A selection of exhibitions of Sven Berlin's work during his lifetime and after his death in 1999.
From top left:
The invitation to the Bladon Gallery (Hurstbourne Tarrant) exhibition in 1956 with Berlin's additional note that Lord Moyne attended.
Opening night at the 2011 Centenary Celebration at St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery.
Art critic, artist and writer Peter Davies opens Berlin's Dark Monarch envelope on his 100th birthday as the artist requested, revealing the identity of the characters in his infamous book.
Alison Bevan, former director of Penlee House Gallery & Museum in Penzance, celebrated Berlin's 101st birthday with his friend John Paddy Browne and daughter Greta Berlin. Photo: Phil Monkton.
On show at St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery in 2003, Berlin's alabaster head Timeless Man and on the wall, his flamboyant oil Gypsies Dancing.
Berlin, pictured at his very first exhibition in Camborne, Cornwall in 1939.
1939    May, Camborne Community Centre, Camborne, Cornwall
1946Â Â Â January, St. Ives Society of Artists (STISA)
      September, Crypt Group, St. Ives;  Lefevre Gallery, LondonÂ
1947   May, Downing Bookshop, St. Ives  and STISAÂ
      August, Crypt Group, St. Ives
1947 Â Â Â August/September, The Leicester Galleries, London
        (Artists of Fame and of Promise)
      October/November, Mid-Day Galleries Manchester
      November, STISA travelling show, National Museum of Wales
1948    January St. George’s Gallery, London
      May, Downing Bookshop, St. Ives. One man show
      July, Crypt Group show Â
1949 Â Â Downing Bookshop, Â St. Ives
1951    January/February Art and Craftsmen from around St. Ives, Heal’s Mansard Gallery
1954 Â Â Â Arthur Tooth & Sons Mayfair/London annual show - until 1959
1956 Â Â Bladon Gallery, Hurstbourne Tarrant
      Fox & Hounds, Lyndhurst, New Forest
1958   Mailman’s, Lyndhurst
1961 Â Â Aldine House (J.M. Dent), London
1965 Â Â June, Creative Art Patrons, London
1966 Â Â May/June, Bladon Gallery, Hurstbourne Tarrant
1967 Â Â Ogilvy & Mather, London
1968 Â Â Pace Gallery, Houston, Texas
1969 Â Â October, Hamwic Gallery, The Art Shop, Southampton
1969 Â Â Beaulieu Gallery (mixed show)
1970 Â Â Poole College Festival of Arts
1977 Â Â Â New Art Centre, London, Cornwall 1945-55 (mixed show)
1980Â Â Â June/July, Higher Gaunts House, Wimborne
1981Â Â Â November, Wimborne BookshopÂ
1982Â Â Â September, Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives
1983Â Â Â October, New Art Centre
1984Â Â Â May, Liverpool International Garden Festival
1985 Â Â February/MarchTate Gallery, London, St. Ives 1939-64 and
      Michael Parkin Fine Art - Cornwall 1925-1975
1986Â Â Â Yorkshire Sculpture Garden, Wakefield
1987/8Â Roche Court, Salisbury
1989Â Â Â November, Belgrave Gallery, London
1991Â Â Â Deans Court, Wimborne
      Belgrave Gallery, London
1992Â Â Â Belgrave Gallery, London
1992Â Â Â Royal West of England Academy
1993 Â Â Deans Court, Wimborne
1994Â Â Â April to October Tate St. Ives, Equivalents for the Megaliths
      The Book Gallery and Sims Gallery, St. IvesÂ
1995Â Â Â Insight, Russell-Cotes, Bournemouth
1997Â Â Â The Rime of the Ancient Mariner bicentenary, Grasmere, Cumbria
      Four Seasons Gallery, Wimborne (further annual shows followed)
Posthumous Exhibitions
2002Â Â Â Hand & Eye, Study Gallery, Poole
2003Â Â Â Paintings from Shave Green, St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington
2009Â Â Â The Dark Monarch, Tate St. Ives
2011Â Â Â Centenary Celebration, St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington
2012Â Â Â Sven Berlin: Out of the Shadows, Penlee House Museum & Gallery, Penzance
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