Derek Boshier British, b. 1937
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.