PATRICK HERON 1962; IMPORTANT MODERNISM ABSTRACT, watercolor; WELL LISTED ARTIST

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up for bid is an IMPORTANT 1960's MID CENTURY MODERN ABSTRACT signed & dated: P. HERON 1962.....STRONG IMAGE - SUPERB QUALITY! .......Well Listed MODERNIST ARTIST found on ASKart, ARTNET & DAVENPORTS ART REFERENCE GUIDE: PATRICK HERON 1920 - 1999, England....condition is overall GOOD, sold as-is, does have a small tear on edge SEE PICS; watercolor on thick paper, no frame.; measurements: the actual image size is 22 1/4" x 19 1/2", buyer will pay $16.99 UPS Shipping with tracking & insurance; I am selling this artwork with a 14 day guarantee on Authenticity and full customer satisfaction with the sale. Any questions I will answer to best of my ability. THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST IS TAKEN FROM ASKart: Patrick Heron was an English painter, writer and designer, based in St. Ives*, Cornwall.Born at Headingley, Leeds in Yorkshire in 1920, he was the son of Thomas Milner Heron and Eulalie 'Jack' Heron (née Davies), the first of four children (Michael, Joanna and Giles). His father was a clothes manufacturer, pacifist, socialist and leading member of the Leeds Arts Club. In 1925 the Heron family moved to West Cornwall where T M Heron took over the running of Crysede and four years later the family moved to Welwyn Garden City where Tom founded the firm Cresta Silks. It was here at his new school that Patrick Heron met his future wife Delia Reiss, daughter of Celia and Dick Reiss, co-founder of Welwyn Garden City.He attended St. George's School in Harpenden and on a school visit to the National Gallery, London in 1933 saw paintings by Paul Cézanne for the first time. He immediately began to paint in a Cézanne-influenced style. Shortly after this he was asked to make designs for Cresta Silks and continued to design for Cresta until 1951. When he was 17 he attended The Slade School of Art* for two days a week, returning to the West Country to draw the landscape. In World War II he registered as a conscientious objector and worked as an agricultural labourer for three years, then at the Leach Pottery at St. Ives between 1944-5, where he met Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and many other leading artists of the St Ives School. He had just seen Matisse's The Red Studio , exhibited at the Redfern Gallery, London and soon after this completed what he later considered to be his first mature work, The Piano. in 1943.The George Braque exhibition at the Tate Gallery* in 1946 deeply impressed him and he wrote an essay on Braque for The New English Weekly . Then up to 1953 he spent time in Europe visiting Paris, Provence and Italy. Heron visited Braque in his Paris studio and presented him with the New English Weekly article. His first one-man exhibition was at the Redfern Gallery in London in 1947. In 1953 he organized, wrote the catalogue and exhibited in Space in Colour, an exhibition of ten contemporary artists, at Hanover Gallery, London. Following this he exhibited twelve paintings at the Il Bienal di São Paulo*, Brazil. The same year he began teaching at Central School of Arts and Crafts in London and continued there until 1956. In 1956 he saw, and praised highly the American Abstract Expressionists*, who showed their work for the first time in England at the Tate Gallery. He was inspired by this group of eight painters, their confidence and the large scale and flatness.A development towards abstraction had been evident in his paintings, for example, Square Leaves (1952) and Winter Harbour (1955). The effect on Heron of the New York painters, together with his move to live at Eagles Nest, overlooking the cliffs at Zennor, that year was a pivotal point in the transformation into his now characteristic language of interlinking forms; his balancing of colour and space. Heron's deepest influences were Braque, Matisse and Bonnard, and he was connected first of all to the pure abstraction of European lineage; Naum Gabo, Pierre Soulages.Patrick Heron's writing about art began when in 1945 he was invited by Philip Mairet, editor of The New English Weekly to contribute to the journal. His first... read more

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