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Auction archive: Lot number 112

Oil on canvas Signed and titled on the stretcher 183 x 122 cm. (72 x 48 in) …

Auction 13.07.2016
13 Jul 2016
Estimate
£10,000 - £15,000
ca. US$13,160 - US$19,741
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 112

Oil on canvas Signed and titled on the stretcher 183 x 122 cm. (72 x 48 in) …

Auction 13.07.2016
13 Jul 2016
Estimate
£10,000 - £15,000
ca. US$13,160 - US$19,741
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Oil on canvas Signed and titled on the stretcher 183 x 122 cm. (72 x 48 in) Painted in 1992. Provenance: Angela Flowers Gallery, London, Purchased from the above by the present owner Peter Howson (b.1958) Peter Howson was born in 1958 in London. He moved to Scotland at the age of four where he studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1975-1977 and 1979-1981 under Alexander Moffat Influenced and encouraged by his mentor and friend Moffat, Peter Howson started to build his reputation in the 1980s as one of the central figures of the Scottish figurative painting movement - as a contemporary of Steven Campbell Adrian Wiszniewski and Ken Currie Peter Howson's oeuvre comprises a range of different subjects: his early works are characterised by large format paintings depicting the Glasgow underclass - portraying an overtly working-class world showing mainly massive, predominantly male figures, sometimes even featured as nudes, portrayed in a bold, muscular style where Howson uses line and colour to strongly underline this expressive effect. The atmosphere of these works range from sympathy and tenderness to the seething hotbed of violence. Peter Howson was fascinated by the fast growing body building culture; he was intrigued by the shadowy, the exotic unknown and sometimes even the violent world in his creative work - the grotesque form of over-developed figures was rising in the focus of his much-vaunted work. “Howson's stated abhorrence of violent culture is reflected and often replicated in much of his work and there seems to be an intrinsic link between the potent, and sometimes literal, violence of his paintings and their depiction of muscle-bound monsters. His portrayals of Glasgow's down-and-outs and working class macho culture amidst the industrialised wasteland of Clydeside in the west of Scotland in the 1970s and 1980s gained him a vast amount of public and media attention." (Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries, Peter Howson Biography) Later, in 1993, he accompanied a British contingent of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force in Bosnia as the Official British War Artist documenting the horrors of the civil war. During this period he produced some of his most shocking and controversial works detailing the abysses and atrocities of war. In his recent works he has increasingly turned to Christian subjects. Howson is both nationally and internationally widely collected and features in the National Galleries of Scotland as well as many private collections. Peter Howson is a recipient of numerous honours and was awarded the Henry Moore Foundation Prize in 1988. In 2009 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Auction archive: Lot number 112
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jul 2016
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Oil on canvas Signed and titled on the stretcher 183 x 122 cm. (72 x 48 in) Painted in 1992. Provenance: Angela Flowers Gallery, London, Purchased from the above by the present owner Peter Howson (b.1958) Peter Howson was born in 1958 in London. He moved to Scotland at the age of four where he studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1975-1977 and 1979-1981 under Alexander Moffat Influenced and encouraged by his mentor and friend Moffat, Peter Howson started to build his reputation in the 1980s as one of the central figures of the Scottish figurative painting movement - as a contemporary of Steven Campbell Adrian Wiszniewski and Ken Currie Peter Howson's oeuvre comprises a range of different subjects: his early works are characterised by large format paintings depicting the Glasgow underclass - portraying an overtly working-class world showing mainly massive, predominantly male figures, sometimes even featured as nudes, portrayed in a bold, muscular style where Howson uses line and colour to strongly underline this expressive effect. The atmosphere of these works range from sympathy and tenderness to the seething hotbed of violence. Peter Howson was fascinated by the fast growing body building culture; he was intrigued by the shadowy, the exotic unknown and sometimes even the violent world in his creative work - the grotesque form of over-developed figures was rising in the focus of his much-vaunted work. “Howson's stated abhorrence of violent culture is reflected and often replicated in much of his work and there seems to be an intrinsic link between the potent, and sometimes literal, violence of his paintings and their depiction of muscle-bound monsters. His portrayals of Glasgow's down-and-outs and working class macho culture amidst the industrialised wasteland of Clydeside in the west of Scotland in the 1970s and 1980s gained him a vast amount of public and media attention." (Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries, Peter Howson Biography) Later, in 1993, he accompanied a British contingent of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force in Bosnia as the Official British War Artist documenting the horrors of the civil war. During this period he produced some of his most shocking and controversial works detailing the abysses and atrocities of war. In his recent works he has increasingly turned to Christian subjects. Howson is both nationally and internationally widely collected and features in the National Galleries of Scotland as well as many private collections. Peter Howson is a recipient of numerous honours and was awarded the Henry Moore Foundation Prize in 1988. In 2009 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Auction archive: Lot number 112
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jul 2016
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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