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Frank Avray Wilson
British, 1914-2009

Frank Avray Wilson British, 1914-2009

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Frank Avray Wilson, FAW757 - Eruption, 1960

Frank Avray Wilson British, 1914-2009

FAW757 - Eruption, 1960
Oil on canvas
152 x 75.5 cm
Signed and dated lower left
Dated verso
Courtesy of Whitford Fine Art, London
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Frank Avray Wilson is Britain's only real Action painter. Avray Wilson came to Abstraction following years of scientific research into the source of human aesthetics. Once he discovered that colour...
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Frank Avray Wilson is Britain's only real Action painter. Avray Wilson came to Abstraction following years of scientific research into the source of human aesthetics. Once he discovered that colour is not matter but energy, that an image could be as alive as a living cell under a microscope, Avray Wilson reached full Abstraction during the early 1950s. His so-called 'vitalist imageries' are explosions of colour and shapes bursting into strength and liveliness. During the 1950s and early 1960s, Avray Wilson enjoyed a celebrated status with no less than twelve one-man shows held at prestigious galleries in London (Redfern Gallery), Paris (Fricker) and Brussels (Helios). Ever since, his art has been firmly inscribed in Art History as ‘Tachist’, the European form of Action Painting.

A true nomad at heart and naturally multicultural, Avray Wilson was universal in his thinking and his art-making, with a strong belief in the integrating powers of art.

Avray Wilson’s work is included in the following museums: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh USA; Cleveland Museum of Modern Art, Ohio USA; Toledo Art Gallery, Ohio USA; City Art Gallery, Manchester; City Art Gallery, Leeds; ; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery; The Southampton Art Gallery; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, British Museum, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Tate, London.

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