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Ivor Abrahams  (1935-2015)  


20th/Early 21st Century British Modernist best known for sculptures and paintings.


Hand signed limited edition color serigraph on paper


Titled Oxford Gardens


Created in 1976

Image: 16"x 21.5", Margins: 22"x 31"

Hand signed and dated lower right--see photos

Pencil numbered lower left--see photos


Looks good, in original "as found" untouched condition, surface grime, minor stains in margins, minor foxing in left margin, small dents in lower right margins, minor handling creases, unframed--please look at photos carefully.


Great looking serigraph by Ivor Abrahams depicting a sumptuous abstracted landscape in green and black, from the Oxford Gardens series. This is a fine example of Abraham's serigraphs in good condition and with a fantastic subject. My price of $199 is extremely reasonable and far below what one would be expected to pay for it in a gallery or at auction. 

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Biography:

Ivor Abrahams RA (10 January 1935 – 6 January 2015) was a British sculptor, ceramicist and print maker best known for his polychrome sculptures and his stylised prints of garden scenes.[1] His career long exploration of new subject matter, novel techniques and materials made his art dealer, James Mayor, describe him as Europe's equivalent of Robert Rauschenberg.

Ivor Abrahams was born 10 January 1935 in Wigan, Lancashire to a Jewish family,[3] the eldest of 2 children. Both parents were born in Manchester area - Ray (Rachael) née Kalisky / Kay and Harry (Hyman) Abrahams - but all four grandparents came from eastern Europe. He studied sculpture at Saint Martin's School of Art under Frank Martin and Anthony Caro 1952–54, and Camberwell School of Art under Karel Vogel and Martin Bloch 1954–57.[4] In 1957, he became apprentice to the Fiorini Bronze Foundry,[5] and went on to work as a display artist for Adel Rootstein.

His first show, in 1960, was at the Portal Gallery with Peter Blake. Through Eduardo Paolozzi, he was included in the landmark 1961 ICA exhibition 26 Young Sculptors, together with Phillip King and Maurice Agis, friends from the St Martin's days.[6]

By the late 1960s Abrahams had found inspiration in the imagery of domestic gardens.[1][4] As well as bronze, he started using new material for his work, nylon flocking, pre-vulcanized latex, styrene and plastics.[4] After a solo show at the Richard Feigen Gallery in New York in 1970, he established his international reputation with a major museum show at the Kolnisher Kunstverein Cologne in 1973. In 1975, he met James Mayor who invited him to show the following year at the Mayor Gallery, thus beginning an association which continued till his death.

Abrahams' print output includes his garden series and suites celebrating Edmund Burke and Edgar Allan Poe showcased in a Royal Academy exhibition in 2010. His body of prints was published by Bernard Jacobson[1] who regularly exhibited his work in London and the US.[4][6] In 1982, Bryan Robertson organised an exhibition of the sculptures at the Warwick Arts Trust and in 1984 he was invited to mount his first sculpture retrospective at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.[1]

Abrahams' post-Cubist architectural structures[4] of the 90s resulted in a commission by the Goodwood Sculpture Park and the purchase of the bronze 'Head of the Stairs' by the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.[7][8]

In the 2000s a series of owls and cockerels, using various media, including enamel on steel epoxy resin and decal, culminated in the 2005 Mayor Gallery exhibition 'A Parliament of Owls'.[4] 2007 saw a mini retrospective entitled 'The Four Seasons of Ivor Abrahams' at One Canada Square in Canary Wharf.[4] In 2008 the Henry Moore Institute mounted an exhibition of early work untitled 'By Leafy Ways' showing the 1972 film of the same name,[9][10] which prompted a reintroduction of the Garden image. In 2012, a retrospective at the Royal West of England Academy was accompanied by an Andrew Lambirth monograph: Eden and Other Suburbs, the Life and Work of Ivor Abrahams.

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