Clare
was elected to the Critics Circle Visual Arts and Architecture Section for her
writing in 2011 and was elected to be the sections’ secretary in 2013 a post she continues to fulfil.
PUBLICATIONS:- 'Picasso and the Foundry of Emile Robecchi during the Second World War' The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 162, No. 1406, May 2020, pp. 420 - 431.
- 'The Making of Picasso's "Woman in a Long Dress"', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 160, No. 1388, November 2018, pp. 921 - 927.
- 'Travailler en temps de Guerre: Les Fonts de Picasso et les campages de récupération', in Pablo Picasso: L'Homme au Mouton, at Le Picine-Musée d'art et de industrie André Diligent, Roubaix et Editions Snoek, Gand, 2018, pp. 62 - 79.
- 'Preserving Illusions' on conservation and the Magic Circle Museum, in Icon News, August 2018, pp. 17 - 20.
- 'Examining Examination', in Icon News, March 2017, pp. 20 - 21.
- 'Au déla de la talent: Picasso l'orfèvre', in Un génie sans piédestal; Picasso et les arts et traditions populaire, Mucern, Marseilles, Gallimard, Paris, 2016.
- ‘Fondre en bronze pendant la guerre’, in Picasso Sculptures, Musée Picasso Paris & Somogy Éditions d’Art, Paris, 2016, pp. 200 – 204.
- ‘Recreating Mr Turner’s life and times’, in ICON News, January 2015, pp. 22 – 25.
- ‘The Devil in the Detail’, Apollo, January 2014, vol. CLXXIX, No. 616, pp. 50 – 54.
- ‘What Do Others See?’, News in Conservation, IIC, London, December 2013, pp. 8 – 13.
- ‘Rumours of War ; Rudier and art bronze casting
during the Second World War’,
Sculpture
Journal,
2013, volume 22.2,pp. 128 – 133.
- ‘Cookery Corner – or Peregrinations to
Communications’, in ICON News, January 2013, p. 11.
- ‘Written Documentation for Paintings Conservation’
in
Conservation of Easel Paintings,
ed. Joyce Hill Stoner & Rebecca
Rushfield, Routledge, London & New York, 2012, pp. 271 – 276.
- ‘The
Fragility of Art’, cassone-art.com, August 2011.
- ‘The
Golden Muse’,
Apollo, May 2011, vol.
CLXXIII, No. 587, pp. 52 – 59.
- Sale
notes to lots 67 &68 for Bonham’s sale of ‘Picasso Editions’ Thursday, 23
September 2010.
- ‘Calder’s
Legacy’,
Apollo, November 2009, vol.
CLXX, No. 570, pp. 54 – 58.
- ‘Picasso
the Sculptor; a granddaughter’s tribute’,
Apollo,
October 2008, vol. CLXVIII, No. 558, pp. 24 – 31.
- ‘The Making of Picasso’s
Art; “Not…by thought but with your hands”’ in the publication for the exhibition
Picasso:
Fired with Passion,
6 July – 28 October 2007, Exhibition at the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 1 - 35.
- ‘Art on a
Plate, Picasso’s Silver Compotiers’,
Apollo,
May 2007, vol. CLXVI, No. 543, pp. 72 - 76.
- Co-curated
the exhibition
Picasso en or et en argent,
« Le parcours de la sagesse »at
the Musée de
l’orfèvrerie de la Communauté française at the Château de Seneffe, Seneffe,
Belgium from 8 October
2005 to 5 February 2006, contributed an essay to the catalogue – ‘Le travail de
Picasso en or et en Argent’ and catalogue notes for the
exhibited pieces.
- Co-curated the exhibition Picasso Peintre d'objets, Objets de peintre held at Musée d’Art moderne, Céret,
France, from 12
June to 19 September 2005 and at La Piscine – musée d’art et d’industrie
André Diligent, Roubaix, France, from 9 October 2004 to 9
January 2005, and contributed
to essays to the catalogue :
‘Picasso et les bijoux’, &
‘L’argenterie dans la vie et dans l’œuvre de Picasso’, in
Picasso Peintre d’objets, Objets de peintre,
Gallimard, Paris, 2004.
