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Mountain Landscape with Lightning, c1675, by Francisque Millet
This vertiginous Alpine view riven by a jagged streak of fire in the sky was painted in the age when French artists raised landscape to a new status as a serious and poetic artistic genre. Millet, who was based in Paris, shares the grandeur of his contemporaries Claude and Poussin. But we tend to picture their landscapes as calm and still, tinted with Mediterranean light â in short, âclassicalâ. That moderate atmosphere digusted the Victorian critic John Ruskin, who contrasted such milquetoast stuff with the British romanticism of Turner. Here, however, Millet creates an electrifying storm erupting from a calm day, its gold light and black clouds searing against the cool Alps: a scintillating bolt from the blue.
Children Pushing a Snowball, Manchester, 1968, 1968.
- Credit: Shirley Baker/courtesy of James Hyman Gallery
Hampstead Garden Suburb art collector James Hyman is rounding off the year selling yet more artwork in aid of charity.
James Hyman Gallery has pledged 50 percent of profits from the online fundraising sale over the Christmas period will go to foodbank charity The Trussell Trust.
Running from December 7 - 31, the 54 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and prints include work by Shirley Baker, Tacita Dean, Walker Evans, Tony Ray-Jones, Edouardo Paolozzi, Frank Auerbach. They are available to buy at discounted prices ranging from £150 for a limited edition book of photographs by Linda McCartney to £35,000 for a large-scale copper sculpture by Zhang Huan.