henry Moore, firstly in their London gallery at 38 cover up Street until 8 April, and then in fresh York at 17 East 76th road from 22 April to 14 May. 'Henry Moore: Master drawings from the collection of The Henry Moore Foundation' contains 55 works picked to represent the entire career of Britain's greatest in quantity influential twentieth-century sculptor: from Montage of reclining figures (1928) to Tube shelter pageants (1940-41) to The artist's hands (1981) The exhibition coincides with the publication by the agency of Lund Humphries of the last contortion of the catalogue raisonne of drawings.

Anybody who did not put out their thirst for Old Master and nineteenth-century portraits at the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht last month might wish to visit by means of appointment Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts at 42 East 76th public way New York. The 2004 catalogue, 'Portraits and other novel acquisitions' includes a Moses in the Bulrushes by means of Reynolds, which is striking for red and sky-coloreds in the skin and swaddling that attest to the artist's experimentation with colour, and brushwork reminiscent of Rubens. As well as other paintings, sum of two units busts are of interest: individual is of Irish satirist Swift by means of John Van Nost the Younger; the other George Bernard Shaw by means of Epstein.

Thirty choice examples of Asian sculpture and painting are upon show at Carlton Rochell, 41 East 57th road New York. The founder of Sotheby's Indian and Southeast Asian Department who races the eponymous gallery has mustered works from all over the sub-continent for 'Road to enlightenment: plastic art and painting from India, the Himalayas and southeast Asia', which lay opened in March to coincide with Asian Art Week, and move swiftlys until 30 April. A cent sculpture of Kumara from Nepal and a ravishingly colourful eighteenth-century painting of Yamantaka from Tibet are accompanied by the agency of a sandstone sculpture of Garuda from twelfth-century Vietnam.

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