Robert Eagle Fine Art

23/07/2026

Just came across the work of photographer Justine Tjallink at an unusual exhibition in an old abbey in the rural west of France devoted to highlighting the influence of photography on painting and vice versa. Tjallink’s portraits have more than a tiny touch of Vermeer to them. The show is called “Chambre noire, toile blanche”. Vaut le detour.
Titles are “Despondent” (detail), “Impact passe’ “ and “Grace”

21/07/2026

Artist John Bratby was by all accounts a bit of an animal himself, so maybe it's not surprising that his most vivid works feature our furry friends.

I just bought this wild impasto beast at Bonhams. It's still in its original appalling quality frame - Bratby was an incorrigible skinflint too - so it is now going to Harry Eagle to be fitted with a new cage.

08/06/2026

Family fun! A French schoolteacher asked her pupils to “draw a picture of your family”. She was extremely alarmed when one young boy came up with this. Concerned about violent emotions expressed in the drawing, the teacher urgently summoned the boy’s parents to a meeting with the head and a counsellor.

The boy’s dad was perturbed to see so many agitated staff clustered around his son’s drawing. So he did the obvious thing - which it seems the teachers had neglected to do.

“What’s that a drawing of?” he asked the boy.

“It’s of us when we all went snorkeling on holiday”.

Dad’s conclusion: “I realise that he’s no Picasso - but I think the drawing is rather sweet.”

Story courtesy of Youssef Mansour on Quora: https://fr.quora.com/profile/Youssef-Mansour-113

16/05/2026

16/05/2026

16/01/2026

Grab a slice of still life! This is Cakes (oil on canvas) currently on show with a score of works by Wayne Thiebaud currently at the Courtauld Gallery.

Thiebaud is often lumped together with Pop artists but his aims were different: he was looking for a new way of rendering still life. I’d only ever seen his work in magazines, and they are poor stuff compared with the real thing. I can assure you that the icing on Cakes is even more luscious than the real thing.

The other jpegs are:
2. close up from Cakes;
3. Boston Cremes
4. Pinball Machine
5. 6, 7. background blurbs