Her parents did not permit her to hang posters of pop stars on her bedroom wall as a teenager but she was allowed to hang fashion illustrations. Gray credits her father, an art dealer who collected fashion illustration on the side, with igniting her passion for fashion illustration.
“When you see an artist like René Gruau, for instance, who comes up for sale at auctions at Sotheby’s or Christie’s reaching figures between ten-fifty thousand, often more, that in itself places fashion illustration in a more recognized position.” “We now have collectors around the world who have very important art collections and they are adding fashion illustration to them, and that is exciting,” says Gray. But they’re all the most fabulous fine artists, all published, greatly admired, and incredibly successful in their periods.”Įlevating fashion illustration to fine artīut Gray is helping fashion illustration shed its inferiority complex through shows such as Drawing on Style and the resultant press coverage it garners in the London arts magazines and in fine art sections of newspapers. “It had been slightly looked down upon because it was illustrative art, it was commissioned work, and for some reason people didn’t take it quite as seriously. “Fashion illustration, until quite recently, had almost been second-tier,” Gray tells FashionUnited. The works span from the 1940s through to today and, says Gray M.C.A co-founder, Connie Gray, “shows the evolution of the genre as a discipline.” The mission of Gray M.C.A, which was founded fifteen years ago, is to show fashion illustration as fine art and indeed the space it occupies within Master Drawings includes works by Rubens, Picasso, and Goya.
Hosted by Didier Aaron gallery, as part of the Master Drawings New York event, and running for one week only, the show features work by contemporary illustrators such as David Downton, Jason Brooks and Bil Donovan alongside past greats such as Antonio, Carl Erickson and René Gruau.
London-based fashion illustration gallery Gray M.C.A has brought a capsule of their lauded 2021 Drawing on Style exhibition to New York City.
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