More than 60 works drawn from the holdings of the gregarious UK private collector Frank Cohen will go on show at one of London’s most luxurious food and gifts emporiums this autumn (Fortnum’s X Frank, 13 September-15 October). The high-end department store Fortnum & Mason, which faces the Royal Academy of Arts on Piccadilly, will be dotted with works by big-name artists such as Howard Hodgkin (first floor staircase), Paula Rego (fifth floor entrance) and Frank Auerbach (in the window along with Tracey Emin and Lynn Chadwick). Robert Upstone, the former director of Modern British art at the Fine Art Society, will organise the retail-cum-art display at Fortnum's which, says a press statement, is “renowned for its famous teas, scotch eggs, handmade chocolates and iconic wicker hampers”.
