| exhibition archive The Discerning Eye Exhibition 1998 7th exhibition All my invited section is of photographs. This is not in the tradition of the Discerning Eye, which exists to encourage painters, but while I will energetically defend the right of anyone to work in any medium or style if it gives them pleasure, I am afraid that I find much of what is produced in painting today is very obviously at the tail-end of a tradition. Good photography is actually closer in its effect and role to painting in its hey-day. Its subject matter moves, persuades and documents (just think of Don McCullen's war reportage). The artist struggles with innovation and when successful, makes us see anew. And photography can be beautiful. It is not so much that photography has made painting irrelevant, but that ever since it was invented, it has pushed painting into every possible kind of experimentation, and it is now extraordinarily difficult to do anything in that medium that has any power to beguile, interest or move. | 1/1 | Matisse with model | £195 |
| 1/2 | Figure (version B) | £195 |
| 1/4 | Three Standing figures (in snow) | £195 |
| 1/6 | David Hockney 1969 | £2,000 |
| 1/7 | Jean Shrimpton, Mexico City, 1962 | £8,000 |
| 1/8 | Ralph Fiennes, London 1995 | £2,500 |
| 1/9 | Reginald Kray's wedding 1965 | £6,000 |
| 1/10 | The Krays 20 April 1965 | £2,400 |
| 1/11 | Combination Black 1995 | £1,000 |
| 1/12 | Combination Hole No 3, 1995 | £1,000 |
| 1/13 | Combination Hole No 4, 1995 | £1,000 |
| 1/14 | Combination Moulds No 2, 1995 | £1,000 |
| 1/16 | Stratford Variations No.4 | £170 |
| 1/17 | Stratford Variations No.10 | £170 |
| 1/18 | Stratford Variations No.11 | £170 |
| 1/20 | California 1955 | £1,980 |
| 1/21 | Near Bakersfield, California, male nudes 1983 | £900 |
| 1/22 | Near Bakersfield, California, female nudes 1983 | £900 |
| 1/23 | Newhaven Connecticut 1955 | £900 |
| 1/25 | Untitled 30 (Quench it) 1996 | £660 |
| 1/26 | Untitled 35 (Wooden horses) 1996 | £660 |
| 1/27 | Untitled 4 (Beauty parlour) 1996 | £1,075 |
| 1/28 | Untitled 8 (Watermelons) 1997 | £660 |
| 1/29 | Untitled 97 - 10 (Japanese Maple) 1996 | £780 |
| 1/30 | Untitled 97 - 29 (Cotton Candy) 1996 | £660 |
| 1/33 | Woman reading Possession Order | £1,800 |
| 1/34 | The art of squatting | £1,800 |
| 1/36 | Girl with a glass of wine | £1,800 |
| 1/37 | A round dewpond near my village 1980's | £800 |
| 1/38 | Gathering coal dust illegally to re-sell, Sunderland, 1987 | £1,000 |
| 1/39 | Londonderry, Northern Ireland, The snatch squad armed with clubs 1971 | £1,000 |
| 1/40 | Norma Steel with son in their kitchen, Bradford, 1987 | £1,000 |
| 1/41 | Soldier, Zimbabwe, standing at front of line with weapons & leather cap, 1970 | £1,000 |
| 1/42 | Three women standing, one sitting, Refugee Camp, India, February 1989 | £1,000 |
| 1/43 | Short-horned Leicester Ox | £325 |
| 1/44 | Chandelier piece I | £600 |
| 1/45 | Chandelier piece II | £600 |
| 1/48 | Untitled landscape I | £550 |
| 1/49 | Untitled landscape II | £550 |
| 1/50 | Untitled landscape III | £550 |
| 1/51 | Untitled landscape IV | £550 |
| 1/53 | Saint from the salt mine | £375 |
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