Derek Boshier British, b. 1937
Study of Buddy Holly for "I Wonder what My Heroes Think of the Space Race", 1962
Pencil on paper
33 x 26 cm
Signed and dated lower centre
Derek Boshier was one of the 1962 graduates of the Royal College of Art (RAC) who established Pop Art as a movement in Britain. Boshier's works brought a strong satirical...
Derek Boshier was one of the 1962 graduates of the Royal College of Art (RAC) who established Pop Art as a movement in Britain. Boshier's works brought a strong satirical edge to British Pop Art that would set him apart from his contemporaries. Since the 1960s, his art had gone through various phases; touching on Pop Art, as well as hard-edge Op Abstraction and politically radical conceptual art.
This drawing is a study for a painting which belongs to the Government Art Collection (GAC) and was displayed at the British Embassy in Moscow (the painting refers to the 1961 flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin). In June 2011, it was exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery, together with other paintings from the GAC.
Boshier currently works and lives in Los Angeles, California.
Public collections include:
British Council, London
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Holland
Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
HRH The Queen, Windsor Castle
The National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
This drawing is a study for a painting which belongs to the Government Art Collection (GAC) and was displayed at the British Embassy in Moscow (the painting refers to the 1961 flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin). In June 2011, it was exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery, together with other paintings from the GAC.
Boshier currently works and lives in Los Angeles, California.
Public collections include:
British Council, London
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Holland
Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
HRH The Queen, Windsor Castle
The National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
Provenance
The Artist.
Exhibitions
2016, Pop Art Heroes: Pop, Pin-Ups & Politics, Whitford Fine Art, London.
Literature
Derek Boshier: Rethink / Re-entry. London, 2015. Edited by Paul GORMAN with foreword by David HOCKNEY, pl. no. 3, p.13, ill.
Pop Art Heroes Britain, exhibition catalogue, Whitford Fine Art, London, 2016, cat. no. 8, ill.
This is Today, exhibition catalogue, Gazelli Art House, 2016, ill. p.87.