{"id":783778,"date":"2026-09-27T00:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T00:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783778\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T00:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T00:46:32","slug":"old-masters-meet-surrealists-in-a-free-marylebone-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783778\/","title":{"rendered":"Old masters meet surrealists in a free Marylebone exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wide-ranging collection of artworks, from old masters to modern, has been gathered in an exhibition that is, well, quite eclectic.<\/p>\n

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The collection, which ranges from paintings by Hendrick Goltzius to Salvador Dal\u00ed, has been interspersed with modern works by the gallery owner, Glenn Brown.<\/p>\n

Glenn Brown\u2019s work is very marmite and of a certain taste, but collecting a range of other artists and putting them on display around his work gives the visitor a chance to see usually private works by well-known artists, and for free.<\/p>\n

The Dali is a collection of erotic sketches, and your decision about how close you get up to it to look may be a measure of prudishness. It also sits next to a totally unrelated 19th-century still life of flowers in a vase by Henri Fantin-Latour.<\/p>\n

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A charming triple set of French ladies by Albert Victor-Ormsby Wood forms an almost triptych, while surrealism comes from photos by John Stezaker.<\/p>\n

A more atmospheric cellar is lined with botanical sketches, mostly by Marion Adnams<\/p>\n

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As an exhibition, it\u2019s so wide-ranging that it feels like it\u2019s a random selection of artworks without any theme or reason. A person with a PhD in art theory will probably work it out, but for the rest of us \u201cmere mortals\u201d, it\u2019s still an enjoyable collection of art to wander around.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s likely that everyone will find at least one artwork that they like in the collection.<\/p>\n

The exhibition, Fail We May, Sail We Must<\/a>, is at the Brown Collection<\/a> in Marylebone until August 2027 and is free to visit.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s open Wednesday to Saturday, 10.30am to 6pm.<\/p>\n

1 Bentinck Mews,
Marylebone,
London,
W1U 2AF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wide-ranging collection of artworks, from old masters to modern, has been gathered in an exhibition that is,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}