In partnership with Frestonian Gallery, London
February 24 - March 29, 2023
45 White Street, New York, NY
Adrian Berg
Moments in Arcadia: The Late Watercolors, 1988-2010
SFA Advisory
Adrian Berg
ADRIAN BERG
Beachy Head, 6th September
1992
Watercolor on paper
9 3/4 by 14 1/8 inches (26 x 36 cm), paper
13 3/4 by 18 inches (34.9 x 45.7 cm), framed
Signed, titled, and dated en verso
SOLD
ADRIAN BERG
First Lake, Sheffield Park Garden, Sussex Weald, 19th October & 30th March
2001
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
14 by 20 inches (36 x 51 cm), paper
18 by 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm), framed
Titled en verso
ADRIAN BERG
First Lake Sheffield Park Garden, Sussex Weald, 2nd & 3rd August
2010
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
18 by 24 inches (46 x 61 cm), paper
22 by 28 inches (55.9 x 71.1 cm), framed
Titled en verso
ADRIAN BERG
Glyndebourne, 24th August
1989
Watercolor on paper
8 by 16 1/8 inches (20.3 x 41 cm), paper
11 7/8 by 20 1/8 inches (30.2 x 51.1 cm), framed
Titled and dated en verso
SOLD
ADRIAN BERG
Highdown, 10th June (2)
1996
Watercolor crayon on paper
7 1/8 by 9 7/8 inches (18 x 25 cm), paper
11 1/2 by 13 3/4 inches (29.2 x 34.9 cm), framed
Titled and dated en recto
ADRIAN BERG
Highdown, 11th June (1)
1996
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
7 1/2 by 9 3/4 inches (18.8 x 25 cm), paper
11 1/2 by 13 5/8 inches (29.2 x 34.6 cm), framed
Titled and dated en recto
ADRIAN BERG
Highdown, 1st April
1997
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
8 1/4 by 20 1/2 inches (20.8 x 52 cm), paper
12 1/8 by 24 7/8 inches (30.8 x 63.2 cm), framed
2 sheets
Titled and dated en verso
ADRIAN BERG
Highdown, 22nd April
1997
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
8 1/4 by 10 1/4 inches (20.8 x 26 cm), paper
12 1/8 by 14 inches (30.8 x 35.6 cm), framed
Titled and dated en verso
ADRIAN BERG
Highdown, 1st May
1997
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
8 1/4 by 10 1/4 inches (20.8 x 26 cm), paper
12 1/8 by 14 inches (30.8 x 35.6 cm), framed
Titled and dated en recto
ADRIAN BERG
Highdown, 2nd May
1997
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
8 1/4 by 10 1/4 inches (20.8 x 26 cm), paper
12 1/8 by 14 1/4 inches (30.8 x 36.2 cm), framed
Titled and dated en verso
ADRIAN BERG
Highdown, 16th May
1997
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
9 by 12 inches (23 x 31 cm), paper
13 by 16 inches (33 x 40.6 cm), framed
Titled and dated en verso
ADRIAN BERG
Kew Gardens 16th February
1998
Watercolor on paper
8 1/4 by 20 3/4 inches (21 x 53 cm), paper
12 1/8 by 24 3/4 inches (30.8 x 62.9 cm), framed
2 sheets
Signed, titled and dated en recto
ADRIAN BERG
Second Lake, Sheffield Park Garden, 5th June
1988
Watercolor on paper
15 by 18 inches (38 x 45.8 cm), paper
19 by 22 inches (48.3 x 55.9 cm), framed
Titled and dated en verso
ADRIAN BERG
Stourhead, 11th August
1990
Watercolor on paper
12 by 16 inches (30.5 x 40.5 cm), paper
16 1/8 by 20 inches (41 x 50.8 cm), framed
Signed, titled, and dated en verso
SOLD
ADRIAN BERG
Stourhead, 28th June
2001
Watercolor on paper
9 by 24 inches (23 x 60.5 cm), paper
13 by 27 7/8 inches (33 x 70.8 cm), framed
Titled en verso
ADRIAN BERG
The Dome, Brighton, 13th May
1997
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
7 by 10 inches (17.7 x 25.3 cm), paper
11 by 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm), framed
Titled and dated en verso
ADRIAN BERG
The Pavilion, Brighton, 14th May
1997
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
7 by 10 inches (17.7 x 25.3 cm), paper
11 by 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm), framed
Titled and dated en verso
ADRIAN BERG
The Old Entrance, Wakehurst Place 25th April
2009
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
18 by 24 inches (46 x 61 cm), paper
22 by 28 inches (55.9 x 71.1 cm), framed
Titled and dated en recto
ADRIAN BERG
The New Entrance, Wakehurst Place 24th June
2009
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
18 by 24 inches (46 x 61 cm), paper
22 by 28 inches (55.9 x 71.1 cm), framed
Titled and dated en recto
ADRIAN BERG
The New Entrance, Wakehurst Place, 1st July
2009
Watercolor pencil and crayon on paper
18 by 24 inches (46 x 61 cm), paper
22 by 28 inches (55.9 x 71.1 cm), framed
Titled and dated en recto
Adrian Berg was born in London in 1929. He was educated at Charterhouse and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. He studied art in London, first at Central St Martin's, then Chelsea College of Arts and finally at the Royal College of Art. Later he would go on to teach at the Royal College, becoming senior tutor in 1987. Berg’s paintings have been exhibited in all major UK institutions including, amongst many others the Tate, Hayward Gallery, Royal Academy, Victoria & Albert Museum, Fitzwilliam and Pallant House Gallery. In 1986, The Serpentine Gallery and the Arts Council held a major retrospective of Berg’s work which subsequently toured the country. He has also exhibited extensively internationally.
In 1992, he was elected as a Royal Academician, and in 1994 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art. It was in his own studies at the RCA in the early 1960s that Berg first found attention as an artist of rare talent and vision – and where he first became a prominent influence on his peers, including R.B Kitaj and David Hockney. His work is held in many private and public collections, including the Arts Council Collection, the Tate, the Government Art Collection, the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum. His work will be the subject of a solo show at Frestonian Gallery in 2023, and a major museum retrospective in the UK in 2024/5. Berg passed away in 2011 at the age of 82.
One of the most innovative and ultimately influential landscape painters of his generation, he has been underserved and underrecognized by those outside of circles who were variously inspired by or taught by him. His exhibition at SFA Advisory, is his first commercial show in the US, centers on perhaps the most liberal and immediate output of his career: the sketches and watercolors he produced en plein air while immersed in the parklands, gardens, and coastlines of England.
