Shop (and view art) till you drop: John Bellany’s paintings pop up in Fortnum & Mason

The genteel shoppers at London’s swankiest department store, Fortnum & Mason, will no doubt have spotted Scottish artist John Bellany’s works strewn around the various nooks and crannies of the high-end store (Fortnum’s X Frank 17; until 28 October). Fifty pieces by Bellany, who meditated on grand themes such as good and evil, have been loaned by the UK collector Frank Cohen and the Bellany Estate. Cohen says: “When everyone was making abstracts and Pop paintings, Bellany was creating amazing images: revealing, ambitious and tough, distilling raw emotion onto the canvas.” Ewan Venters, the chief executive of Fortnum’s, quipped meanwhile: “Bellany believed that art belongs out in the world, which makes it all the more exciting that Frank and the Bellany Estate have chosen our cornershop at Piccadilly to show this incredible body of work.”