Gallery highlights
Gerhard Richter: Engadin Nietzsche-Haus, Sils; Segantini Museum and Hauser & Wirth, Saint Moritz Until 13 April
Gerhard Richter first visited the Swiss Alpine region of Upper Engadin in 1989; ever since, the artist has spent time in its valleys across the seasons. Now the Nietzsche House in Sils and the Segantini Museum and Hauser & Wirth in Saint Moritz are collaborating on an exhibition of Richter’s paintings, drawings and photographs inspired by its landscapes.
The Thunder Hurried Slow: Emily Mason Paintings, 1968–1979 Miles McEnery Gallery, New York Until 3 February
The brilliant colourist Emily Mason (1932– 2019) spent much of her time tending to the posthumous career of her mother, the abstract artist Alice Trumbull Mason. This exhibition curated by the art historian Barbara Stehle focuses on an early period of Mason’s own practice. Lively canvases bear pigments and solvents mixed then poured, rubbed, scraped or finger-painted to textural effect.
Moon / King: The Work and Friendship of Phillip King and Jeremy Moon, 1956–1973 Thomas Dane Gallery, London 26 January–20 April
In 1956, Phillip King and Jeremy Moon met at Cambridge while studying, respectively, modern languages and law. Little could they have known that this friendship would go on to influence future careers as artists. This collaboration between Thomas Dane Gallery and Luhring Augustine pairs drawings and paintings by Moon with King’s sculptures.
Sara Flores White Cube, Paris Until 13 January
Ayahuasca is a key part of the rituals of the Shipibo-Conibo nation of the Peruvian Amazon. An artistic tradition called kené parallels the music – and the visions – that accompany such rites: geometric motifs are sculpted, woven or painted on textiles, ceramics or the body. Sara Flores, a Shipibo-Conibo artist, creates maze-like kené designs painted freehand with vegetable dyes on to canvases of wild cotton.
Master Drawings New York Various venues, New York 27 January–3 February
The annual event celebrating works on paper is back for its 18th edition. A selection of 26 exhibitors from New York, London, Paris, Madrid and Brussels is exhibiting in spaces across the Upper East Side of Manhattan, offering artworks dating from the 15th to 21st centuries. This year, Master Drawings has partnered with the Drawing Foundation, a newly formed non-profit that is programming a series of tours and lectures at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Christie’s.
Notable highlights from the fair include a study from the 1840s of atmospheric conditions in pencil and watercolour by J.M.W. Turner, once owned by John Ruskin, offered by Abbott & Holder, and a Picasso watercolour study that is appearing on the market for the first time since its purchase from the artist in the 1920s, courtesy Patrick Bourne & Co (Fig. 2). It is one of a series of four; others are in the collection of the Musée Picasso in Paris. Elsewhere, Nicholas Hall and W.M. Brady & Co. are exhibiting a recently discovered chalk drawing by Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo.