Frieze week highlights: the Goya of Aberdeenshire and Cézanne in one piece

Apollo Magazine
September 27, 2019

With hundreds of exhibitions and events vying for your attention in London during Frieze week, Apollo’s editors pick out the shows they don’t want to miss

 ‘Betty Parsons: The Queen of the Circus’ at Alison Jacques Gallery (2 October–9 November)

The International Exhibition of Modern Art at the Armory in New York was a pivotal moment for 10-year-old Betty Parsons in 1913. ‘I decided then that this was the world I wanted… art,’ she later recalled. Though she studied in Paris alongside Alberto Giacometti and was taught by Arshile Gorky back in New York, Parsons’ career as a gallerist from 1946 until her death in 1982 – through which she gave early exhibitions to Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock, among others – would overshadow her work as an artist. Alison Jacques surveys that work from 1951–81, with a group of her bold, abstract paintings and architectural, painted-wood assemblages.

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