LESLIE HURRY [1909-78]
Woman and Figures
watercolour and ink
signed with initials
20 x 29 cm
[frame - 32 x 41 cm]
Provenance: John Hurry Armstrong [the artist's nephew - who inherited most of his paintings when he died]; Private collection, UK
It is signed and authenticated by his nephew on the reverse, 1980.
Leslie Hurry was one of the Neo-Romantic group of UK artists - with Graham Sutherland - Keith Vaughan - Michael Ayrton - John Piper - John Craxton - Cecil Collins and Paul Nash. He was one of the best of this group and one of the main featured artists in the wonderful exhibition at the Barbican in 1987 - 'A Paradise Lost - the Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain 1935-55'. A substantial catalogue for this show was published by Lund Humphries, with a separate chapter featuring Leslie Hurry paintings.
He studied at the Royal Academy School of Art and exhibited regularly with the Redfern Gallery and Mercury Gallery [both on Cork Street, London].
Instead of teaching, which most of his contemporary artists chose, he produced theatre designs and was one of the greatest - even though he enjoyed it, this was just a side-line job and he always painted prolifically in his very original style.
A book on his paintings was published by Grey Walls Press, London in 1950.
The Tate Gallery have a good collection of his paintings.
good condition - framed