Michael Andrews 1928-1995
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Biography
Michael Andrews was one of Britain's leading post-war painters, despite his relatively small oeuvre.
Andrews was a notoriously slow and painstaking painter and during his lifetime had few solo exhibitions.He is often associated with the School of London, a circle of figurative painters which notably included Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitaj and Leon Kossoff. Similar to these artists Andrews's art demonstrates a preoccupation with the depiction of the human condition. From the beginning of his career in the early 1950s, Andrews's work was characterised by an intensity of observation and exacting technical virtuosity.
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Exhibitions
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Celebrating 25 Years of James Hyman Gallery
27 Oct - 20 Dec 202427th October 2024 marks twenty five years since the founding of James Hyman Fine Art in 1999. To mark this anniversary we are staging a special online exhibition. Based in St James’s and Mayfair for most of this time, the gallery has specialised in Twentieth Century British Art with a...Read more -
Modern British Art 2024
Rarities. An Online Exhibition 19 Jul - 1 Sep 2024We are pleased to present this summer selection of 20th Century British works. The focus is on rarities. These include previously unrecorded photographs by John Deakin, a rare 1960s Derrick Greaves, one of Kossoff’s largest and most powerful portrait works on paper, historically important works by Eduardo Paolozzi and Nigel...Read more -
Modern British Art
1 Sep - 23 Dec 2022Tony Bevan, Prunella Clough, John Davies, Derrick Greaves, Nigel Henderson, Leon Kossoff, Edward Middleditch, Peter Phillips, Paula Rego, Walter Richard Sickert, Jack Smith and Aubrey Williams.Read more -
Modern British Art 2022
29 Mar - 31 May 2022Read more -
Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century British Art
25 Mar - 25 May 2021Michael Andrews Colony Room Mural is an icon of British cultural history by one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century. Painted on canvas, this picture was installed at the famous Colony Room Club in Soho for half a century until its closure in 2008. After cleaning...Read more -
Twentieth Century British Art 2012
6 - 21 Dec 2012Artists whose work is presented include: Frank Auerbach Tony Bevan John Bratby Edward Burra Jake & Dinos Chapman Geoffrey Clarke Prunella Clough John Davies Eric Gill David Hockney Gary Hume Conrow Maddox Robert Medley Paul Noble Hughie O'Donoghue Eduardo Paolozzi Peter Phillips Walter Richard Sickert Jack Smith William Turnbull and...Read more -
Beyond the Human Clay
5 May - 18 Jun 2011In 1976 the great figurative painter and polemicist R.B. Kitaj organized a group exhibition for the Arts Council of Great Britain entitled The Human Clay. To mark the 35th anniversary of Kitaj's seminal exhibition and to celebrate a decade of exhibitions focused on Twentieth Century British figurative art at James...Read more -
Michael Andrews. The Artist at Work
5 May - 5 Jun 2010When the great School of London painter Michael Andrews died fifteen years ago, he left behind fewer than two hundred paintings, but a rich archive of accompanying material: hundreds of pages of notes, a wealth of photographs and magazine cuttings, numerous works on paper from his formative early years in...Read more -
Modernist Realism
The School of London from Andrews to O'Donoghue 25 Feb - 1 May 2010James Hyman Gallery is pleased to present Modernist Realism an exhibition that focuses on artists who have made London their base and are often associated with the School of London. This exhibition and the simultaneous photography show, London Calling , seek to approach the School of London afresh to suggest...Read more -
Michael Andrews. Selected Watercolours and Drawings from the Artist's Estate
1 - 22 Dec 2009Read more -
Museum Quality
The Colony Room Mural and Other Important Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 10 Jun - 22 Aug 2009In celebration we have made a selection of acknowledged masterpieces and little-known rarities from the Modern British inventory of James Hyman Fine Art. We will be exhibiting for the first time, an icon of British cultural history, Michael Andrews's huge canvas, The Colony Room Mural (1958), which was installed at...Read more -
Violence and Sensation
Francis Bacon and the Remaking of Appearance 5 Sep - 4 Oct 2008James Hyman says: As this exhibition demonstrates, Bacon's legacy was not stylistic so much as conceptual: an encouragement to take risks, an art of extremes, a heightened sense of mortality.Hyman Gallery will also be presenting a series of rarely seen prints by Francis Bacon. As with Bacon, all the artists...Read more -
A Tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson
21 Nov - 1 Dec 2007James Hyman is proud to present a personal tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson, one of Britain's greatest architects and art collectors of the last half-century. The exhibition follows the death of Colin St John Wilson in May this year and coincides with the 10th anniversary of the opening...Read more -
Home and Away
Michael Andrews, Peter de Francia, Derrick Greaves, Robert Medley, Edward Middleditch, William Townsend, Arnold van Praag 12 Dec 2006 - 19 Jan 2007Read more -
From Life. Radical figurative art from Sickert to Bevan
Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Bomberg, William Coldstream, Leon Kossoff, Walter Sickert, Euan Uglow 10 Sep - 18 Oct 2003A spine runs through some of the most radical figurative art in Britain of the twentieth century. Its backbone is drawing and its fibre art school teaching, yet it is the distinct personalities of each artist that provide the meat. From Walter Sickert to Tony Bevan, what impresses one most...Read more -
Twentieth Century British Paintings and Drawings
1 Aug - 27 Sep 2002Read more
Publications
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Museum Quality
The Colony Room Mural and Other Important Modern British Works from James Hyman Gallery 2009Hardback, 48 pagesRead more
Publisher: James Hyman Gallery
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The Battle for Realism
Figurative Art in Britain during the Cold War 1945 - 60 James Hyman, 2001Hardback, 272 pagesRead more
ISBN: 0-300-09089-7
Dimensions: 28 x 23 cms
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