Richard Ian Bentham Walker (1925-2009) - Three 20th Century Linoprints Nude

Description

Three bold and slightly abstract prints by Richard Ian Bentham Walker (1925-2009). Depicting a nude reclining in the artist's studio. Two completed in blue and one brown. With notes written by the artist in pencil. Signed. On wove.

Condition

Brown print has areas of discolouration and foxing. Others in good condition.

Size

19.7 x 30.7cm (7.8" x 12.1")
Sheet: 28.3 x 39.2cm (11.1" x 15.4")

Collection Information

We acquired a collection of works on paper by well listed British artist, Richard Ian Bentham Walker, direct from the artist's estate. The artworks have a wonderfully playful quality where Walker has applied the paint with large, gestural brushstrokes. The collection includes watercolour landscapes, portraits and still lifes including On The Isle Of Herm and the Channel Islands. Many of the artworks have been signed by the artist.

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Artist Biography

Croydon born painter of portraits, landscapes and imaginative subjects in oils and a wide range of media. Walker is also a printmaker and illustrator who as a young man trained at Croydon School of Art, 1945-48 and at the Slade School, 1949 under William Coldstream and Alan Gwynne Jones. He has exhibited at the RA, RP, RBA, ROI, Paris Salon, Croydon Art Society and UA the last of which elected him a member. Hill exhibited in Paris and Germany and has held a solo exhibition at the Alpine Gallery, London in 1981. His work is in the collection of Middlesbrough Council, the Museum of London and the Royal College of Music.