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Lot Essay
In response to an interview for the Financial Times, 25 September 2019, Philip Hewat-Jaboor commented:
The best gift I’ve received recently was an oil painting of a vase of peonies by Paul César Helleu. I have a passion for peonies and this appeared as a gift from my great friend [the art dealer] Lady Jane Abdy after her death. It’s one of the most beautiful things I have ever been given.
The art world was Jane Abdy's domain - she was in her element at the centre of it, a much loved and respected figure, familiar in the salerooms, at exhibitions and galleries, whether in London, Paris, Stockholm or Copenhagen. With her formidable knowledge of artists, collections and the fascinating personalities from the worlds of art and literature from the 17th to the 20th centuries she was a perfectionist in everything she did. The interiors of her home (Cecil Beaton's former house on Pelham Place) were an homage to the paintings she loved, the lilacs and pale blues of Tissot and Winterhalter and the soft greys of Hammershoi and the Danish 19th Century painters she introduced so effectively to the international market. Her gallery The Ferrers Gallery in Piccadilly Arcade mounted exhibitions of less remembered artists, whose popularity and significance she did so much to enhance. The Ferrers Gallery was followed in the 1970s by the Bury Street Gallery with an exhibition on The Souls in 1982, and in 1984 the first London exhibition of the Danish 19th Century painters since 1907.
We are grateful to Les Amis de Paul-César Helleu for confirming the authenticity of this work, which has been registered in their archive as n° APCH HU4-2737.
The best gift I’ve received recently was an oil painting of a vase of peonies by Paul César Helleu. I have a passion for peonies and this appeared as a gift from my great friend [the art dealer] Lady Jane Abdy after her death. It’s one of the most beautiful things I have ever been given.
The art world was Jane Abdy's domain - she was in her element at the centre of it, a much loved and respected figure, familiar in the salerooms, at exhibitions and galleries, whether in London, Paris, Stockholm or Copenhagen. With her formidable knowledge of artists, collections and the fascinating personalities from the worlds of art and literature from the 17th to the 20th centuries she was a perfectionist in everything she did. The interiors of her home (Cecil Beaton's former house on Pelham Place) were an homage to the paintings she loved, the lilacs and pale blues of Tissot and Winterhalter and the soft greys of Hammershoi and the Danish 19th Century painters she introduced so effectively to the international market. Her gallery The Ferrers Gallery in Piccadilly Arcade mounted exhibitions of less remembered artists, whose popularity and significance she did so much to enhance. The Ferrers Gallery was followed in the 1970s by the Bury Street Gallery with an exhibition on The Souls in 1982, and in 1984 the first London exhibition of the Danish 19th Century painters since 1907.
We are grateful to Les Amis de Paul-César Helleu for confirming the authenticity of this work, which has been registered in their archive as n° APCH HU4-2737.