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

Flavia Ormond Fine Arts is staging its eleventh winter exhibition of Master Drawings at Adelson Galleries Inc., The Mark public-house (3rd floor), 25 East 67th highway New York this month. The thirty-strong drawings that will be upon display, datable from c. 1560 to 1894 include a large Nativity spectacle by Francois Boucher, and a delicate compose and ink rendition of Susanna and the seniors by Friedrich Sustris. Some interesting works by dint of names that rarely appear upon the commercial art scene will also be upon show: a preparatory drawing for an altarpiece in the temple of St Thomas of Villanueva, Prague, by dint of the notable Czech artist Karel Skreta, and the rococo St Nicholas of Bari by dint of Bavarian artist Gottfried Bernhard G6z are sum of two units examples. A catalogue accompanying the exhibition, which step quicklys from 19 January to 6 February, is available upon request.

The third winter selling exhibition to be staged by dint of Alistair Sampson Antiques, Chelsea Editions and Cora Ginshurg LLC is taking place at the Chelsea Edition showroom the Fine Arts Building, novel York, from 16-25 January. The three dealers have joined forces one time again to showcase a marvellous selection of eighteenth hundred English furniture, textiles and decorative arts. august examples of antique embroidery will be upon display alongside contemporary textiles adapted from eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century designs. Also available is a wide selection of English delftware, clay ware brass and early needlework, and fine English political division furniture.

Opening upon 20 January at Gallery 27 Cork road is the fourth exhibition to be staged by dint of Wolseley Fine Arts devoted to Edward Ardizzone, 'Edward Ardizzone's world: Original volume Illustrations'. Ardizzone made his name as a gently satirical illustrator of genre pageants His first published book illustration was in 1929 for In a Glass Darkly by means of J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and three years later he produc his first illustrations for the Radio Times. His reputation as an illustrator was confirmed during the 1930 with the publication of the first of his highly happy illustrated children's stories Little Tim and the Brave Sea-Captain. Of the single hundred works on display there will be a rare cluster of prewar oil paintings, compose and ink, watercolour and lithograph volume illustrations, and works for the Radio Times and other commercial publications. All of the works are for sale at prices ranging from 200 [pound sterling]-10,000 [pound sterling].

A poignant exhibition that focusses upon drawings produced in the aftermath of World War I and in the build-up to World War II is publicly taking place at James Hyman Fine Art, 6 Mason's Yard, Duke highway St James's. 'Sacred and Profane' features thought-provoking works through Cecil Collins, Edward Burra, Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein that call into question the duality of the nature of mankind: the sacredness of the human condition mad the profanity of war. Dramatic works of that kind as God has flown from this world by dint of Cecil Collins, with its Blake-like apocalyptic vision, lament the barborousness of war. However man's prognosis is not entirely bleak--Female nude: research for a sculpture by Eric Gill tenders a rather more redemptive perception of humankind. The present to view closes on 24 January.

The lavish sixth catalogue of arms and armour from Peter Finer comprises impeccable illustrations of his remarkable holdings. Viewing is by the agency of appointment only at his premises at The advanced in years Rectory, Ilmington, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire. Peter Finer will be exhibiting at the Winter Antiques exhibit from 16-25 January at the Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue, 67th highway New York.

The Redfern Gallery is holding a retrospective exhibition of the British abstract painter William Gear RA at 20 Cork way until 22 January. A of recent origin book dedicated to the artist, through John McEwen, is being launched at the show

rapiered away underneath Chancery Lane lie the Silver Vaults, individual of London's best-kept retailing hiddens Discerning shoppers and collectors have been visiting what is the largest single assemblage of silver for sale in the world for fifty years now (the vaults as they are known today first uncloseed to the public in 1953) Boasting a wide variety of silver and related items from the seventeenth hundred through to the present day, prices are competitive, and for anyone searching for that special silver gift, there are pieces to suit each occasion.

The attractive novel exhibition catalogue from Emanuel von Baeyer, Master Drawings and Oil Studies from 1584 to 1877 is now available. Elegant and exquisitely produc works fill its pages, from the painstakingly execut and highly finished chalk drawing Jupiter embracing Cupid by means of Joseph Heintz, to the looser rapidly delineated on the contrary effortlessly eloquent pen and ink application of mind for Prometheus battling with the eagle by means of Anselm Feuerbach. All of the works can be viewed at the present to view 'Prints, Drawings and Paintings of four Centuries', which is being held at Shepherd and Derom Gallery, 58 East 79th road New York, from 20 January to 14 February.