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NEWS All the latest WHAT’S ON IN FEBRUARY ANTIQUE news The 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen and JMW Turner are both celebrated this year, while a Norman hoard goes on show at the British Museum PALACE COUP Following a record-breaking year in 2024, expanded tours of Buckingham Palace will take place from July 10 to September 28, with even greater access to the palace’s famous front facade. Visitors will have the chance to go behind the scenes of the opulent State Rooms, used for the grandest royal occasions, while tours of the famous East Wing, home of the building’s iconic balcony will continue in 2025. There will also be an expanded programme of tours led by expert guides, exploring rooms on the Principal Floor, which contains examples of fine Chinese and Japanese porcelain and 19th-century furniture, as well as paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Thomas Lawrence and the German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter. 6 ANTIQUE COLLECTING Above The Centre Room in the East Wing, © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024/ Royal Collection Trust. Photographer, Peter Smith Above right The statue has been replaced after conservation work Right JMW Turner (1775-1851) Harewood House from the North East, credit Harewood House Trust Rose sent Work has been completed on a centrepiece statue in the rose garden of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. The statue, of a girl sitting on the shoulders of a centaur, dates back to the 1920s, and was returned after a year’s conservation work which saw her arm reattached and nose repaired. The work was part of a larger restoration of the garden which included painting perimeter rose arches and the installation of four new benches. n of the garden which HOUSE PARTY A Yorkshire country house is celebrating 250 years since the birth of two British cultural icons: the writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) and artist JMW Turner (1775-1851). Harewood House near Otley, will bring to life both artists using manuscripts, period costumes and paintings. Harewood featured in one of Turner’s most important sketching trips, and Austen named a character after the house’s owner, Edwin Lascelles, in her 1814 book Mansfield Park.

1Good impression Paintings by some of the greatest Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, including Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh go on show this month at a London gallery. The works, displayed at the Courtauld Gallery, were all once owned by the Swiss arts patron and collector, Oskar Reinhart (1885-1965). Masterpieces include Van Gogh’s A Ward in the Hospital at Arles (1889), where the Dutch artist was admitted following a mental breakdown and the mutilation of his ear. Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection is on at the Courtauld Gallery from February 14 to May 26. 3Stringing endorsement On the 50th anniversary of her death, a London gallery is exploring the string works of the artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975). Piano Nobile unveils the exhibition on February 6, bringing together a significant group of Hepworth’s work, taken from public and private collections, including sculptures, drawings and paintings that embrace the string motif. Hepworth’s string sculptures are some of her most innovative and visually striking works, blending the elements of sculpture, geometry, and tension. She was inspired by the natural world and mathematical principles. The strings in her sculptures often mimic natural patterns, like the webbing of a spider, the curves of a wave, or the tension in biological structures. Far left Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901), The Clown ChaU-Kao, 1895. All images courtesy of The Swiss Confederation, Oskar Reinhart Collection Above left Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) A Ward in the Hospital at Arles, 1889 Above right Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988), Scylla (méditerranée), 1938, Tate, © Spire Healthcare, © Noise Abatement Society, © Samaritans to see in February 3 Top right Ithell Colquhoun (19061988), Self-Portrait, 1929, The Ruth Borchard Collection, courtesy of Piano Nobile, © Spire Healthcare, © Noise Abatement Society, © Samaritans Above left Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) Still Life with Faience Jug and Fruit, c. 1900 Above right Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) Earth Process, 1940. Tate, presented by the National Trust 2016, © Tate. Photo Sam Day Right Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) Forms in movement (Circle), 1942 Below right Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) Stringed figure (Curlew) (Version I), 1956, Sammlung Pohl, Marburg Far right Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) Delphi (Stone form) 2 Surreal thing Works by the overlooked British Surrealist Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) go on show this month at Tate St Ives. The landmark exhibition features more than 170 works, including painting, drawing and writing; many of which have never been publicly exhibited. Born in India, Colquhoun was educated in the UK. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art where she honed her skills in painting and drawing. She became involved with the British Surrealist movement in the 1930s and exhibited with the London Group. Her work often explored themes of automatism and the subconscious but she was expelled from the group in 1940 due to her commitment to esotericism and occult practices, which clashed with the group’s secular orientation. The exhibition runs from February 1 to May 5. ANTIQUE COLLECTING 7

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The 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen and JMW Turner are both celebrated this year, while a Norman hoard goes on show at the British Museum

PALACE COUP Following a record-breaking year in 2024, expanded tours of Buckingham Palace will take place from July 10 to September 28, with even greater access to the palace’s famous front facade.

Visitors will have the chance to go behind the scenes of the opulent State Rooms, used for the grandest royal occasions, while tours of the famous East Wing, home of the building’s iconic balcony will continue in 2025.

There will also be an expanded programme of tours led by expert guides, exploring rooms on the Principal Floor, which contains examples of fine Chinese and Japanese porcelain and 19th-century furniture, as well as paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Thomas Lawrence and the German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

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Above The Centre Room in the East Wing, © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024/ Royal Collection Trust. Photographer, Peter Smith

Above right The statue has been replaced after conservation work

Right JMW Turner (1775-1851) Harewood House from the North East, credit Harewood House Trust

Rose sent Work has been completed on a centrepiece statue in the rose garden of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. The statue, of a girl sitting on the shoulders of a centaur, dates back to the 1920s, and was returned after a year’s conservation work which saw her arm reattached and nose repaired. The work was part of a larger restoration of the garden which included painting perimeter rose arches and the installation of four new benches.

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HOUSE PARTY A Yorkshire country house is celebrating 250 years since the birth of two British cultural icons: the writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) and artist JMW Turner (1775-1851). Harewood House near Otley, will bring to life both artists using manuscripts, period costumes and paintings. Harewood featured in one of Turner’s most important sketching trips, and Austen named a character after the house’s owner, Edwin Lascelles, in her 1814 book Mansfield Park.

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