- ‘François Hugo’s collaboration with
Pablo Picasso’ included in
Bijoux
d’artistes, Artist’sJewels, Hommage à François Hugo,
edited by Pierre Hugo, and Claire Siaud, Les Cyprès Editeur,
Les Cypres, Aix-en-Provence, 2002.
- ‘The cleaning of painted stone’
included in
Conservation of Building and
Decorative Stone,
Ed. John Ashurst and Francis G.
Dimes, Butterworth-Heinemann, London, 1990.
Reviews:
- ‘Adora
Maar – The Invisible Woman’ on the Exhibition at Tate Modern, Dora Maar, http://www.criticscircle.org.uk/visual-arts/
December 2019.
- ‘Ben
Nicholson; Writings and Ideas’, on the book Ben
Nicholson; Writings and Ideas, ed. Lee Child, Lund Humphries, London, Mar. 2019 for http://www.criticscircle.org.uk/visual-arts/
June 2019.
- ‘’Oh
No, it’s Not The Original’ or Giant Steps?’ on an exhibition at the Watts
Gallery of the work
of James Henry Pollen, in ICON News, April 2019, pp. 19 – 23.
- ‘Bonnard’s
Dog of Distinction’ on Pierre Bonnard,
The Colour of Memory, at Tate, http://www.criticscircle.org.uk/visual-arts/
January 2019.
- ‘Singing
for this Year’s Unsung Hero: Michael Rowe’, on the winner of the Critics’
Circle Visual Arts & Architecture Unsung Hero Award for 2017, http://www.criticscircle.org.uk/visual-arts/November 2018.
- ‘Pooh,
the bear that delights old and young’, on Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a
Classic at the Victoria
and Albert Museum, www.criticscircle.org.uk/visual-arts/,
February 2018.
- ‘With
Magical Touch’ on A Farewell to Art: Chagall, Shakespeare and Prospero at the Ben Uri Gallery, www.criticscircle.org.uk/visual-arts/, February 2018.
- ‘How
Calder Broke the Ground’, on the first volume of Jed Perl’s new biography of Alexander Calder, Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early
Years: 1898-1940, http://www.criticscircle.org.uk/visual-arts/, January 2018.
- ‘Picasso Portraits:
Humour is Key’ http://www.thelondonmagazine.org, 25 November 2016.
- ‘Picasso
Sculptures at Musée National Picasso-Paris’ http://www.thelondonmagazine.org, 4
October 2016.
- Paul
Taylor, Condition: The Aging of Art,
Paul Holberton, London, 2015, in Icon News, March
2016, p. 26.
- ‘Canaletto in Cumbria’ on Canaletto: Celebrating Britain at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria for criticscircle.org.uk/visual-arts, January 2016.
- 'The Conservation Oscars', on the 2015 Conservation Awards, for criticscircle.org.uk/visual-arts, December 2015.
- Goya the unflattering flatterer', on Goya: the Portraits, at the National Gallery, London for criticscircle.org.uk/visual-arts, October 2015.
- 'Richard Dadd's master strokes' on The Art of Bedlam, Richard Dadd Exhibition at the Watts Gallery, for Cassone-Art.com, July 2015.
- ‘A Review of Last Year’s Films on Art’, News in Conservation, Issue 49, August 2015, pp. 17 – 18.
- ‘Did
Picasso make Spain Modern?’ on
Picasso
and Spanish Modernity; works from the Collection of the Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,
Eugenio Carmona (Ed.), Palazzo
Strozzi,
Florence, 2014, for Cassone-art.com, May 2015.
- ‘A
carnival of animals in Picasso’s art’ on Boris Friedewald,
Picasso's Animals, Prestel,
Munich, London, New York, 2014, for Cassone-art.com, Jan 2015
- Buying art - help
for the uninitiated!’on the launch of Art Select UK, for Cassone-art.com, Jan 2015.
