Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Post-Impressionism: Augustus John


Portrait of Wyn Henderson, n.d.
double-sided ink drawing on Eiffel Tower Hotel stationary, 24.8 x 19.1 cm


Olives in Spain (c. 1925)


Un Coup de Mistral, Provence, c.1928 
oil on canvas

Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom.
"Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse. He then developed a style of portraiture that was imaginative and often extravagant, catching an instantaneous attitude in his subjects."

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