A selection of exhibitions of Sven Berlin's work during his lifetime and after his death in 1999. Visit our website www.svenberlin.co.uk
From top left:
The invitation to the Bladon Gallery (Hurstbourne Tarrant) exhibition in 1956 with Berlin's additional note that Lord Moyne attended.
Opening night at the 2011 Centenary Celebration at St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery.
Art critic, artist and writer Peter Davies opens Berlin's Dark Monarch envelope on his 100th birthday as the artist requested, revealing the identity of the characters in his infamous book.
Alison Bevan, former director of Penlee House Gallery & Museum in Penzance, celebrated Berlin's 101st birthday with his friend John Paddy Browne and daughter Greta Berlin. Photo: Phil Monkton.
On show at St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery in 2003, Berlin's alabaster head Timeless Man and on the wall, his flamboyant oil Gypsies Dancing.
Berlin, pictured at his very first exhibition in Camborne, Cornwall in 1939.
1939 May, Camborne Community Centre, Camborne, Cornwall
1946 January, St. Ives Society of Artists (STISA)
September, Crypt Group, St. Ives; Lefevre Gallery, London
1947 May, Downing Bookshop, St. Ives and STISA
August, Crypt Group, St. Ives
1947 August/September, The Leicester Galleries, London
(Artists of Fame and of Promise)
October/November, Mid-Day Galleries Manchester
November, STISA travelling show, National Museum of Wales
1948 January St. George’s Gallery, London
May, Downing Bookshop, St. Ives. One man show
July, Crypt Group show
1949 Downing Bookshop, St. Ives
1951 January/February Art and Craftsmen from around St. Ives, Heal’s Mansard Gallery
1954 Arthur Tooth & Sons Mayfair/London annual show - until 1959
1956 Bladon Gallery, Hurstbourne Tarrant
Fox & Hounds, Lyndhurst, New Forest
1958 Mailman’s, Lyndhurst
1961 Aldine House (J.M. Dent), London
1965 June, Creative Art Patrons, London
1966 May/June, Bladon Gallery, Hurstbourne Tarrant
1967 Ogilvy & Mather, London
1968 Pace Gallery, Houston, Texas
1969 October, Hamwic Gallery, The Art Shop, Southampton
1969 Beaulieu Gallery (mixed show)
1970 Poole College Festival of Arts
1977 New Art Centre, London, Cornwall 1945-55 (mixed show)
1980 June/July, Higher Gaunts House, Wimborne
1981 November, Wimborne Bookshop
1982 September, Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives
1983 October, New Art Centre
1984 May, Liverpool International Garden Festival
1985 February/MarchTate Gallery, London, St. Ives 1939-64 and
Michael Parkin Fine Art - Cornwall 1925-1975
1986 Yorkshire Sculpture Garden, Wakefield
1987/8 Roche Court, Salisbury
1989 November, Belgrave Gallery, London
1991 Deans Court, Wimborne
Belgrave Gallery, London
1992 Belgrave Gallery, London
1992 Royal West of England Academy
1993 Deans Court, Wimborne
1994 April to October Tate St. Ives, Equivalents for the Megaliths
The Book Gallery and Sims Gallery, St. Ives
1995 Insight, Russell-Cotes, Bournemouth
1997 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner bicentenary, Grasmere, Cumbria
Four Seasons Gallery, Wimborne (further annual shows followed)
Posthumous Exhibitions
2002 Hand & Eye, Study Gallery, Poole
2003 Paintings from Shave Green, St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington
2009 The Dark Monarch, Tate St. Ives
2011 Centenary Celebration, St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington
2012 Sven Berlin: Out of the Shadows, Penlee House Museum & Gallery, Penzance