In fine condition.
9 x 17.5cm (3.5" x 6.9")Framed Size: 23 x 32cm (9.1" x 12.6")
Douglas Portway was born in Johannesburg in 1922 and grew up in difficult and unsettled circumstances. He began his working life as a window-dresser, drawing in his spare time, and later studied at the Witwatersrand Technical Art School (1943-44). Dissatisfied with academic training, he pursued an independent artistic path, teaching for several years at the Witwatersrand and the University of Johannesburg. His first solo exhibition was held in 1945 at the Constantia Gallery, Johannesburg. In 1948 he married the art student Rosalind Hertslet, with whom he collaborated on murals, tapestries and stained-glass windows before their later divorce. Awarded a travel grant in 1952, Portway spent several months in the United States. He left South Africa permanently in 1957 and travelled widely in Europe, living in Ibiza from 1959 to 1966. In 1967 he settled in St Ives, Cornwall, moving to Bristol in the early 1980s. He worked regularly in France at Razac d’Eymet in the Dordogne, where he died in 1993. Portway exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, including at international art fairs in Basel, New York and Chicago. He won the European Painting Prize Bronze Medal in 1969 and Gold Medal in 1971, and the Cornelissen Prize in 1992. A contract with the Drian Gallery in the late 1950s marked a long and important professional association, alongside numerous solo exhibitions with the Marjorie Parr and Gilbert–Parr galleries. A prolific and intensely individual artist, Portway worked across both figurative and abstract modes. His work is marked by technical mastery, erotic intensity and symbolic depth, shaped by the influence of Paul Klee, Zen philosophy and Jungian psychology. He described his painting as work that “suggests a meaning at many levels.” His work is held in major public collections including the Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Memorial retrospectives were held at the Gilbert Gallery, Dorchester, in 1997–98.
| SKU | ry885 |
|---|---|
| Frame Colour | black |
| Artist | Douglas Portway (1922-1993) |
| Date | 20th Century |
| Dimensions | 9.0 x 17.5cm |
| Medium | Etching |
| Style | Realism |
| Subject | Nudes |
| Item Returns | This item can be returned |
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