Talk starts at 6pm
Join us for a conversation with art historian and critic Charles Darwent, author of the newly published book Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy (2025 /Art Publishing); journalist and Leonora Carrington biographer Joanna Moorhead; and Edward Behrens, editor of Apollo magazine.
The event takes place within the context of the group exhibition Seeds of Surrealism: Women of Monsieur Ozenfant's Academy at Richard Saltoun Gallery London, spotlighting four pioneering Surrealists—Leonora CARRINGTON, Stella SNEAD, Anne SAÏD, and Sari DIENES—whose practices were shaped by the radical yet overlooked Ozenfant Academy of Fine Arts, active in London from 1936 to 1939.
The exhibition marks the launch of Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy, a new book by critic and historian Darwent, published by Art Publishing, and celebrates the gallery’s representation of the Estate of Stella Snead.
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Charles Darwent is an art critic and author. He contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Art Newspaper and Art Review, and was the chief art critic for the Independent on Sunday from 1999–2013. He is the author of Surrealists in New York (2023), Josef Albers: Life and Work (2018) and Mondrian in London: How British Art Nearly Became Modern (2012)