- ‘Late Turner; Painting Set Free and Mr Turner – a
review’ in News in Conservation, Dec 2014.
- ‘Dazzling
displays and Georgian extravaganzas’ on
Melanie Doderer-Winkler, MagnificentEntertainments,
Temporary Architecture for Georgian Festivals,
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
in British Art, Yale University Press 2013,
for Cassone-art.com, July 2014.
- ‘Fame,
money and running an art business in Renaissance Florence’ on Michelle
O’Malley,
Painting under
Pressure; fame, reputation & demand in Renaissance Florence,
YUP, New Haven
& London, 2013, for Cassone-art.com, April 2014.
- ‘Derring-do,
skulduggery and long-lost Trojan treasures’ on
John Galway, The Face of Agamemnon, AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Indiana,
2013 for Cassone-art.com, February 2014.
- 'Picasso's progress from The Blue Room to Guernica' on Clark, T. J., Picasso and Truth, from Cubism to Guernica, The A.The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine
Arts, Bollingen Series XXXV. 58,Princeton University Press 2013, for Cassone-art.com, December 2013.
- ‘The
fantasy world of Shunga’ on the exhibition
Shunga,
Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art
at The British Museum, London, for Cassone-art.com,
December 2013.
- ‘Picasso:
the great flatterer of 20th century painting’ on the exhibition Catalogue
Picasso Black and White, Carmen Giménez (ed), Guggenheim, New
York, 2012, for Cassone-art.com, November
2013.
- ‘Gallery
Elena Shchukina’s exhibition of Kyosuke Tchinai’s work’ for Cassone-art.com, November
2013.
- ‘Casali:
Photographer of hidden essences’ on the exhibition Giorgio Casali photographer/
domus 1951 – 1983,
architecture, design and art in Italy
at the Estorick Collection, London, for
Cassone-art.com, August 2013.
- ‘The
spoils of war’ on a discussion on the restitution of art looted during the
Second World War
at the London Jewish Cultural Centre, for Cassone-art.com, June 2013.
- ‘Alexander
Calder’s lyrical inventions’ on the exhibition Calder After the War at Pace Gallery London for Cassone-art.com, April
& May 2013.
- ‘Japanned
PapierMâché and Tinware c. 1740 – 1940’
, in
Studies in Conservation, Vol. 58, No. 2, April 2013, pp 149 – 152.
- ‘A
celebration of invisible work’ on the launch of a year to celebrate 100 years
of conservation at Historic Royal
Palaces, Cassone-art.com, April 2013.
- ‘Man
Ray: capturing the fizz of his time’ on the exhibition,
Man Ray Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, Cassone-art.com,
April 2013.
- ‘A
trail of tears leads to George Catlin’s Indian Gallery’ on the exhibition
George Catlin American Indian
Portraits,
at the
National Portrait Gallery, London, cassone-art.com, April 2013.
- ‘A
year in the life of…Picasso’ on the exhibition
Becoming Picasso Paris 1901, at the Courtauld Gallery, London,
cassone-art.com, February 2013.
- ‘Glimpsing
the history of the world through its furniture’ on the Victoria & Albert
Museum’spermanent gallery for furniture - the Dr Susan Weber Gallery, cassone-art.com, February 2013.
- 'Roll uo, roll up - the circus in French art' on Picasso and the Circus, Fin-de-Siècle Paris and the Suite de Saltimbanques, ed Phillip Earenfight, the Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 2011, cassone-art.com, December 2012.
- 'Bronze: crossing continents, through millenia' on Bronze, held at The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 15 Sept to 9 Dec 2012, cassone-art.com, October 2012.
- ‘Varnishing
Acts’ on Yvonne Jones,
Japanned
PapierMâché and Tinware c. 1740 – 1940,
Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge,
Suffolk, 2012, in
Apollo, October
2012, vol CLXXVI, No. 602, pp. 114 – 115.
