Solo and group exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
1980 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1981 Gillespie-Laage-Salomon, Paris
1982 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1983 Sperone Westwater, New York
1985 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.
Kunsthalle, Basel
1986 Sperone Westwater, New York
1988 DAAD Galerie, Berlin.
Sperone Westwater, New York
Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
1989 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1991 Fifty Etchings, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London.
Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent
1992 Art Center, Pasadena.
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
1994 Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent.
Marlborough Fine Art, London
1995 Astrup Fearnley Museum for Modern Art, Oslo.
Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Four Riders – states and progress – proofs, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
1996 Monotypes 1986–96, Marlborough Graphics, London
1997 The Art of Etching, Courtauld Prints and Drawings Gallery, London.
Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent.
1998 Recent work, Marlborough Fine Art, London
1999 Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston,Texas
2000 Galleri Christian Dam, Oslo.
50 Projects in 50 Weeks, Fig-1, London.
2001 Christopher Le Brun – Monoprints, University Gallery, University of Northumbria, Newcastle.
Cloud Metaphor, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
Paintings and Prints, Galerie J. Aasen, Alesund, Norway
Paintings, Sculpture, Prints, Marlborough Fine Art, London
The Wagner Series 1994: Prints by Christopher Le Brun, The Henry Cole Wing, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2002 Galleri Christian Dam, Copenhagen
2003 Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent
Venice Pictures, Galleria Sottoportego, Venice; Marlborough Graphics, London
2004 The Given – Paintings and Watercolours 2000–2004, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
2005 Lichfield Cathedral. Invited artist, Lichfield Arts Festival.
2008 The New Art Gallery Walsall
Fifty Etchings 2005. Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
2009 Landscapes. Hohenthal und Bergen, Berlin
Sculpture. Kunsthaus Schloss Wendlinghausen, Germany
2010 Twenty Drawings. Abbott and Holder Ltd. London
The Distance. New Paintings and Sculpture. New Art Centre Roche Court
Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Fourallsaints, London
2011 Five Symbolic Images. Bronze and Plaster Sculptures by Christopher Le Brun. One Canada Square Canary Wharf, London
Christopher Le Brun Watercolours. Abbott and Holder Ltd., London
Galerie J. Aasen, Alesund, Norway
Selected group exhibitions
1975 London Group – Camden Arts Centre, London
1977 London Group – Camden Arts Centre, London
1978 John Moores Exhibition XI, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1979 Summer Show III, Serpentine Gallery, London
The Craft of Art, Peter Moores Exhibition VI Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1980 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
Nouva Immagine, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
John Moores Exhibition XII, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1981 Enciclopedia, Galleria Civica, Modena
Fragments against Ruins, Arts Council Exhibition, Midland Group Exhibition and tour
Thirteen British Artists – An exhibition about painting, Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen; Kunstverein Mannheim; Kunstverein Braunschweig; Bündner Kunstverein, Switzerland
1982 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Vision in Disbelief, Sydney Biennale
Mythe, Drame, Tragédie, Musée d’Art Moderne, Sainte-Étienne
Aperto ‘82, Venice Biennale
Zeitgeist, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Myth, Bonlow Gallery, New York
1983 The Granada Collection–Recent British Paintings and Drawings, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Tema Celeste, Museo Civico d’Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina, Sicily
La Forma e L’Informe, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
New Art, Tate Gallery, London
Group Show: Chia, Clemente, Cucchi, Paladino, Le Brun, Garouste, Singer. Sperone Westwater, New York
1984 Il Riso del Universo, San Giovanni Valdarno, Florence
Arte allo Specchio, Venice Biennale
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Group Show: Chia, Cucchi, Clemente, Paladino, Le Brun, Twombly, Venezia. Sperone Westwater, New York
Currents, I.C.A., Boston.
Eine misslungene Ausstellung, Galerie Tanit, Munich (selected by Gerhard Merz)
Dessins, Gillespie-Laage-Salomon, Paris
The Image as Catalyst, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Artists Design for Dance, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1985 Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The British Show, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne; New Zealand National Gallery of Art, Wellington
Nouvelle Paris Biennale, Paris
Romanticism and Primitivism in Art, Lowenadler Gallery, New York
Modern Landscape, Sunderland Arts Centre
Phase II, Stadmuseum, Graz
One City a Patron, Southampton City Art Gallery, touring Glasgow, Dundee, Perth, Ayr and Edinburgh
1986 Forty Years of Modern Art, Tate Gallery, London
Second Sight – Biennale IV, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Matière Première, CAC Corbeil, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais and Galerie Municipale d’Art Contemporain Saint-Priest
Falls the Shadow: Recent British and European Art, Hayward Gallery, London
Twelve British Artists, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
American/European Painting and Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
1987 The Golden Thread?, Harris Museum, Preston
New Edition Prints and Monotypes by Christopher Le Brun, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980’s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Mucsarnok, Budapest; National Gallery, Prague; Zacheta, Warsaw
Paintings & Monotypes, (Le Brun, Oulton, Walker), Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
London/Berlin, Ingrid Raab Gallery, London
Malerei in Europa II, Karl Pfefferle Gallery, Munich
Introducing With Pleasure: Selections from the Arts Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall, London, touring Brighton, Plymouth, Rochester, Stockport and Durham (Le Brun painting selected by Kate Adie)
Art Brittiskt 1980 Tal, Liljevalchs Museum, Stockholm
Brittania - Paintings and Sculpture of the 1980’s, Sara Hilden Museum, Tampere, Finland
Cries and Whispers - New Works for the British Council Collection, Touring Australia
Land: Sea: Air, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury College of Art and Design; Nottingham University Art Gallery
Viewpoint - British Art of the 1980’s, The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels
Prints, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York
Myth and Mystery, Maloney Gallery, Santa Monica
Prints from the Collection, Tate Gallery, London
1987–88 Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art and USA tour
1988 Artists in National Parks, Victoria and Albert Museum, London and tour
The British Picture, L.A. Louver, Venice, California
The Romantic Tradition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; El Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
Collaborations in Monotype, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin; Cleveland Museum of Art
Les Années 80: A la surface de la Peinture, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Abbaye Saint-André, Meymac
R.O.S.C. ‘88, The Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
An Eclectic Eye, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Bridge Centre for Contemporary Art, El Paso, Texas, and tour
The New British Painting, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, travelled to Chicago, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin
1989 Singular Visions, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick; Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
The Forces of Nature, Manchester City Art Gallery; Harris Museum, Preston
1990 The Reconsecration of Abstraction, Thaddeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg
The Art of Drawing, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
British Art Now: A Subjective View, British Council exhibition in Japan (travelled to Setegaya Museum, Fukuoka Museum, Nagoya City Art Museum, Tochiga Museum of Fine Arts, Hyogo Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art)
1991 Melankoli: Nordisk Romantisk Malerie, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
1992 Des Dessins, Centre Scolaire et Sportif des Deux Thielles le Landeron; Kunstsammlung Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (selected by Martin Disler)
1993 De Chirico et ses Conséquences Post-Métaphysiques, Artcurial, Paris
Modern Graphic Art in Britain, British Museum, London
Drawing on these Shores, Harris Museum, Preston & Tour
Contemporary Prints, Recent Gifts to the Collection, Tate Gallery
1994 Accrochage, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Extremes Meet, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
Le Brun, Campbell, Oulton, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1995 Dialogue with De Kooning, Royal College of Art, London
An American Passion, The Susan Kasen Summer and Robert D. Summer Collection of Contemporary British Painting, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; Royal College of Art, London
Impressions of Nature, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art Works: The Paine Webber Collection of Contemporary Masters, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, tour to Detroit, Boston, Minneapolis, San Diego, Miami
Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven; McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas
1996 Christopher Le Brun, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Jaume Plensa, Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris
The East Wing Collection of Contemporary Art, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London
A Century of European Prints, Marlborough Graphics, London
1997 Recent Publications, Marlborough Graphics, London
Christopher Le Brun, Ludwig Vandevelde, Recent Work. Galerie Fortlaan17, Ghent, Belgium.
