TREVOR BELL

(British, b. 1930)

ORANGE AND DARK, 1958

11 ¼ x 16 Inches

Signed and Dated Lower Left. "BELL '58"

Gouache on Paper Laid Down on Card

Provenance: Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca

This work is accompanied by a copy of:

'Trevor Bell' by Chris Stephens & Elizabeth Knowles.

Sansom & Company, Bristol, 2009.

An abstract painter associated with the St. Ives Group, Trevor Bell was born in Leeds, England, in 1930. He first studied at the Leeds College of Art and by the early 1950s, he was a leading member of the St. Ives Artist's Colony. In 1958, he was granted a one-man show at the Waddington Galleries in London. A winner of the Biennale de Paris International Painting Prize, Bell was also awarded an Italian Government Art Scholarship. He later became a Gregory Fellow in painting at Leeds University.  After a large traveling retrospective in Scotland, Ireland and England in 1970 and a major one-man show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1973, Bell established a studio in Tallahassee, Florida where he worked as Professor of Painting at Florida State University. He has lived and worked in England, France, Italy and Canada, and has been a regular exhibitor in private galleries in Miami, Atlanta and Chicago. Bell's works may be found in the permanent collections of numerous international museums and prominent private collections. We are pleased to offer this complex and monumental work, painted when the artist was 28 years old.

Reference:

Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Vol. II p. 42;  Palladino-Craig, Alice. Trevor Bell, A British Painter in America, Catalog, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, 2003; Dictionary of British Art: 20th Century Painters and Sculptors, Spalding, Vol. IV, p.74, Illustration p.90;  Davenport’s Art Reference Guide, 2007/8 Edition, p. 234; et al.