- ‘The pursuit of authenticity’, on Thierry Lenain, Art Forgery: The History of a Modern
Obsession,
Reaktion, London, 2011, in Apollo, June 2012, vol CLXXV, No. 599, pp. 124 - 125.
- ‘Picasso and Britain – a
difficult relationship?’ on the Exhibition
Picasso
and Modern British Art
at Tate Britain from 15 February to 15
July 2012, Cassone-art.com, April 2012.
- ‘Eugène Atget's documentary Surrealism’ on Eugène Atget, Old Paris, Fundació Mapfre
& TF Editores, Madrid & Alcobendas, Spain, 2011, cassone-art.com,
February 2012.
- ‘Celebrity collectors: The Stein family’ on The Steins Collect, Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant Garde, Ed.
Janet Bishop, Cecile Debray and Rebecca Rabinow, cassone-art.com, January
2012.
- ‘Picasso
in bohemian Paris’ on Marilyn McCully et al,
Picasso in Paris 1900 –1907, for cassone-art.com,
August 2011.
- With
Dr. Joyce Townsend, ‘Picasso’s Materials and Techniques’,
Icon News; The Magazine of the Institute of
Conservation,
July
2010, issue 29, pp. 29 – 30.
- ‘Therese Lichtenstein et al, Twilight Visions; Surrealism and Paris, The Art Book, Vol 17, No. 2, May
2010, pp. 61 - 62
.
- ‘Elizabeth Cowling’s Picasso’s late sculpture:
Woman’ The Art Book,
Vol. 1, No.
1, Feb 2010, pp. 27 – 28.
- ‘In the
age of duchesses’ on John Richardson’s
A
Life of Picasso, Volume III, The Triumphant Years 1917 – 1932,
Apollo, Vol. CLXVII, No. 552, March 2008, pp. 186 – 187.
- ‘The man
who was married to Picasso’, On Elizabeth Cowling’s book
Visiting Picasso : The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose, Thames & Hudson, 2006
– That became the 2006 Apollo book of the year
Apollo, Vol. CLXIX, No. 533, July 2006,
pp. 62 – 63.
- ‘Potted
History’ on of the exhibition
Picasso :
ceramics & Tradition,
held at the Spanish Pavilion,
Expo 2005, Aichi, Japan, from 21 March to 25 September 2005 and at the Museo Picasso,
Málaga, from 24 October 2005 to 5 February 2006 -for
Apollo, January 2006, vol. CLXIII,
No. 527, pp. 80 – 81.
LECTURES :
- ‘Picasso’s casting in bronze during World War II’,
Critics Circle, 9 January 2018.
- ‘Examining
Examination’, ICON Conference, Birmingham 2016.
-
'Picasso's bronze casting during World War II' at the Picasso Colloque Paris, March 2016.
- “Overlooked;
uncovering a hidden history” on Clare’s research into a copy of a Portrait of Edward VI, Conservation of Easel Paintings
Course, Burt Hall, Northumbria University, October 2014.
- ‘What
Do Others See?’ on Clare’s research into visual perceptions in the arts, ICON
Conference, Glasgow 2013.
- ‘From
Birmingham to Byzantium and beyond; a journeys into Papier-mâché’ on Clare’s
research into painted papier mâché panels for ships interiors, given at the
2010 ICON Conference, Cardiff & to the ICON Scotland Group, June 2011.
- ‘Picasso’s cast metal work’ to the ICON
Metal’s Group, 2007.
- ‘Uses of digital imaging in
conservation reports’ to the ICON Paintings’ group, 2005.
- ‘Insurance for Conservators’ to the
ICON Paintings’ group, 2004.
- ‘Preventative Conservation’, at the
invitation of the British Council, at the Metropolitan Museum in Manila, in the
Philippines, 1980s.
- ‘Conservation Business Practice’, to
the metal conservation and restoration course, West Dean College, Chichester,
1980s.