1998 Isn’t it too early for the eighties yet?, Rooseum, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Malmö, Sweden
1999 Light of the World, Edinburgh City Art Centre, Edinburgh.
A Personal View of British Painting and Sculpture 1945 – 1999 selected by Bryan Robertson, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, travelling to City Art Gallery, Leicester
2000 Modern Art despite Modernism. Museum of Modern Art, New York
Recent Portrait Commissions, National Portrait Gallery, London
Encounters: New Art from Old, The National Gallery, London.
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London.
The Landscape Revisited, (Le Brun, Hodgkin, Bartlett) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Le Brun, Campbell, Oulton, Davies, Raab Galerie, Berlin.
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent,
Bronze: an exhibition of contemporary sculpture, Holland Park, London
Painting and Patronage, Faisalieh Building, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2001 Assig, Kirkeby, Le Brun, Plensa, Tal-Coat, Galerie Vidal Saint-Phalle, Paris.
Painting, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
Art Works. British and German Contemporary Works from the Collection. 1960–2000. Deutsche Bank, London
20th Century British Art. James Hyman Fine Art, London
Prints. Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta.
New Commissions, New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Roche Court, Wiltshire
2002 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
2003 Escuela de Londres, Marlborough Madrid; Centro Cultural
Caja de Granada; Puerta Real, Granada.
Representing the World, Frisseras Museum, Athens
Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Hope Sufferance- Contemporary British Art in Print. Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
Christopher Le Brun, Bill Jacklin - Prints. North House Gallery, Manningtree, Essex.
Sterling Stuff- Sculpture in Silver, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
2004 Wiedergefundene Malerei Paintings by Christopher Le Brun, Gerd van Dulmen, Markus Lupertz, Odd Nerdrum, Thomas Schindler. Raab Galerie, Berlin
Presence, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
Bestiae Animatae (Bezielde dieren), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen
A Particular View, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, exhibited in Florence and Siena.
2005 Contemporary Voices, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Spirit of Landscape in British Printmaking, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Drawings, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin.
Gardens of Earthly Delight, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin and Irish tour
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
International Artists, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
2006 Morandi’s Legacy: Influences on British Art. Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria; The Estorick Collection, London.
Spotlight - Works on Paper by Twentieth Century and Contemporary Artists. Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta. Cross Reference. Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
Anthropography III, Frissiras Museum, Athens
Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal.
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Gardens of Earthly Delight, Flowers Graphics, London
Literary Circles. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Drawing from Turner. Tate Britain. London.
2007 Venice: City of Dreams? Sotheby's London.
Sweet Powder. Prints from Atelier Michael Woolworth. Grandes Galeries - Aitre Saint-Maclou Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.
Modern Art Now: From Hockney to Hepworth to Hirst. Touring to four National Trust houses and the Aldeburgh Festival: Nunnington Hall, Stowe School, Aldeburgh Festival, Erddig, Petworth House.
The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
Group Show. Contemporary British Painting. The Drawing Schools Gallery, Eton College, Eton.
Land, Sea and in the Air. Galerie Fortlaan 17 Ghent. 22.9.07-10.11.07
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition. The Mall Galleries, London 15.11.07-25.11.07
2008 Hugh Stoneman. Master printer. Tate St. Ives.
Exacting Standards. A tribute to Hugh Stoneman, master printer 1947 - 2005. Lemon Street Gallery. Truro
On Time. Courtauld East Wing Collection 8. Courtauld Institute. London
Brilliant. Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Buren, Deacon, Le Brun, Wallinger, Whiteread. Ebbsfleet Landmark Proposals. Bluewater, Kent
The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
Four Painters. Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta. 12.9.08-11.10.08
UBS Openings: Paintings from the 1980's. Tate Modern. 12.11.08-13.4.09
Fresh Out of the Box. Recent acquisitions. The New Art Gallery Walsall. 14.10.08-14.10.09
Winter Journey. Art Space Gallery. Michael Richardson Contemporary Art. London 5.12.08-10.1.09
2009 Artists Proof. Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. 15.1.09 - 19.4.09 Touring to Wexford, Bristol, Bray, Dublin, Belfast, Monaghan to 2010
7th British International Mini Print Exhibition. Invited artist. Printmakers Council Gallery London. 27.3.09-18.4.09 and tour to 2010
The 241st Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Burlington House London. 8.6.09-16.8.09
Rauminszeneriungen. Schloss Wendlinghausen, Germany
Past Present Future 2 - Twentieth anniversary exhibition - Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent
Painting of the 1980's. Matthew Bown Gallery. Berlin
2010 Watercolour in Britain: Travelling with Colour. Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery. 30.1.10 - 18.4.10, Millenium Galleries Sheffield 17.6.10 - 5.9.10, Laing Art Gallery Newcastle 18.9.10 - 5.12.10
Modernist Realism. The School of London from Andrews to O'Donoghue. James Hyman Gallery. London. 25.2.10 - 1.5.10
Double Interview. I-MYU Projects, London, Artspace Hue and Seogyo Art Centre, Seoul Korea 24.4.10-28.5.10
Art Medal World Congress Fidem XXXI Exhibition: The Art Medal in a Global World Tampere Museum Finland 17.6 - 29.8.10
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy of Arts London 14.6.10 - 22.8.10
Structured Elegance: Bookbindings and Jewelry by Romilly Saumarez Smith. The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. 24.6.10 - 19.9.10
Scultura Internazionale A Racconigi 2010 - Presente ed esperienza del passato. International Sculpture Biennale. Castello Racconigi. Italy 6.6.10 - 10.10.10
John Moores Painting Prize. Seongnam Art Centre, Korea 6.8.10 - 14.10.10
Inspired by Soane. Sir John Soane's Museum, London 10.9.10 - 2.10.10
Elements of Nature - Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. Contemporary Art Center New Orleans. 6.11.10 - 27.2.10
2011 Watercolour. Tate Britain London 16.2.11 - 21.8.11
Sculpture. Galerie Fortlaan 17 Ghent 25.2.11 - 30.4.11
Fine Form: The Horse in Art. Summerfield Gallery University of Gloucestershire. Organised by Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery 12.3.11 - 30.4.11
Elements of Nature - Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. Brevard Art Museum Florida 2.4.11 - 19.6.11
Atelier Michael Woolworth. Sous pression, a Chatellerault. Ecole d'Arts Plastiques Centre d'art Contemporain Chatellerault 9.4.11 - 1.6.11
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London 7.6.11 - 15.8.11
British Art: Royal Academicians. Seongnam Art Centre, Korea 1.7.11 - 25.9.11
Forces of Nature - Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge 22.10.11 - 15.1.12
