The Citrus Garden at Villa Oasis, Marrakesh.

GBP 4,500.00

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Object Description

Original painting in gouache and ink on hand made Arches 850gm paper.

Object History

From the Artist’s studio

Object Literature

Alan Halliday (b.1952) is an internationally established British artist. (See, The Dictionary of British Artists since 1945).
Art critic John Russell Taylor writing in The Times said, “Halliday paints what obsesses him. His style is boldly calligraphic. Even his large-scale oil paintings depend largely on the definition of effective line while his smaller works in ink, gouache and pastel are built on a structure of amazingly fluid, spontaneous strokes of the pen; but they are in fact more than that. While the line may define the form, it is the colour which gives it form and life.”
Halliday has been a successful professional artist for 40 years, holding more than 100 exhibitions in the USA, Europe, India and the Middle East. His paintings are in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum; the Theatre Museum, The Museum of London as well as Oxford University colleges and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, USA. His paintings are also acquired by private collectors worldwide.

Trained at the Courtauld Institute of Art (1970-74), in 1982 Halliday was awarded a doctorate in the history of art by Oxford University. His first mentor was John Piper, the distinguished British neo-romantic painter. Piper encouraged the young artist to build up an extensive archive of sketchbooks to draw on for future use and summed up Halliday’s style as “an arrangement of painted marks, all on the surface and yet all in depth”.

Object Condition

Execellent
Framed

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