‘The Little Gallery’ in The Parade will be holding an exhibition of Henry Orlik’s captivating masterpieces between Friday 23 August and 6 September. This will be the second chapter of the exhibition – Cosmos of Dreams: Rediscovering the Locked-Up Genius of Henry Orlik – the first part of which is being staged at the Maas Gallery in Duke St (London, W1) until 20 August.
The exhibitions are being curated by well-known BBC Antiques Roadshow paintings specialist Grant Ford, whose Fine Art & Sculpture Company, Winsor Birch managed both parts of the exhibition and The Little Gallery is their showroom in Marlborough.
Henry Orlik is widely regarded as a master surrealist and quantum art painter. Recently rediscovered, the London exhibition of his previously unseen work has been a sell-out attracting national coverage, and even a dedicated piece in The Guardian. The thriving exhibition was inundated with immense interest and enquiries, contributing to the entrancing resurgence of Henry Orlik’s work. As well as marking the centenary of Surrealism, this exhibition marks fifty years since Orlik exhibited at Acoris, the renowned Surrealist Art Centre in Brook Street in the prestigious West End of London in 1974 where his exquisitely painted work which he described as Quantum art was included alongside Surrealist greats Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Francis Picabia and René Magritte.
This selling exhibition will reveal masterpieces which have been hidden away for decades, some of which will be of institutional interest. The thriving exhibition has been inundated with immense interest and enquiries, contributing to the entrancing resurgence of Henry Orlik’s work.
Henry Orlik almost ‘disappeared’ from the art scene fifty years ago. Retreating from public life, spending his time just painting his pictures, never following up the initial excitement that his works had created.
But Henry Orlik and his surrealist visions are back, for us all to see, and to acquire as since a recent stroke he has lost much of his ability to create, so needs now to use the proceeds of sales to live.
In The Guardian article Grant Ford was quoted describing Henry Orlik’s works as being ‘mind-bogglingly good’.
But Orlik, quoted in 1972, stated: ‘They say I’m surrealistic. I just paint’
Bringing water to the community of Morobo in South Sudan, an appeal from the churches in Marlborough
