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  • Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Michael Andrews, The Rocking Horse, 1952

    Michael Andrews 1928-1995

    The Rocking Horse, 1952
    Oil on hardboard
    122 x 189.9 cms
    48 1/16 x 74 12/16 ins
    12973
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    One of Michael Andrews most important paintings. The Rocking Horse is the only one of his three great early paintings in private hands: Man who Suddenly Fell Over is in...
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    One of Michael Andrews most important paintings. 

    The Rocking Horse is the only one of his three
    great early paintings in private hands: Man who Suddenly Fell Over  is in the Tate and August for the People in the collection of the Slade School of Art/UCL.

    This major work was one of the first that Michael Andrews ever exhibited, when it was shown at the Beaux Arts Gallery in 1952.

    The Hayward Gallery catalogue for Michael Andrews' retrospective in 1980 provides the following information:

    During
    his student years Michael Andrews lived for a while at the Epsom home of an
    ex-army friend, the writer Peter Stanford. This
    street scene combines a house in Paddington with a rocking horse seen in Epsom.
    However, the people are types rather than specific portraits. Terence Mullaly
    observed critically that the artist seemed to think he could make a picture out
    of any collocation of forms, an accusation which Andrews thought to be true and
    complimentary. 


    The picture was also shown in the 1952 Beaux Arts show, when it was entitled
    A Street
    .

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    Provenance

    Private Collection, acquired circa 1952

    Exhibitions

    Four Young Artists, Beaux Arts Gallery, London, 1952
    Michael Andrews, Arts Council, 1980 (Hayward Gallery and Tour)
    Michael Andrews, Tate, 2001. Catalogue 3

    Literature

    Michael Andrews, Arts Council 1980 (Hayward Gallery and Tour) Catalogue 10 illustrated page 54.
    Michael Andrews, Tate, 2001. Catalogue 3, illustrated full page 65
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