Alberto Martini: Masks & Shadows - at Laocoon Gallery
Alberto Martini's pen drawings were first brought to the attention of the London art market in 1914, when The Times wrote a long article highlighting the wonderful technique used by the artist in the creation of his illustrations, declaring, “there can be no question that these drawings are the most masterly that have been seen in public for years”. Now, over a hundred years later, Laocoon Gallery reunites a part of this critically acclaimed collection – dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Horror and certain works of William Shakespeare. It is a collection of 70 works comprising pen and pencil drawings, watercolours, engravings, lithographs and oil paintings which placed the artist simultaneously as the epigone of Italian decadentismo and symbolism as well as the absolute precursor of surrealism. Alberto Martini was one of the most original and eccentric of the European illustrators from the early 20th century, his greatness and inimitability consist above all in a virtuosic ability to use pen and Indian ink with such intricate and obsessional technique that his drawings seem like engravings. This exhibition was inaugurated at Galleria W. Apolloni of Rome in June this year, and is the culmination of a substantial research project by Monica Cardarelli, founder and director of Galleria del Laocoonte in Rome and Laocoon Gallery of London, which she started when she studied at the University of Florence. It is accompanied by a book and catalogue.

The Human Form on Paper - In Movement and Repose - at Patrick Bourne & Co
For their first LAW presentation, they will be showing 20th century drawings and watercolours depicting the human figure. Their selection of eight works on paper include an exceptional watercolour of two bathers by Stanley Cursiter from 1920, when the artist was living and working in Cassis in the South of France. Further works are by Pablo Picasso, Percy Wyndham Lewis and Eric Robertson.

Regency Silver - at Koopman Rare Art
A theme of silver treasures from the Regency period (1811- 1820), famed for its grandeur and patriotic enthusiasm. This led to a demand for ostentatious works of art and fabulous masterpieces in silver and silver-gilt, including this only known and highly important set of eight impressive silver-gilt candlesticks made in London in 1816 by Paul Storr (1771- 1844), considered to be among the largest and most ambitious ones made in 19th century Britain.

The Belle Époque: 1870-1914 - at Elliott Fine Art
This thematic exhibition will show paintings and drawings from the Belle Époque and in particular artists that have fallen out of fashion and are waiting to be re-discovered, among them many women. There are works by Swiss painter Lucie Attinger, which perfectly illustrate the strong group of women artists active at the time, alongside pieces by French, German and Swedish artists.

Saints & Miracles - at Sam Fogg
Over the last three decades, Sam Fogg has built a reputation as the world's leading dealer in the art of the European Middle Ages. By raising the profile and visibility of this great and expanding subject, the gallery is committed to continually challenging and redefining the market for Medieval art. This winter the gallery’s exhibition includes some beautiful depictions of saints, like Saint Martin, but also covers the rise in processional liturgy during the later Middle Ages, and the concurrent development of the gold- and silversmith's art.

Giorgione to Picasso: Masterworks of Six Centuries - at Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
With a move to its new premises in Mayfair, the gallery is also publishing a special catalogue, Giorgione to Picasso: Masterworks of Six Centuries, featuring 25 exceptional drawings dating from the 15th to the 20th century, including works by François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Thomas Gainsborough, Paul Gauguin, Guercino, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Henri Matisse, Emil Nolde, Odilon Redon, Egon Schiele, Giambattista Tiepolo and Antoine Watteau.

Scottish Art - at The Fine Art Society
The Fine Art Society is staging an exhibition to emphasise that the Society is two galleries working together as one, so the London gallery will be showing highlights from the Edinburgh gallery. Among them are early works by James McIntosh Patrick (1907-1988) and Joan Eardley (1921-1963).

Karen Taylor Fine Art will be putting on a special Christmas exhibition, A Seasonal Box of Delights. Kallos Gallery's exhibition focuses on Warriors & Warfare in the Ancient World, while Paris dealer Galerie Chenel will bring some winter highlights to London and Georg Laue, Kunstkammer Ltd is showing some of the best works that could be found in Wunderkammers of the past.

SYMPOSIUM & TALKS:
Guy Peppiatt Fine Art: Paul Jacob Naftel  The Hills of Skye, c. 1860; The third London Art Week Symposium takes place this Winter, in collaboration with and organised by the Jewish Country Houses project, a joint research project spearheaded by the University of Oxford's Faculty of History. Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market c. 1850-1930 will be held on LAW Digital over three evenings, from 6pm to 7.15pm (GMT) on the 6th, 7th and 9th December. Panellists from the US, UK and Europe will be discussing the publication of Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern; the forthcoming publication of the Wertheimer family biography and specifically their relationship with John Singer Sargent; and hold a roundtable discussion about the heritage of Jewish art dealerships.