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Aspects of British Abstraction
12 March - 20 April 2018

Aspects of British Abstraction

Past exhibition
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Frank Avray Wilson, FAW758 - Vital Geometry, 1955

Frank Avray Wilson British, 1914-2009

FAW758 - Vital Geometry, 1955
Oil on canvas
185 x 58 cm
Signed and dated lower right
Courtesy of Whitford Fine Art, London
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Following years of scientific research into the source of human aesthetics, Frank Avray Wilson became a pioneer of early British post-war Abstract Expressionism. Once he discovered that colour is not...
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Following years of scientific research into the source of human aesthetics, Frank Avray Wilson became a pioneer of early British post-war Abstract Expressionism. Once he discovered that colour is not matter but energy, that an image could be as alive as a living cell under a microscope, and that human art-making is a reflection of Nature's art making, Avray Wilson arrived at full gestural painting in the early 1950s. By the 1960’s Avray Wilson had exhibited widely in the United Kingdom, France, the United States and Japan. During a varied career Avray Wilson has been a lecturer and author, whose works include ‘Art as Understanding' and 'Art as Revelation'.

Avray Wilson's paintings are present in the following museums: British Museum, London; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA; Cleveland Museum of Modern Art, Ohio, USA; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester; Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, Northampton; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton; Toledo Art Gallery, Ohio, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Provenance

Acquired directly from the Artist.

Exhibitions

2016, Frank Avray Wilson: British Tachist, Whitford Fine Art, London.

Literature

FERMON, An Jo. Frank Avray Wilson: British Tachist. 2016, London, pl. 7, p. 41, ill.

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