Round the galleries: a selection of current exhibitions and works of art on the market

Apollo, April, 2004 by Samson Spanier

An impressively broad cross-section of artists is to be seen in 'Britain between the wars' until 22 April, at The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street. Five water-colours by Paul Nash, which includes a deserted Hyde Park at the outbreak of World War II, and three sculptures by Frank Dobson are the centrepiece. Etchings by Muirhead Bone and D.Y. Cameron, whose stock has risen since an exhibition of them at the Fleming Collection last year, furniture by Gordon Russell and an oil by George Clausen are joined by a little known painting by Edward Bawden, By the sea (1929-30).

The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy, Piccadilly is previewed on pages 63-64. The LAPADA Fine Art and Antiques Fair, meanwhile, takes place at Claridge's Hotel, Brook Street, from 14 to 18 April. Artefacts and art range in date from 2000 BC to Art Deco. A highlight is Regency furniture by John Gee from W.R. Harvey & Co.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution can be witnessed through both intimate and and reportage photographs at The Photographers' Gallery, 5 Great Newport Street, from 9 April to 30 May. 'Red-colour news soldier: A Chinese photographer's odyssey through the Cultural Revolution' contains the work of a newspaper photographer, Li Zhensheng, who captured the witchhunts among the insurgencies initiated by Mao Zedong. Meanwhile, intimate pictures of Mao himself and his family constitute 'Hou Bo & Xu Xiaobing: Mao's photographers'. Both sets of images were refused publication by the Chinese government at various times.

Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert are exhibiting drawings by Henry Moore, firstly in their London gallery at 38 Bury Street until 8 April, and then in New York at 17 East 76th Street from 22 April to 14 May. 'Henry Moore: Master drawings from the collection of The Henry Moore Foundation' contains 55 works selected to represent the entire career of Britain's most influential twentieth-century sculptor: from Montage of reclining figures (1928) to Tube shelter scenes (1940-41) to The artist's hands (1981). The exhibition coincides with the publication by Lund Humphries of the last volume of the catalogue raisonne of drawings.

Anybody who did not quench their thirst for Old Master and nineteenth-century portraits at the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht last month might wish to visit by appointment Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts at 42 East 76th Street, New York. The 2004 catalogue, 'Portraits and other recent acquisitions' includes a Moses in the Bulrushes by Reynolds, which is striking for reds and blues in the skin and swaddling that attest to the artist's experimentation with colour, and brushwork reminiscent of Rubens. As well as other paintings, two busts are of interest: one is of Irish satirist Swift by John Van Nost the Younger; the other George Bernard Shaw by Epstein.

Thirty excellent examples of Asian sculpture and painting are on show at Carlton Rochell, 41 East 57th Street, New York. The founder of Sotheby's Indian and Southeast Asian Department who runs the eponymous gallery has collected works from all over the sub-continent for 'Road to enlightenment: Sculpture and painting from India, the Himalayas and southeast Asia', which opened in March to coincide with Asian Art Week, and runs until 30 April. A copper sculpture of Kumara from Nepal and a ravishingly colourful eighteenth-century painting of Yamantaka from Tibet are accompanied by a sandstone sculpture of Garuda from twelfth-century Vietnam.