Biography in detail
1951 Christopher Mark Le Brun born in Portsmouth, Hampshire.
1963–70 Portsmouth Southern Grammar School for Boys. Attends Life drawing classes at Portsmouth College of Art
1970–74 The Slade School of Fine Art, London (DFA); teaching staff included Sir William Coldstream, Reg Butler, Stuart Brisley, Jeffrey Camp, Bernard Cohen, Rita Donagh, Noel Forster, Patrick George, Anthony Green, Anthony Gross, John Hoyland, Malcolm Hughes, Tess Jaray, Michael Moon, John Maclean, Bartolomeu Dos Santos and Euan Uglow. Visitors included Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin and R.B. Kitaj
1974–75 Chelsea School of Art (MA), staff included Ian Stephenson and Sean Scully. Fellow students included Mikey Cuddihy, Sarah Greengrass, James Hugonin, Roger Kite, Jock Macfadyen, Simon Read and Keir Smith
1975–76 Studio Manager at the Slade; studied stone carving with Heinz Henghes in SW France
1975–78 SPACE studio overlooking the Thames at Wapping Wall, East London
1976–83 Visiting Lecturer at Brighton, Chelsea, The Slade and Wimbledon Schools of Art. Teaching colleagues included Roger Ackling, Bernard Cohen, Prunella Clough, Stephen Cox, Maggi Hambling, John Hilliard, Andre Jackowski, Antony Gormley, Ian Mc Keever, Hugh O' Donell, Nicholas Pope, Jo Volley. In this period lectures and visits to art schools throughout the country, including Belfast, Central, Cardiff, Coventry, Exeter, Doncaster, Ravensbourne and Saint Martins
1977–80 ACME artists housing association house and studio in Burdett Road, Limehouse (since demolished)
1978 John Moores XI, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (prize winner).
1979 Marries the painter Charlotte Verity
1980 John Moores XII, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (prizewinner). Moves to Banyard Road, Bermondsey; ACME studio Bethnal Green. Represented by the Nigel Greenwood Gallery (until 1992)
1982 Exhibits in Venice, West Berlin and Saint-Etienne
1983 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Printmakers Commission Award First published etching. First trip to New York
1984 Designer, Ballet Imperial (choreographer Georges Balanchine), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Son, Luke, born at home
1985 Moves to Camberwell; studio at Asylum Road, Peckham; invited to the Garner Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara, California to make monotypes. Subsequent visits in 1989 and with Richard Tullis in 1995 and 1999
1986 Exhibits in Vienna. Daughter, Lily, born at home
1987–88 Guest of the Berlin Artists’ Programme of the D.A.A.D. Lives in West Berlin with a studio in the Moabit district; travels to East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Finland
1988–95 Studio in Love Walk, Camberwell
1989 First prints published by Charles Booth–Clibborn of the Paragon Press (Seven Lithographs); drives coast to coast Los Angeles to Philadelphia, USA
1990 Fifty Etchings. First of many projects with Peter Kosowicz and Simon Marsh of Hope Sufferance Press; son, Edmund, born at home
1990–95 Trustee, Tate Gallery, London
1990–96 Studio in Muchelney Ham, Somerset
1991 Travels to Denmark
1992 Following the closure of the Nigel Greenwood Gallery joins Marlborough Fine Art. Travels to Japan and Hong Kong
1994 Wagner prints. First collaboration with Hugh Stoneman
1993 Visiting Artist, Studio Center, Vermont, USA
1995 Drawings and Etching for Ted Hughes Shakespeare's Ovid published by Enitharmon Press; visiting artist, the New York Studio School
1996 The Parables; Jerusalem Trust Commission for paintings for the choir of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
1996–2003 Trustee, National Gallery, London
1996 Elected to the Royal Academy
of Arts, London; studio at Warner Road, Camberwell; first bronze casts with AB Foundry, London
1997 Painting masterclass, Boston University USA; lecture Symbolism in Britain, Tate Britain
1998 Guest speaker, International Colour Symposium, Oslo, Norway; lectures on British Art, Minneapolis Institute of The Arts, USA
1999 Begins a series of stone lithographs with Michael Woolworth, Isle Saint–Louis, Paris
1999–2000 National Portrait Gallery Commission, Portrait of
George Steiner
2000–2002 Professor of Drawing, Royal Academy (inaugural appointment, followed by Sir Peter Blake 2002–4 and Gary Hume 2004–6); visit to Rome
2000–2005 Trustee, Dulwich Picture
Gallery, London
2001 Invited to paint in Saudi Arabia by Prince Khalid Al–Faisal Al–Saud; Visiting Artist, Southern Methodist University(SMU) Dallas, Texas, USA
2002 During September works in Venice at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica on the Venice Pictures series of monotypes
2003– Trustee, The Prince’s Drawing School, London. Watercolour painting series begins
2004 Establishes a sculpture studio in Suffolk. Invited to Ireland to print with Graphic Studio Dublin.
2005 Awarded the Turner Medal, Winsor and Newton
Watercolour Prize at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Working throughout the year on 50 Etchings 2005
2006 Designs the new Britannia gold and silver bullion coins for the Royal Mint.
2007 Invited to design a medal for the British Art Medal Society. Wins a competition to design a new 50 pence coin for the Royal Mint commemorating the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew
2008 Shortlisted for the Ebbsfleet Landmark Commission. Works in Dublin at Graphic Studio on a new etching for the exhibition Artists Proof. Commissioned by Hammerson plc to design a 10 metre high bronze sculpture for the City of London on the site of the old Stock Exchange.
2009 Sculpture commission from Dandara for St. Helier Jersey.
Guest artist for issue 7 of the online publication The International Literary Quarterly
2010 Contributing Speaker, Watts Symposium Decorating Sacred Spaces St. Paul's Cathedral.
Awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the University of the Arts London.
2011 Exhibition co-ordinator Royal Academy Summer Show.
Elected President of the Royal Academy 8.12.11
Lives and works in London and Suffolk.
Selected bibliography
1981 Flavio Caroli, Enciclopedia: Il
Magico Primario in Europa, Galeria Civica, Modena
Alister Warman and Wolfgang Becker, Thirteen British
Artists: An Exhibition about Painting, Aachen
1982 Timothy Hyman, 13 British Artists
at Aachen, Artscribe, No. 33, February
Flavio Caroli, Magico Primario, Iterarte, Vol. 8, No.
23, pp. 5 - 27, April
R. Puvogel, 13 Britische Künstler: eine Ausstellung über
Malerei, Kunstwerk, Vol. 35, p. 68, April
Tony Godfrey, Christopher Le Brun, The Fine Art Letter, Vol.6, May
A. Beaton, New Painting in Britain, Flashart, No. 108, Summer
John McEwen, Thinking Big, The Spectator, 12 June
Waldemar Januszcak, The Guardian, 22 June
Richard Cork, Haunted by the Horse, The Standard, 24 June
Edward Lucie-Smith, London Letter: Christopher Le Brun, Art
International, Vol XXV, No. 7–8, pp. 68–69 September/October
Achille Bonito Oliva, Ed., International Transavantguarde, Giancarlo
Ed., Milan
Achille Bonito Oliva, Essays, Jacques Beauffet and Bernard Ceysson,
Eds.
Myth, Drame, Tragédie, Musée d’Art Moderne,
Saint-Etienne
William Wright and Lynn, Fourth Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Christos
M. Joachimedes and Norman Rosenthal, Eds., Zeitgeist,
Robert Rosenblum, Essay, pp. 12–15,
illus. pp 173–175, Kunstbuch, Berlin,
Demetrio Paperoni, Tema Celeste, Museo
Civico d’arte Contemporanea, Gibellina
Flavio Caroli, La Forma e L’Informe, Galeria d’Arte
Moderna, Bologna
1983 Flavio Caroli, and Statements by the
artists, Magico
Primario: L’Arte Degli Anni Ottanta, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri
Robin Vousden, The Granada Collection:
Recent British Paintings and Drawings, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Michael Compton, New Art, The Tate Gallery, London
Sperone Westwater, Christopher Le Brun, (exhibition
catalogue), New York
John McEwen, Report from London in the Year of
the Falklands, Art in America, Vol. 71, No. 2, February, pp. 17–23
Barbara Rose, In Berlin, The Spirit of the Times, Zeitgeist, Vogue Vol.
