GEOFF MACEWAN (SCOTTISH B.1943) §
WINTER
£1,200
Modern British and Contemporary Art
Auction: 17 January 2018 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Signed and inscribed with title verso, oil on canvas
Dimensions
152cm x 121cm (59.75in x 47.5in)
Footnote
Note: Born in Edinburgh, Geoff MacEwan trained to be an artist at London's Goldsmiths College, followed by a 2 year postgraduate fellowship at the Slade School where he was a contemporary of Derek Jarman and Maggie Hambling.
McEwan's last major one-man show in Scotland was of paintings based on Dante's Commedia at the Talbot Rice Centre, Edinburgh (1986). At that time he belonged to Andrew Brown's stable of artists at his 369 Gallery that included Caroline McNairn, Fiona Carlisle, Callum Innes and Rob McLaurin.
He has lived and worked on the Spanish island of Mallorca since 1991 and was awarded a fellowship to work with Juan Miro's printmaker, Juan Barbera at the Miro Foundation, Palma de Mallorca (1995).
McEwan exhibits regularly, most recently at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum and Christchurch Gallery, annually at galleries in Palma and Valencia and at ARCO Madrid.
His work is held in private collections in Spain and the UK and in major public collections including: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; The National Library of Scotland; The Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh
St John's College, Oxford; The Miro Foundation, Palma de Mallorca; The Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Arte y Naturaleza, Madrid; Benveniste Gallery, Madrid; Joan Oliver Gallery, Mallorca
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