At Frieze Masters 2026, Annely Juda Fine Art presents works exploring the human figure and the body, as it has been imagined across sculpture, photography, painting and drawing. The presentation draws on artists with a long history at the gallery: Anthony Caro, Christo, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff, Prunella Clough, Katsura Funakoshi, John Davies, Georges Vantongerloo, Alexander Rodchenko, László Moholy-Nagy and Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart. To these, the gallery adds historic figures whose work extends this theme: André Kertész, Frank Auerbach and Andy Warhol.
Reflecting the gallery's longstanding relationship with David Hockney, we will present three portraits: an ink drawing of David Judafrom 1972, a pencil portrait of Annely Juda from 1999 and an ink drawing of Hockney's father, also 1972. Drawing underpinned Hockney's approach to every medium throughout his career, a discipline rooted in his early training in perspective and anatomy, and treated as the visual language through which an artist could record the world as accurately as possible.
Among the works on show are pieces by artists from the gallery's historical programme of Constructivist, Bauhaus and De Stijl artists, many of whom began as figurative artists before turning to abstraction. Georges Vantongerloo, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewartand László Moholy-Nagy are represented by early works, painted in a representational stylebefore each artist further develop their abstract practices. Anthony Caro's Figure reflects an early period in his own practice, when his sculptural work was still representational, depicting human and animal forms such as bulls. Prunella Clough's work follows a related path in reverse, with the figure resurfacing within an increasingly abstracted visual language.
Also on view are portraits by Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, key figures of the twentieth century School of London. In the postwar period, their practices radically reformulated approaches to the human figure, foregrounding personal connection and an immediacy of sensation, seen here in two of Kossoff's portraits and Auerbach's J.Y.M. Seated in the Studio III.
Katsura Funakoshi carved solitary figures from camphor wood, painted in subtle tones that mimic human flesh; rarely likenesses, they are intensely personal, carrying the presence of real people, of body and of spirit. John Davies has spent his career as a figurative sculptor working with lifelike, often life-size figures; the work at our booth is from the period when this realism first drew attention. Christo's practice began with the wrapping of everyday objects in fabric, paper and plastic, before turning to the human body itself. Packed Girl, made for a temporary wrapping project in Minneapolis in 1967, belongs to this formative moment alongside his iconic Wedding Dress produced the same year.
Photography has been a pivotal medium since the early twentieth-century avant-garde, when artists such as André Kertész and Aleksandr Rodchenko began exploring its possibilities. Kertész's self portrait reflects photography's capacity for introspection, while Rodchenko's portraits of Vladimir Mayakovsky capture the intimacy between two figures of the Russian avant-garde. Andy Warhol similarly used photography to record the people around him.
ANNELY JUDA FINE ART
Annely Juda Fine Art presents a programme of contemporary artists alongside historical works from the C20th avant-garde. Known for representing world-leading artists such as David Hockney, David Nash and Suzanne Treister, alongside the estates of Anthony Caro, Naum Gabo and Leon Kossoff, the gallery recently added new artists including Nicola Turner and Sammi Lynch to the stable. Based in new premises at 16 Hanover Square - a Georgian townhouse - the gallery has operated since 1968.