173, No. 2, February, pp. 296–301, 344
Deborah Drieer, Mythic Image, Artnews,
Vol. 82, No. 2,
February, pp.80–83
Donald B. Kuspit, Zeitgeist: Art’s attempt to give a spirit to the
times, Vanguard, Vol. 12, No. 4, May, pp. 20–23
Sarah Kent, Between two territories: a way forward in British Painting, Flashart, No.
111, Summer, pp. 40–46
Bryan Robertson, A new safety curtain for Covent Garden by Christopher
Le Brun, Burlington Magazine, Vol. CXXV, No. 964, July, pp. 422–425
Lynne
Cooke, Kiefer; Five at Nigel Greenwood’s, Art Monthly, No. 69
September, pp. 15–17
John Russell, Christopher Le Brun, The New York Times, 14 October,
p. C23
John McEwen, A brush with the young masters, Sunday Times Magazine, 23
October
Roberta Smith, Art Forays, The Village Voice, Vol. XXVIII, No. 43,
25 October, p. 93
Donald Kuspit, Christopher Le Brun at Sperone Westwater Artforum, Vol. XXII, No. 4, December, pp. 81–82
John
Lavelle Christopher Le Brun at Sperone Westwater, New York, Artscribe, No.44, December, p. 60
1984 Michael Kohn, Flashart, No. 115, January,
pp. 34–35
Michael Kohn, Mannerism and Contemporary Art: The Style and its Critics, Vol.
58, No. 7, March
Michael Shepherd, Artists for the 1990’s Framing for
the Future, Sunday
Telegraph Magazine, 1 July
Russell Keziere, Tiresius Unbound, Vanguard, Vol. 13, No. 7, September,
pp. 8–12 and cover
Tony Godrey, Romantic Painting in the Age of Materialism, Artscribe, No. 48, September/October
Eine Misslungene
Ausstellung, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Tanit, Munich
Phyllis Freeman, Eric Himmel, Edith Pavese
and Anne Yarowsky, Eds, New Art, Harry N. Abrams, New York
Kynaston
McShine, An International Survey of
Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Elizabeth
Sussman, Currents: Christopher Le Brun, ICA, Boston
Marie-George Gervasoni,
Ed., XLI Esposizione
Internationale d’Arte: La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Maurizio Calvesi,
Giancarlo Politi, Il Riso del Universo, Florence
Maurizio Calvesi,
Attualita e Storia, Venice Biennale catalogue and Arte
allo Specchio, Venice Biennale
1985 Stephen Bann, with forewords by Jean-Christophe
Ammann and
Mark Francis, Christopher Le Brun Paintings 1984–1985, The
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Bryan Robertson, Programme Note, Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden, for Ballet Imperial, 25 February
Horses in
Twentieth Century Art, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
Terry Anne R Neff Selections from
the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Caroline Collier, White Horses....Christopher Le Brun
, Studio International, Vol.
198, No. 1010, pp. 14–17
Andrew Brighton, Artscribe, No. 54, September/October,
pp. 57–58
Caroline Collier, Flashart, No. 124, October/November,
pp. 55–56
Stuart Morgan, Artforum, November, XXIV, No. 3, pp. 118–119
Georges
Boudaille, Jean Pierre Faye, Alanna Heiss, Gerald Gassiot- Talabot,
Achille Bonito Oliva, Marie Luise Syring, Pierre Courcelles,
1985 La Nouvelle
Biennale de Paris 1985, Paris
Tony Godfrey, Christopher Le Brun Paintings, Arnolfini, Bristol
Lynne Cooke, The British Show, catalogue for British Council travelling exhibition
in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and
Melbourne
1986 Mel Gooding, 12 British Artists, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Ronald Alley, 40 Years of Modern Art, The Tate Gallery, London
Barry Barker and Jon Thompson, Eds,
Falls the Shadow, Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune, 4 May, Section 13, p.8
Vivien Raynor, The New York Times, 9 May, p. C28
Kay Larson, New York Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 22, 2 June, p. 66
Lynne Cooke, Flashart, No. 129, Summer, p. 73
Donald Kuspit, Artforum, Vol. XXV, No. 1, September, pp. 131
C.J.
Should be seen by those who enjoy
drawing, The Orcadian, 4 September
Graham W.J. Beal, Second Sight Biennial IV,
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Tony Godfrey, The
New Image - Painting in the 1980’s, Phaidon Press, London
Michael
Pidgley, The Tragi-Comical History
of B.R. Haydon’s ‘Marcus Curtius Leaping in to the Gulf, Exeter
College of
Art and Design and Exeter City Museum, pp. 39–42 and illus.
Charles Jencks,
Post Modernism, Academy Editions, London
The Tate Gallery
Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982–84, texts and
illustrations, pp. 225–228
1987 Howard Fox, Avant-Garde in the
Eighties, Los
Angeles
Arts – Booting our Bloomsbury: Modern Art
in Britain owes much more to a handful of artists than has been hitherto
recognized, The Economist, 14 November, p. 108
Donald Kuspit, Viewpoint, (catalogue accompanying exhibition, with introduction
by
Richard Cork), Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique,
Brussels, December, pp. 76–79
David Reason, Iain Biggs, Land: Sea: Air, (catalogue accompanying exhibition) text and illus.
Brenda Richardson, Nora Halpern, Selections
from the F.R. Weisman Collection, catalogue
P.B., Pferde im Siegerkranz (Basel: Christopher Le Brun)
1988 Keith Patrick,
Romantic Roots, British Painting in the1980’s,
Modern Painters, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 47–50
Judith Higgins, Painted
Dreams – Experimenting within a Tradition of Landscape, Figurative and Narrative
Art Artnews, February, pp. 120–122
Roberta Smith, New York
Times, 29 April
John Welchman, A Softer Euphoria, Art International, Summer,
pp. 54–58
Donald Kuspit, Artforum, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, September,
p. 136
Norbert Messler, Artscribe International, November
Eileen Myles,
Christopher Le Brun, Art in America, December, p. 154
Tony Godfrey, Classicism in Painting Today,
Art & Design, Vol. 4, No. 5/6, pp. 48–52
Hugh Cumming, New Figurative
Art, Art & Design, Vol. 4, No. 9/10, p. 58
Robert Rosenblum, Romanticism and
Retrospection, Art & Design, Vol. 4, No. 11/12, pp.
6–19
Keith Patrick, Romanticism and the
Modernist Myth, Art & Design, Vol. 4, No. 11/12, pp. 42–49
Stephan
Schmidt-Wulffen, Ursula Frohne, daadgalerie, Berlin, Christopher
Le Brun - Baumbilder - Malerei und Monotypien, (exhibition
catalogue)
Phyliss Plous, Kenneth Baker, Collaborations in Monotype, University
Art Museum, Santa Barbara
Catherine Lampert, The British Picture, L.A. Louver
Gallery, Los Angeles,
p. 13, illus. pp. 42–43
Lewis Biggs, Cries and Whispers, New
Works for the British Council Collection, Text and illus. pp. 32–33
Edward Lucie-Smith, Carolyn Cohen, Judith Higgins, The
New British Painting, Phaidon Press, Oxford
Aidan Dunne, Rosemary Mulcahy, ROSC ‘88, Dublin, catalogue
Balkon mit Fächer, catalogue to the exhibition ‘25
Years of the
Berlin Artists’ Programme’
Carolyn Bissière, Jean-Paul Blancher, Les Années ‘80, Meymac, (exhibition
catalogue)
Artists in National Parks, Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
(exhibition catalogue)
Malerei, Painting, Peinture, No. 5, published by Stefan Szczesny,
Munich, illus. pp. 32–35
The Tate Gallery Illustrated Biannual Report, 1986–88, illus.
