Edward Lewis (1936-2018) - Contemporary Oil Pastel Nude

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Description

Full of Frauvristic qualities, pastel oils have been applied in a rich painterly manner to depict an expressive study of a nude woman. The artwork has chips to the corners, revealing thick layers of previous paintings, showing a glimpse of the previous paintings that hide under the current surface.

Condition

There are some losses to the paint at the corners and along the bottom edge. There is also some surface dirt and some craquelure. The board is also slightly warped, most likely due to the amount of paint that has been applied.

Size

57.2 x 45.5cm (22.5" x 17.9")
Sheet: 58 x 45.7cm (22.8" x 18")

Collection Information

This colourful collection of works in oil by the Bath-based artist Edward Lewis (1926-2018) includes figurative studies, still life, and abstract works, in his typically expressive and vibrant style.

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Artist Biography

Edward Lewis (1936-2018) was born in Wales and, after completing a period of National Service, studied at Cambridge in the 1950’s. He was encouraged to pursue his passion for art by a maternal relative Myfanwy Evans (1911-1997), art critic and opera librettist. Myfanwy married John Piper (1903-1992), and it was John who would show Lewis' work to William Coldstream, the principal of the Slade School of Art, where he then studied in 1960.

Lewis took a teacher training job in the Rhondda, Wales, in the late 1960’s, where a rustic sense of naturalism began to enter his work, inspired by the change in his surroundings. He retired to Bath in the 1990’s, where he continued to work and exhibit. He was often inspired by his daily activities, and believed abstraction to be 'about process rather than design'. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Bath Artists’ Studios in August 2018.

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SKU qg078
Artist Edward Lewis (1936-2018)
Date Contemporary
Dimensions 57.2 x 45.5cm
Medium Oil
Style Impressionism
Subject Portrait
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