TEFAF New York 2026

For TEFAF New York, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert is delighted to present a stand dedicated entirely to the British artist, Richard Smith (1931-2016). The presentation features a selection of Smith’s New York paintings from the pivotal years 1960-63.

Richard Smith was the first artist of his generation to move from Britain to New York, where he immersed himself in the visual culture of 1960s America. Working from his SoHo loft, he drew on the imagery of advertising, packaging, magazines and popular entertainment to create paintings that captured the energy and immediacy of modern urban life.

Smith’s debut New York exhibition at Green Gallery in 1961 established him as a leading figure in the emerging Pop Art movement, with works including Chase Manhattan (1960, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC), Panatella (1960, Tate, London) and Capsule (1960-61, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia). Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert now reunites, for the first time in over fifty years, several key paintings from this formative period, among them Flip Top (1962) and Nassau (1962).