and text p. 94
Keith Patrick, The Romantic Tradition in Contemporary British
Painting
El Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
1989 School of London, Works on paper, Odette
Gilbert Gallery, illus. and text p. 46
Stephen Bann, The True Vine, Cambridge University Press pp.194-198, 247
Brian Redhead, The Inspiration of Landscape, Phaidon Press,
Oxford, pp. 65–68
Alistair Hicks, The School of London – the Resurgence
of Contemporary Painting, Phaidon Press, Oxford
Marco Livingstone, British Figurative Painters of the
80’s, Art Random
Christopher Le Brun Paintings, 1987-89, exhibition catalogue published
by Nigel Greenwood
David Lee, Darkest fears on canvas, The Times, 14 November
David Lillington, Christopher Le Brun, Time Out, 13–20 December
1989–90 Margaret
Drabble, The Forces of Nature, Manchester City Art Gallery;
Harris Museum, Preston
1990 Edward Lucie-Smith, Art in the
Eighties, Phaidon
Press,
Oxford and New York, p. 48
Bryan Robertson, Christopher Le Brun,
Burlington Magazine, March, No. 1044, pp. 227–228
Simon Morley, Christopher Le Brun, Tema Celeste 73, April-June
1990–91 Henry
Meyric Hughes, Hunichi Shioda, Andrew Graham-Dixon, Akio
Obigane,
British Art Now: A Subjective View, British Council Travelling Exhibition
in Japan
1991 Stephen Bann, Christopher Le Brun:
Fifty Etchings, Paragon Press, London
Daniel Wheeler Art Since Mid Century, Thames and Hudson
Simon Wilson, Tate Gallery - An illustrated companion
Erik Fischer et al., Melankoli: Nordisk
Romantisk Malerei (exhibition catalogue)
Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Tony Godfrey, British Painting for the
90’s, Art in America, April, pp. 145-153
1991 Colin Wiggins, Christopher
Le Brun: Fifty Etchings, Print Quarterly, June, pp. 145–153
Christopher
Le Brun, Georgio Morandi Etchings, Tate Gallery
Catalogue, pp. 33–36
Andrew Wilson, ‘God’s Acre’:
Contemporary British Landscape Painting, Kunst und Museum Journal 2, No. 6
1992 Stephen Nowlin, Introduction and Interview
with Christopher Le Brun; Kay Larson, An Apologia for Abstract Painting, exhibition
catalogue, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California,
9 February–5 April
Christopher Knight, High Romance Meets High Tech in Pasadena, Los
Angeles Times, 18 February
Mario Cutajar, Fade Into Darkness &ndash Christopher
Le Brun at the Art Center College of Design and L.A. Louver, Artweek, 5 March, Vol. 23, No. 9
1993 Robert Rosenblum, A Postscript: Some Recent Neo-Romantic Mutations, Art Journal, Vol. 52, No.2, Romanticism (Summer, 1993), pp. 74-84
Jean Hohbarr, La Nostalgie de l’Infini - De
Chirico: le Grand Retour, Le Choc du Mois, March, No. 62 Tête à Tête,
April
Jean-Louis Pinte, De Chirico Le Premier Maître, Figaroscope, 7
April
Toujours de Chirico, Connaissance des Arts, April
Donna Landry and Gerald Maclean, Feminist Theory, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford
A Year of Art for London Lighthouse: British Painting, London Lighthouse
Don
Williams and Colin Simpson, Art Now - Issues in Contemporary Art post
1970, McGraw-Hill Book Co. Melbourne, Australia
500 Contemporary Artists, MM Editions, Suresnes, France
1994 Colin Wiggins,
The ‘Rider’Series Four New Etchings by
Christopher Le Brun, Print Quarterly, Vo. XI, 1
Jeff Wright, Preserving
the Future – Three British Painters Are Back in New
York, Cover Magazine, New York, September
Bryan Robertson,
Christopher Le Brun Paintings 1991–94, catalogue introduction, Marlborough
Fine Art, London
1994–5 Andrew Gibbon Williams, Mary Rose Beaumont,
Susie Allan and Stefan van Raay: An American Passion: The Susan Kasen Summer
and
Robert D Summer Collection of Contemporary British Painting, McLellan
Galleries, Glasgow: Royal College of Art, London
1995 Timo Valjakka, Hans-Jakob Brun, Christopher
Le Brun, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art exhibition
catalogue, Oslo
Robert Anderson, Wagner and the English Literary Scene,
Siegfried at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, March-April
Clare Henry, Christopher Le Brun, Galleries Magazine, August
Prints seen as a series, Art Review, November
Craig Hartley, Four Riders – states and progress-proofs, exhibition
catalogue Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Patrick Elliot, Jeremy Lewison, Duncan Macmillan, Contemporary
British Art in Print, p16-18; 134–149
1996 Robert Rosenblum, Towards a new millenium. Catalogue essay, the Berardo Collection, Sintra Museum of Modern Art.
Sarah Hyde, Christopher Le Brun Interview, in booklet accompanying The Art of Etching exhibition at
the Courtauld
Gallery, London
1994 Wagner prints. First collaboration with Hugh Stoneman
1993 Visiting Artist, Studio Center, Vermont, USA
1995 Drawings and Etching for Ted Hughes Shakespeare's Ovid published by Enitharmon Press; visiting artist, the New York Studio School
1996 The Parables; Jerusalem Trust Commission for paintings for the choir of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
1996–2003 Trustee, National Gallery, London
1996 Elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, London; studio at Warner Road, Camberwell; first bronze casts with AB Foundry, London
1997 Painting masterclass, Boston University USA; lecture Symbolism in Britain, Tate Britain
1998 Guest speaker, International Colour Symposium, Oslo, Norway; lectures on British Art, Minneapolis Institute of The Arts, USA
1999 Begins a series of stone lithographs with Michael Woolworth, Isle Saint–Louis, Paris
1999–2000 National Portrait Gallery Commission, Portrait of George Steiner
2000–2002 Professor of Drawing, Royal Academy (inaugural appointment, followed by Sir Peter Blake 2002–4 and Gary Hume 2004–6); visit to Rome
2000–2005 Trustee, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
2001 Invited to paint in Saudi Arabia by Prince Khalid Al–Faisal Al–Saud; Visiting Artist, Southern Methodist University(SMU) Dallas, Texas, USA
2002 During September works in Venice at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica on the Venice Pictures series of monotypes
2003– Trustee, The Prince’s Drawing School, London. Watercolour painting series begins
2004 Establishes a sculpture studio in Suffolk. Invited to Ireland to print with Graphic Studio Dublin.
2005 Awarded the Turner Medal, Winsor and Newton Watercolour Prize at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Working throughout the year on 50 Etchings 2005
2006 Designs the new Britannia gold and silver bullion coins for the Royal Mint.
2007 Invited to design a medal for the British Art Medal Society. Wins a competition to design a new 50 pence coin for the Royal Mint commemorating the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew
2008 Shortlisted for the Ebbsfleet Landmark Commission. Works in Dublin at Graphic Studio on a new etching for the exhibition Artists Proof. Commissioned by Hammerson plc to design a 10 metre high bronze sculpture for the City of London on the site of the old Stock Exchange.
2009 Sculpture commission from Dandara for St. Helier Jersey.
Guest artist for issue 7 of the online publication The International Literary Quarterly
2010 Contributing Speaker, Watts Symposium Decorating Sacred Spaces St. Paul's Cathedral.
Awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the University of the Arts London.
2011 Exhibition co-ordinator Royal Academy Summer Show.
Elected President of the Royal Academy 8.12.11
Lives and works in London and Suffolk.
