1980 Retrospective: Blackfriar's Gallery

This is the exhibition list from Robert Lenkiewicz's small retrospective in 1980 held at Blackfriar's Gallery. It is interesting for the claims the artist makes for the scale of the projects already completed; claims which seem to be at variance with the actual exhibition lists posted elsewhere on this site:

RETROSPECTIVE
PAINTINGS: R. 0. LENIKIEWICZ SELECTED from TWELVE PROJECTS on the RELATIONSHIP SERIES also: Work between the ages of 14-23.

BLACKFRIARS GALLERY
58, SOUTHSIDE STREET, BARBICAN. PLYMOUTH
8TH - 27TH September

This collection is a small selection of works from a large number of paintings on a series of projects. The series consist of 16 sections on relationships. All the themes are inter-related. They involve an aesthetic theory of a subjective nature which has pre-occupied the painter for some years. He has written a large number of notes on this aspect. Regrettably they cannot be exhibited here.

The exhibitions presented in this city so far have been:

(These last two themes are on display now at the painters studio around the corner.)

Selection from early work
1. Views from Mill Lane bridge: 14-15 years.
2. Studies of chickens. 14 years.
3. Still-life. 14-15 years.
4. Self-portraits. 14-15 years.
5. Self-portrait. 15-16 years.
6. Self-portrait with Punch magazine: 17 years old.
7. Plants in candle-light. 14-15 years.
8. Ivorine in white on white bed. 16 years.
9. Letterbox at night. 14-15 years.
10. Old Mrs Webber. 14-15 years.

Selection from 150 paintings on the theme: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN.
11. Death presenting Peace to the Maiden. £200
12. The Putrefaction of Diogenes. NFS
13. One of the Three Magi presenting his entrails to the child. £300.

Selection from 120 paintings on the theme: ORGASM
14. Woman forcing Pleasure. NFS
15. Man and Woman coupling. £110

A small selection of Orgasm studies are in the rack close by. PLEASE be careful with the studies.

Selection from 110 paintings on the theme: SELF-PORTRAIT
16. Self-portrait with Mephistopheles. NFS
17. Self-portrait with Eliza-in white. NFS
18. Self-portrait with Ruti. £500
19. Self-portrait with Eliza. NFS

Selection from 200 paintings on the theme: JEALOUSY
20. Woman walking away. NFS
21. Woman walking away. NFS
22. Jealous lover with flower. £150
23. Man holding woman’s dress watching her walk away. £350

A small selection of Jealousy studies are in the rack near by. PLEASE handle them with care.
24. Self-portrait with Amelie NFS
25. Study for Orgasm theme. NFS
26. Study for Love & Romance them.. NFS
27. Man watching himself with Mary. £160
28. Rembrandt, me and Hendrijke Stoppels. £ 95

Selection from 500 paintings on the theme: MENTAL HANDICAP
29. Small-growth person and girl with Cerebral Palsy. NFS
30. George Fallick £200
31. Mrs Dempster and child. NFS

A small selection of Mental Handicap studies are in the rack nearby. PLEASE these pieces with care.
32. Portrait of the painter’s dead mother. NFS

Selection from 100 paintings on the theme: OLD AGE
33. Old Ken. NFS
34. “Diogenes;” the painter’s assistant. NFS
35. Old gentleman of nearby Community Centre.
36. Old ladies of nearby Community Centre.

These two studies are puns on the (Regenten & Regentessen) ‘Alma House’ paintings by Frans Hals painted in 1664, when he was 82 years old - now in the Municipal Museum at Haarlem.

A small selection of Old Age studies are in a rack nearby. PLEASE handle with care.
37. Self-portrait dead. This piece is related to a number of ‘Pieta’ formulae. A large series of notes in the painter’s possession detail the associations.
38. Self-portrait with two Teddy-boys. £600
39. Schlemile. £500
40. Fragment from exact scale pun on THE NIGHT WATCH by Rembrandt. Instead of Captain Banning Coque and Willem van Reutenburgh - The figures from left to right are: Hans de Rijke; Chief Physiotherapist, Trengwealh Centre, Viv Sloaman; Ron Moore, headmaster at Millford School; Dr David Owen shortly before he became Foreign Secretary; Kim Ashly, director of a skills centre, and “Cockney Jim”, local nuisance. The painting was the centre-piece for the Mental Handicap exhibition, and has now been cut to a third of its original size.
41. Woman in blue with wool.
(This piece was commenced at the age of 18 yearn, and worked on periodically for six years. It is the only piece in the exhibition that the painter is tolerably diposed towards.)
42. Self-portrait. NFS
43. Lelya with Pesalino’s Saints. NFS [One of 100 paintings on the theme Love & Romance.]
44. Self-portrait. NFS
45. Self-portrait with lover. NFS
46. Man and Woman - pencil Study. £ 60
47. Self-portrait with Mary.
48. Old Lady of 106 years. £140
49. Old man-young woman with reflections NFS
50. Frank. £100
51. ‘Whistling Taffy’. £100
52. Albert Ernest Edward Fisher: known as ‘The Bishop’. NFS
53. Ruti and Laila. NFS
54. Please don’t leave. (From Jealousy theme: see upstairs) NFS
55. Self-portrait-three stages/(after Titian) £250
56. Self-portrait. NFS
57. Self-portrait. NFS
58. Monca with Jan. NFS
59. Eliza in flowered dress. £500
60. Eliza in pink dress. NFS

Note: The next exhibition in the series will be: THE PAINTER WITH MARY: A study of Obsessional Behavior.

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