Michael Andrews (artist)
Michael James Andrews
Life and work
Michael Andrews was born in
From 1958 he taught at the Slade and
He painted Sax AD 832[7] in 1982 to celebrate 1,150 years of the village's history. The painting was auctioned at Christie's London on 20 June 2007 and was sold for £692,000. Major exhibitions of Andrews' works were held by the Arts Council in 1981 and Tate Britain in 2001. During 1988 he served on the Board of Trustees of The National Gallery in London, but he found travelling up from Norfolk for the meetings irksome and he did not complete his full term.[citation needed] He returned to London in 1992.
In 1994 he underwent an operation for cancer before dying in London on 19 July 1995.[3] A memorial service attended by many of his Soho and Slade friends was held at St. Mary's Church, Battersea .[8] He is buried in Perthshire.
Michael Andrews played a deaf-mute in Lorenza Mazzetti's Free Cinema film Together, alongside Eduardo Paolozzi (1955).[9]
See also
References
- ^ Elena Crippa and Catherine Lampert, London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2016) – Google Books pg 87
- ISBN 1-85437-368-4, pages 164–169
- ^ a b John Russell (27 July 1995). "Michael Andrews, British Painter, Is Dead at 66". The New York Times.
- ^ Catherine Lampert (23 July 1995). "OBITUARY : Michael Andrews". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022.
- ^ "Michael Andrews RA | Digswell Arts Trust". Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^ Milja Ficpatrik (7 September 2013). "Michael Andrews - Biography". Widewalls. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ Sax AD 832 Retrieved 14 November 2007
- ISBN 978-0-7043-74355
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: Together (1956)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
Bibliography
- Andrews, Michael, and ISBN 84-88474-73-3
- Calvocoressi, Richard. Michael Andrews: The Scottish Paintings. Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1991. ISBN 0-903598-16-7
- Feaver, William, and Paul Moorhouse. Michael Andrews. London: Tate, 2001. ISBN 1-85437-368-4
- Lampert, Catherine. Michael Andrews: The Delectable Mountain. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1991. ISBN 0-85488-093-3
- Michael Andrews. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1981.
- Peppiatt, Michael. A School of London: Six Figurative Painters: Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff. London: The British Council, 1987. ISBN 0-86355-051-7
- Rock of Ages Cleft for Me: Recent Paintings. London: ISBN 0-947564-07-1
- Wilcox, Tim, et al. The Pursuit of the Real: British figurative painting from Sickert to Bacon. London: Lund Humphries, 1990. ISBN 0-85331-571-X
- Wilson, Colin St. John. The Artist at Work: On the Working Methods of William Coldstream and Michael Andrews. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 1999. ISBN 0-85331-759-3
- Michael Andrews, "Notes and Preoccupations", X magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2 (March 1960); An Anthology from X, Oxford University Press ( 1988)