Selected bibliography
1981 Flavio Caroli, Enciclopedia: Il
Magico Primario in Europa, Galeria Civica, Modena
Alister Warman and Wolfgang Becker, Thirteen British Artists: An Exhibition about Painting, Aachen
1982 Timothy Hyman, 13 British Artists at Aachen, Artscribe, No. 33, February
Flavio Caroli, Magico Primario, Iterarte, Vol. 8, No. 23, pp. 5 - 27, April
R. Puvogel, 13 Britische Künstler: eine Ausstellung über Malerei, Kunstwerk, Vol. 35, p. 68, April
Tony Godfrey, Christopher Le Brun, The Fine Art Letter, Vol.6, May
A. Beaton, New Painting in Britain, Flashart, No. 108, Summer
John McEwen, Thinking Big, The Spectator, 12 June
Waldemar Januszcak, The Guardian, 22 June
Richard Cork, Haunted by the Horse, The Standard, 24 June
Edward Lucie-Smith, London Letter: Christopher Le Brun, Art International, Vol XXV, No. 7–8, pp. 68–69 September/October
Achille Bonito Oliva, Ed., International Transavantguarde, Giancarlo Ed., Milan
Achille Bonito Oliva, Essays, Jacques Beauffet and Bernard Ceysson, Eds.
Myth, Drame, Tragédie, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne
William Wright and Lynn, Fourth Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Christos M. Joachimedes and Norman Rosenthal, Eds., Zeitgeist, Robert Rosenblum, Essay, pp. 12–15, illus. pp 173–175, Kunstbuch, Berlin,
Demetrio Paperoni, Tema Celeste, Museo Civico d’arte Contemporanea, Gibellina
Flavio Caroli, La Forma e L’Informe, Galeria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
1983 Flavio Caroli, and Statements by the artists, Magico Primario: L’Arte Degli Anni Ottanta, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri
Robin Vousden, The Granada Collection: Recent British Paintings and Drawings, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Michael Compton, New Art, The Tate Gallery, London
Sperone Westwater, Christopher Le Brun, (exhibition catalogue), New York
John McEwen, Report from London in the Year of the Falklands, Art in America, Vol. 71, No. 2, February, pp. 17–23
Barbara Rose, In Berlin, The Spirit of the Times, Zeitgeist, Vogue Vol. 173, No. 2, February, pp. 296–301, 344
Deborah Drieer, Mythic Image, Artnews, Vol. 82, No. 2, February, pp.80–83
Donald B. Kuspit, Zeitgeist: Art’s attempt to give a spirit to the times, Vanguard, Vol. 12, No. 4, May, pp. 20–23
Sarah Kent, Between two territories: a way forward in British Painting, Flashart, No. 111, Summer, pp. 40–46
Bryan Robertson, A new safety curtain for Covent Garden by Christopher Le Brun, Burlington Magazine, Vol. CXXV, No. 964, July, pp. 422–425
Lynne Cooke, Kiefer; Five at Nigel Greenwood’s, Art Monthly, No. 69 September, pp. 15–17
John Russell, Christopher Le Brun, The New York Times, 14 October, p. C23
John McEwen, A brush with the young masters, Sunday Times Magazine, 23 October
Roberta Smith, Art Forays, The Village Voice, Vol. XXVIII, No. 43, 25 October, p. 93
Donald Kuspit, Christopher Le Brun at Sperone Westwater Artforum, Vol. XXII, No. 4, December, pp. 81–82
John Lavelle Christopher Le Brun at Sperone Westwater, New York, Artscribe, No.44, December, p. 60
1984 Michael Kohn, Flashart, No. 115, January, pp. 34–35
Michael Kohn, Mannerism and Contemporary Art: The Style and its Critics, Vol. 58, No. 7, March
Michael Shepherd, Artists for the 1990’s Framing for the Future, Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 1 July
Russell Keziere, Tiresius Unbound, Vanguard, Vol. 13, No. 7, September, pp. 8–12 and cover
Tony Godrey, Romantic Painting in the Age of Materialism, Artscribe, No. 48, September/October
Eine Misslungene Ausstellung, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Tanit, Munich
Phyllis Freeman, Eric Himmel, Edith Pavese and Anne Yarowsky, Eds, New Art, Harry N. Abrams, New York
Kynaston McShine, An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Elizabeth Sussman, Currents: Christopher Le Brun, ICA, Boston
Marie-George Gervasoni, Ed., XLI Esposizione Internationale d’Arte: La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Maurizio Calvesi, Giancarlo Politi, Il Riso del Universo, Florence
Maurizio Calvesi, Attualita e Storia, Venice Biennale catalogue and Arte allo Specchio, Venice Biennale
1985 Stephen Bann, with forewords by Jean-Christophe Ammann and Mark Francis, Christopher Le Brun Paintings 1984–1985, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Bryan Robertson, Programme Note, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for Ballet Imperial, 25 February
Horses in Twentieth Century Art, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
Terry Anne R Neff Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Caroline Collier, White Horses....Christopher Le Brun , Studio International, Vol. 198, No. 1010, pp. 14–17
Andrew Brighton, Artscribe, No. 54, September/October, pp. 57–58
Caroline Collier, Flashart, No. 124, October/November, pp. 55–56
Stuart Morgan, Artforum, November, XXIV, No. 3, pp. 118–119
Georges Boudaille, Jean Pierre Faye, Alanna Heiss, Gerald Gassiot- Talabot, Achille Bonito Oliva, Marie Luise Syring, Pierre Courcelles,
1985 La Nouvelle Biennale de Paris 1985, Paris
Tony Godfrey, Christopher Le Brun Paintings, Arnolfini, Bristol
Lynne Cooke, The British Show, catalogue for British Council travelling exhibition in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne
1986 Mel Gooding, 12 British Artists, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Ronald Alley, 40 Years of Modern Art, The Tate Gallery, London
Barry Barker and Jon Thompson, Eds, Falls the Shadow, Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune, 4 May, Section 13, p.8
Vivien Raynor, The New York Times, 9 May, p. C28
Kay Larson, New York Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 22, 2 June, p. 66
Lynne Cooke, Flashart, No. 129, Summer, p. 73
Donald Kuspit, Artforum, Vol. XXV, No. 1, September, pp. 131
C.J. Should be seen by those who enjoy drawing, The Orcadian, 4 September
Graham W.J. Beal, Second Sight Biennial IV, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Tony Godfrey, The New Image - Painting in the 1980’s, Phaidon Press, London
Michael Pidgley, The Tragi-Comical History of B.R. Haydon’s ‘Marcus Curtius Leaping in to the Gulf, Exeter College of Art and Design and Exeter City Museum, pp. 39–42 and illus.
Charles Jencks, Post Modernism, Academy Editions, London
The Tate Gallery Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982–84, texts and illustrations, pp. 225–228
1987 Howard Fox, Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles
Arts – Booting our Bloomsbury: Modern Art in Britain owes much more to a handful of artists than has been hitherto recognized, The Economist, 14 November, p. 108
Donald Kuspit, Viewpoint, (catalogue accompanying exhibition, with introduction by Richard Cork), Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, December, pp. 76–79
David Reason, Iain Biggs, Land: Sea: Air, (catalogue accompanying exhibition) text and illus.
