'Everyone Sang': Sassoon Exhibition at the Francis Kyle Gallery, London, 1 November - 7 December 2006

November 17, 2006

Francis Kyle Gallery Exhibition: "Everyone Sang"

An exhibition of paintings,'Everyone Sang: a view of Siegfried Sassoon and his world by twenty-five painters today', will open at the Francis Kyle Gallery, 9 Maddox Street, Mayfair, London W1S 2QE on Wednesday 1 November and continue there until Thursday 7 December 2006. The Francis Kyle Gallery (T: +44 (0)20 7499 6870 / 6970, F: +44 (0)20 7495 0180) opens Monday - Friday: l0 am - 6 pm, Saturday: 11am - 5pm and further details of the exhibition, gallery and its location are available below or from the gallery's website at http://www.franciskylegallery.com , or by e-mail to: info@franciskylegallery.com .

To quote from the Gallery's website:

'Perhaps there is no figure who better expresses the contradictions of the times than Siegfried Sassoon, ardent cricketer and foxhunter, poet and novelist, war hero and war protester, whom his friend T. E. Lawrence described once as "the ideal Englishman".

Early in 2005, twenty-five contemporary artists were invited by the Gallery to explore Siegfried Sassoon's world in whatever way they chose, spanning his long life from sheltered Edwardian childhood to the experience of the Great War, through into the restless 1920s and 1930s and his late conversion to Roman Catholicism at Heytesbury.'

Patrick Villa
editor@warpoets.org