Michael Andrews 1928-1995
The Rocking Horse, 1952
Oil on hardboard
122 x 189.9 cms
48 1/16 x 74 12/16 ins
48 1/16 x 74 12/16 ins
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One of Michael Andrews most important paintings. The Rocking Horse is the only one of his three great early paintings in private hands: Man who Suddenly Fell Over is in...
One of Michael Andrews most important paintings.
The Rocking Horse is the only one of his three
great early paintings in private hands: Man who Suddenly Fell Over is in the Tate and August for the People in the collection of the Slade School of Art/UCL.
This major work was one of the first that Michael Andrews ever exhibited, when it was shown at the Beaux Arts Gallery in 1952.
The Hayward Gallery catalogue for Michael Andrews' retrospective in 1980 provides the following information:
The Rocking Horse is the only one of his three
great early paintings in private hands: Man who Suddenly Fell Over is in the Tate and August for the People in the collection of the Slade School of Art/UCL.
This major work was one of the first that Michael Andrews ever exhibited, when it was shown at the Beaux Arts Gallery in 1952.
The Hayward Gallery catalogue for Michael Andrews' retrospective in 1980 provides the following information:
During
his student years Michael Andrews lived for a while at the Epsom home of an
ex-army friend, the writer Peter Stanford. This
street scene combines a house in Paddington with a rocking horse seen in Epsom.
However, the people are types rather than specific portraits. Terence Mullaly
observed critically that the artist seemed to think he could make a picture out
of any collocation of forms, an accusation which Andrews thought to be true and
complimentary.
The picture was also shown in the 1952 Beaux Arts show, when it was entitled
A Street.
Provenance
Private Collection, acquired circa 1952Exhibitions
Four Young Artists, Beaux Arts Gallery, London, 1952Michael Andrews, Arts Council, 1980 (Hayward Gallery and Tour)
Michael Andrews, Tate, 2001. Catalogue 3
Literature
Michael Andrews, Arts Council 1980 (Hayward Gallery and Tour) Catalogue 10 illustrated page 54.Michael Andrews, Tate, 2001. Catalogue 3, illustrated full page 65