Brenda Richardson, Nora Halpern, Selections from the F.R. Weisman Collection, catalogue
P.B., Pferde im Siegerkranz (Basel: Christopher Le Brun)
1988 Keith Patrick, Romantic Roots, British Painting in the1980’s, Modern Painters, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 47–50
Judith Higgins, Painted Dreams – Experimenting within a Tradition of Landscape, Figurative and Narrative Art Artnews, February, pp. 120–122
Roberta Smith, New York Times, 29 April
John Welchman, A Softer Euphoria, Art International, Summer, pp. 54–58
Donald Kuspit, Artforum, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, September, p. 136
Norbert Messler, Artscribe International, November
Eileen Myles, Christopher Le Brun, Art in America, December, p. 154
Tony Godfrey, Classicism in Painting Today, Art & Design, Vol. 4, No. 5/6, pp. 48–52
Hugh Cumming, New Figurative Art, Art & Design, Vol. 4, No. 9/10, p. 58
Robert Rosenblum, Romanticism and Retrospection, Art & Design, Vol. 4, No. 11/12, pp. 6–19
Keith Patrick, Romanticism and the Modernist Myth, Art & Design, Vol. 4, No. 11/12, pp. 42–49
Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Ursula Frohne, daadgalerie, Berlin, Christopher Le Brun - Baumbilder - Malerei und Monotypien, (exhibition catalogue)
Phyliss Plous, Kenneth Baker, Collaborations in Monotype, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara
Catherine Lampert, The British Picture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, p. 13, illus. pp. 42–43
Lewis Biggs, Cries and Whispers, New Works for the British Council Collection, Text and illus. pp. 32–33
Edward Lucie-Smith, Carolyn Cohen, Judith Higgins, The New British Painting, Phaidon Press, Oxford
Aidan Dunne, Rosemary Mulcahy, ROSC ‘88, Dublin, catalogue
Balkon mit Fächer, catalogue to the exhibition ‘25 Years of the Berlin Artists’ Programme’
Carolyn Bissière, Jean-Paul Blancher, Les Années ‘80, Meymac, (exhibition catalogue)
Artists in National Parks, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, (exhibition catalogue)
Malerei, Painting, Peinture, No. 5, published by Stefan Szczesny, Munich, illus. pp. 32–35
The Tate Gallery Illustrated Biannual Report, 1986–88, illus. and text p. 94
Keith Patrick, The Romantic Tradition in Contemporary British Painting El Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
1989 School of London, Works on paper, Odette Gilbert Gallery, illus. and text p. 46
Stephen Bann, The True Vine, Cambridge University Press pp.194-198, 247
Brian Redhead, The Inspiration of Landscape, Phaidon Press, Oxford, pp. 65–68
Alistair Hicks, The School of London – the Resurgence of Contemporary Painting, Phaidon Press, Oxford
Marco Livingstone, British Figurative Painters of the 80’s, Art Random
Christopher Le Brun Paintings, 1987-89, exhibition catalogue published by Nigel Greenwood
David Lee, Darkest fears on canvas, The Times, 14 November
David Lillington, Christopher Le Brun, Time Out, 13–20 December
1989–90 Margaret Drabble, The Forces of Nature, Manchester City Art Gallery; Harris Museum, Preston
1990 Edward Lucie-Smith, Art in the Eighties, Phaidon Press, Oxford and New York, p. 48
Bryan Robertson, Christopher Le Brun, Burlington Magazine, March, No. 1044, pp. 227–228
Simon Morley, Christopher Le Brun, Tema Celeste 73, April-June
1990–91 Henry Meyric Hughes, Hunichi Shioda, Andrew Graham-Dixon, Akio Obigane, British Art Now: A Subjective View, British Council Travelling Exhibition in Japan
1991 Stephen Bann, Christopher Le Brun: Fifty Etchings, Paragon Press, London
Daniel Wheeler Art Since Mid Century, Thames and Hudson
Simon Wilson, Tate Gallery - An illustrated companion
Erik Fischer et al., Melankoli: Nordisk Romantisk Malerei (exhibition catalogue) Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Tony Godfrey, British Painting for the 90’s, Art in America, April, pp. 145-153
1991 Colin Wiggins, Christopher Le Brun: Fifty Etchings, Print Quarterly, June, pp. 145–153
Christopher Le Brun, Georgio Morandi Etchings, Tate Gallery Catalogue, pp. 33–36
Andrew Wilson, ‘God’s Acre’: Contemporary British Landscape Painting, Kunst und Museum Journal 2, No. 6
1992 Stephen Nowlin, Introduction and Interview with Christopher Le Brun; Kay Larson, An Apologia for Abstract Painting, exhibition catalogue, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, 9 February–5 April
Christopher Knight, High Romance Meets High Tech in Pasadena, Los Angeles Times, 18 February
Mario Cutajar, Fade Into Darkness &ndash Christopher Le Brun at the Art Center College of Design and L.A. Louver, Artweek, 5 March, Vol. 23, No. 9
1993 Robert Rosenblum, A Postscript: Some Recent Neo-Romantic Mutations, Art Journal, Vol. 52, No.2, Romanticism (Summer, 1993), pp. 74-84Jean Hohbarr, La Nostalgie de l’Infini - De Chirico: le Grand Retour, Le Choc du Mois, March, No. 62 Tête à Tête, April
Jean-Louis Pinte, De Chirico Le Premier Maître, Figaroscope, 7 April
Toujours de Chirico, Connaissance des Arts, April
Donna Landry and Gerald Maclean, Feminist Theory, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford
A Year of Art for London Lighthouse: British Painting, London Lighthouse
Don Williams and Colin Simpson, Art Now - Issues in Contemporary Art post 1970, McGraw-Hill Book Co. Melbourne, Australia
500 Contemporary Artists, MM Editions, Suresnes, France
1994 Colin Wiggins, The ‘Rider’Series Four New Etchings by Christopher Le Brun, Print Quarterly, Vo. XI, 1
Jeff Wright, Preserving the Future – Three British Painters Are Back in New York, Cover Magazine, New York, September
Bryan Robertson, Christopher Le Brun Paintings 1991–94, catalogue introduction, Marlborough Fine Art, London
1994–5 Andrew Gibbon Williams, Mary Rose Beaumont, Susie Allan and Stefan van Raay: An American Passion: The Susan Kasen Summer and Robert D Summer Collection of Contemporary British Painting, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow: Royal College of Art, London
1995 Timo Valjakka, Hans-Jakob Brun, Christopher Le Brun, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalogue, Oslo
Robert Anderson, Wagner and the English Literary Scene, Siegfried at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, March-April
Clare Henry, Christopher Le Brun, Galleries Magazine, August
Prints seen as a series, Art Review, November
Craig Hartley, Four Riders – states and progress-proofs, exhibition catalogue Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Patrick Elliot, Jeremy Lewison, Duncan Macmillan, Contemporary British Art in Print, p16-18; 134–149
1996 Robert Rosenblum, Towards a new millenium. Catalogue essay, the Berardo Collection, Sintra Museum of Modern Art.
Sarah Hyde, Christopher Le Brun Interview, in booklet accompanying The Art of Etching exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London
1997 Judith Bumpus, In pursuit of our dreams, Royal Academy Magazine, No. 57, Winter 1997
Christopher Le Brun, Museum Charges, Letter to the Independent, 2 December 1997
1998 Jill Lloyd, Christopher Le Brun Modern Painters, Summer 1998
1999 Venetia Scott, Monet in the 20th Century Education Edition, Royal Academy
Venetia Scott, Modern Monet; An Introductory Guide for Students, Royal Academy
1999 Linda Goddard, A meeting of minds, The Art Newspaper,June
Louise Jury, Learn with Monet, Art Review, June
Colin McDowell, Making Art from the Past, Red Hot Magazine, July
Robin Stringer, Special bus that drives to the art of London, Evening Standard: News Extra, 6 July
2000 Robert Storr, Modern Art despite Modernism MOMA New York
John Gage, Christopher Le Brun: Forms of Occlusion Exhibition catalogue Galleri Christian Dam Oslo
Lynn Gamwell, Dreams 1900–2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind Cornell University Press
Richard Morphet, Encounters: New Art From Old, National Gallery, London
2001 Alistair Hicks, Art Works: British and German Contemporary Art
1960–2000, The Deutsche Bank Collection, London
2002 John Aiken, Paradox and Modernity Slade Magazine.
2003 Christopher Le Brun, Venice Pictures Text for Venice Pictures. Catalogue publ. by Marlborough Graphics.
2004 Christopher Le Brun, Representation Royal Academy Forum paper publ. by Architectural Review Nov. 2004 and reprint.
Particular View Exhibition catalogue, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence and Siena, text by Lorand Hegyi.
