The Mayfair Gallery Publication Award was created in 2020 with the intention to promote outstanding research and publications produced by art galleries in Mayfair. It is an annual celebration of the important contribution made by Mayfair galleries to art research and the art world’s book trade.
Since its inception, more than twenty galleries have participated in the programme. Judges including international art critics and curators are invited annually to evaluate submitted publications, and the final results are announced towards the conclusion of each year.
2020
Highlight of Nominations
Hauser & Wirth — Before of After, at the Same Time: Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948-1968
Robilant + Voena — Ugo Mulas: Creative Intersections
Hauser & Wirth — Geta Brătescu: Game of Forms
Olivier Malingue — Suspension
Galerie Max Hetzlwer — Louise Bonnet
John Martin Gallery — Francis Hamel: Painting the Yellow Mountain
BASTIAN — Hans Hofmann: Fury Painting After the War
Waddington Custot — Fabienne Verdier: Vortex
Galerie Max Hetzler — Giulia Andreani
Luxembourg Co. — Reconstructing Cezanne: Sequence and Process in Paul Cezanne’s Works on Paper
Finalists
Hauser & Wirth — Before of After, at the Same Time: Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948-1968
Waddington Custot — Fabienne Verdier: Vortex
Galerie Max Hetzler — Giulia Andreani
Robilant + Voena — Ugo Mulas: Creative Intersections
Judges
Sam Phillips (editor of RA Magazine)
Hettie Judah
Thomas Marks (former editor of Apollo)
2020 Winner
Robilant + Voena — Ugo Mulas: Creative Intersections
This comprehensive volume brings together Ugo Mulas’ photographs of Lucio Fontana, Piero Conagra, Fausto Melotti, and Michelangelo Pisoletto. Constituting an archive of post-war Italian art, Mulas’ photographs provide illuminating insight into the practices of these important artists. Accompanying the images, there are selected works, brought together by the Mulas’ own commentary on the practices of his peers, and his place at the intersections of their work.
Creative Intersections accompanied an exhibition at Robilant+Voena London in 2019, which displayed many of Mulas’ images, alongside works by the selected artists. The show featured great modern artworks, whilst demonstrating how Mulas was able to bridge the gap between documentary and artistic endeavour, producing powerful compositions that draw upon the inventive manner of his subjects.
2021
Highlight of Nominations
Luxembourg & Co. — Glosetta Fioroni: After Ego
Annely Juda Fine Art — Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting
John Martin Gallery — The Gardens at Rousham, Paintings by Francis Hamel
Cardi Gallery — Paolo Canevari: Self-Portrait | Autoritratto
Richard Saltoun Gallery — Barbara Levittoux-Swiderska
Marlborough — Gillian Ayers
Finalists
Luxembourg & Co. — John Stezaker: At the Edge of Pictures
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery — Jadé Fadojutimi: Jesture
Mazzoleni — Red Regatta: Melissa McGill
Waddington Custot — Paul Feeley: Space Stands Still
Judges
Thomas Marks (former editor of Apollo)
Sam Philips (editor of RA Magazine)
Rebecca Morrill (Phaidon, Commissioning Editor - Art)
2021 Winner
Waddington Custot — Paul Feeley: Space Stands Still
