£475
Contemporary & Post-War Art | 595
Auction: 16 April 2020 at 12:00 BST
60/75, signed, numbered and dated in pencil to margin
Biography:
Bryan Pearce is recognised as one of the U.K.’s leading naïve artists. Born in Cornwall, he suffered from severe health problems and attended a special needs school during the 40’s and 50’s. Encouraged to paint and draw Pearce attended Leonard Fuller’s St.Ives School of Painting from 1953 to 1957. As an artist Pearce depicted his home town and surrounding landscape and on the suggestion of the sculptor Denis Mitchell he joined the Newlyn Society of Artists in 1959. He held his first solo exhibition at the Newlyn Gallery near Penzance in 1959 and subsequent major shows at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford in 1975 and the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro in 2000. In his later life he produced a series of prints in small numbered editions and our etching dates from this period.