2005 Anne Temkin, Contemporary Voices, Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Catalogue. Illus.p184/5
Gardens of Earthly Delight, Exhibition catalogue. publ.by Graphic Studio Dublin. Illustr. P.42/3.
Richard Wagner; Visions D’Artistes D’Auguste Renoir a Anselm Kiefer. Exhibition catalogue publ. musees d’Art et d’Histoire de Geneve, Somogy Editions d’Art. Claude Ritschard ‘Peindre Wagner Aujourdhui?’ Le Brun pp56-62 incl Illustr.
2006 Paul Coldwell, Morandi’s Legacy- Influences on British Art Estorick Collection Philip Wilson publishers
Deanna Petherbridge, Drawing Inspiration Exhibition catalogue, Abott Hall Art Gallery. Lakeland Arts Trust publishers.
Caroline Wiseman, Mary Anne Beaumont, Modern Art Now - From conception to consumption. Strawberry Art Press.
Christopher Le Brun, Cecilia Powell. Constructive, Investigative and Truthful. Interview for the Turner Society News. No.103 August 2006.
Tamsin Pickeral. The Horse. 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art. Merrell publishers. Illustration and text pp.254,266.
Christopher Le Brun. Royal Mint Collector Coins - the story behind the 2007 collection. Jeremy Mills Publishing Limited for the Royal Mint. Text by the artist and illustrations pp60/61.
2007 Peter L. Lauritzen, Tim Llewellyn. Venice:City of Dreams. Exhibition Catalogue. Illustrations and text pp.40-41.
Michael Glover. Venice: City of Dreams? Exhibition review. times2 pp15,16 illustr.The Times Jan. 16th 2007.
Charles Booth-Clibborn, Etienne Lullin, Florian-Oliver Simm. Contemporary Art in Print The publications of Charles Booth-Clibborn and his imprint the Paragon Press 2001-2006. Published by the Paragon Press and Contemporary Editions Ltd. Text and illustrations pp 212-235, Commentary by the artist pp. 319-320
Richard Dorment. Hockney shows that biggest is best. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review Daily Telegraph June 9th 2007.
Michael Proger. On and off the wall this summer. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review Sunday Telegraph June 24th 2007. Seven p26.
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2007 Catalogue. Illustration p71
Charles Saumarez Smith. Twenty Top Talents for 2008. Telegraph Review 29.12.08
2008 Rachel Campbell Johnston. Its got to be striking and it must stand up for a nation The Times 29.1.08.
Dalya Alberge. Five shortlisted for Ebbsfleet commission the Times 29.1.08
Mark Lawson. Front Row. Interview and discussion. BBC Radio 4 29.1.08
The Today Programme. A new Landmark sculpture. Interview. BBC Radio 4 29.1.08
Stephen Snoddy, JJ Charlesworth. Christopher Le Brun Exhibition catalogue published by The New Art Gallery Walsall 8.2.08.
Sara Greenberg. True Brit RA Magazine no.98 Spring 2008 p91
Sara Lee, Mike Tooby. Hugh Stoneman Master Printer Exhibition catalogue published by Tate St. Ives. illustr. p 27
Chris Craig and others. On Time - The East wing Collection VIII Exhibition catalogue published by the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Illustration and text pp 60,61.
Tom Devonshire Jones. Christopher Le Brun at the New Art Gallery Walsall. Art and Christianity 54 Summer 2008
Tony Godfrey. McKeever, Le Brun, Setch, Hodgkin. The Burlington Magazine, June 2008. pp.424-5.
Lucy Winstanley. Against The Grain. Artists and Illustrators Magazine, Summer 2008. pp.33-35.
2009 Colm Toibin, Brian Lalor and others, Artist's Proof Exhibition catalogue published by the Graphic Studio Dublin. Illustrations and text pp 42,43
Christopher Le Brun. Introduction The Creek Men. A Journey. Sculptures by Laurence Edwards. Published by Clock House Arts Association. March 2009
Dr. Wilfried Dickhoff. On the Viewless wings of Poesy. Catalogue introduction for Christopher Le Brun – Landscapes Galerie Hohenthal und Bergen, Berlin.
Galerie-Rundgang in Charlottenburg Der Tagesspiegel 23.5.09
Susie Hodge. How to Survive Modern Art Tate Publishing 2009
Agenda. Cover image for the fiftieth anniversary issue of the poetry journal. Published by Agenda and Editions Charitable Trust. Winter 2009
2010 Tony Godfrey Painting Today Phaidon
Paul Coldwell Printmaking - A Contemporary Perspective Black Dog Publishing
Double Interview London - Seoul. Catalogue of an exhibition that takes the form of filmed interviews accompanied by an exhibition. Published by Artspace Hue
Catalogue for the international exhibition Art Medal in a Global World published in association with the art medal world congress FIDEM XXXI - Tampere -Finland
Christopher Le Brun Twenty Drawings Illustrated exhibition catalogue including an introduction by the artist. Abbott and Holder Ltd
Interviews-Artists Volume Two: Recordings 2010 CV Publications
Layers: John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize Show Exhibition catalogue Seongnam Arts Center Korea. Text and illustrations pp 62-67. Published by Seongnam Cultural Foundation
Inspired by Soane Exhibition catalogue published by Sir John Soane's Museum London
Contemporary Art in British Churches Edited By Laura Moffat and Eileen Daly. Statements by artists including Anthony Caro, Stephen Cox, Tracey Emin, Shirazeh Houshiary, Susanna Heron and Tom Phillips.Essays by Paul Bayley, Laura Gascoigne, Stephen Stavrou and Catherine Pickstock. Published by Art & Christianity Enquiry.
2011 Mark Lawson Front Row BBC Radio 4 interview Watercolour 14.2.11
Alison Smith and others Watercolour Exhibition catalogue. Tate PublicationsTimothy Wilcox Brilliance Watered Down Tate Watercolour review and illustr. Apollo May 2011
RA Summer Exhibition. Mark Lawson Front Row BBC Radio 4 interview with Christopher Le Brun and Michael Craig Martin 2.6.11
Poems Paintings. Watercolours and Gouaches by Christopher Le Brun. Poems by JMW Turner, Tennyson, Ezra Pound, Edward Thomas, David Gascoyne and Wallace Stevens. Moon Rainbow Editions Berlin St. Moritz. Edited By Maryam Sachs and Dr. Wilfried Dickhoff.
Public collections
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Arts Council of Great Britain
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Berardo Museum, Lisbon
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
The British Council, London
British Museum, London
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Contemporary Art Society, London
Courtauld Gallery, London
Department of the Environment, London
Falmouth Art Gallery
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Hamilton Art Gallery, Ontario
Harris Museum, Preston
Harvard University Art Museums
High Museum, Atlanta
Ile de France Regional Fund
Isle of Man Arts Council
John Creasey Museum, Salisbury
Liverpool Cathedral
Malmo Doershus, Malmo
Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr
McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of London
National Portrait Gallery, London
New Art Gallery, Walsall Power Gallery, University of Sydney
Rooseum, Malmo
Royal Academy, London
Royal Mint, Cardiff
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Southampton Museum and Art Gallery
Southwark Art Collection
Spencer Collection, New York City Public Library
Stavanger Art Gallery, Stavanger
Stirlingshire Educational Trust
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Tate Gallery, London
University of Liverpool
University of Tasmania, Hobart
University of Texas, Austin
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
