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The UK's first major survey exhibition of the work of critically acclaimed Hampshire artist Anthony Lawrence (1051 - 2022) is to be staged at Palais des Vaches from 4th to 31st October 2025.
Lawrence's work spanned genres of still life, portraiture, landscape, religious iconography and grand themes. His works appeared in many international group shows and he was the subject of a number of exhibitions during his lifetime.
This retrospective will showcase a vast collection of works, with over 150 in total, created by Lawrence at his family home in Tiptoe, and meticulously cataloged by his family. The show will include a selection of his portraits of famous sitters; during his career he painted Yehudi Menhuin, Francis Bacon, Seamus Heaney, Sir Ian McKellen, Roger McGuinn, Nigel Mansell and many others.
He also made many landscapes, focusing on the New Forest where he lived, and deserts in the Middle East where he liked to travel. Lawrence drew on classical antiquity, religion and literature, with Dante's Inferno a huge inspiration for a body of over forty paintings that will be on display. Among Lawrence's religious and spiritual works are fourteen Stations of the Cross paintings, which will be shown alongside a huge canvas of his version of The Last Supper, in which friends and family pose in robes.
This retrospective, the largest of its kind at the Palais, will be the first to show the full spectrum of his career and the exhibition celebrates the evolution of Lawrence's approach over five decades of intensive practice. The Lawrence estate and the Palais des Vaches are working together to bring this remarkable collection, much of which is unseen until now, to Nick and Caroline de Rothschild's spacious gallery at the edge of New Forest, close to where Lawrence himself lived and worked for most of his life.
Mounted in collaboration with the Lawrence estate, Anthony Lawrence A Retrospective will be at Palais des Vaches from 4th to 31st October. Admission is free with most work available to purchase.
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