Art UK, Live Auction
29 SEPTEMBER 202118. Anthony Whishaw RA
Downstream Flood
Medium: acrylic & collage on canvas
Execution date: 2003–2004
Dimensions: 127 x 127 x 3 cm unframed
Inscription: signed on reverse
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£12,000 - 18,000
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Anthony Whishaw RA is an English artist and member of the Royal Academy. He claims no association with any particular art movement, stating instead that ‘each painting and work on paper makes its own separate demands’.
Anthony Whishaw studied at Chelsea School of Art from 1948 to 1952 (awarded NDD) and the Royal College of Art, London from 1952 to 1955, when he was awarded the ARCA (first-class hons), the RCA Travelling Scholarship, an Abbey Minor Scholarship and a Spanish Government Scholarship.
His work deals with explorations of memory and experience. On the edge of representation, varying in intent, scale and depiction, it seeks to reconcile illusion and allusion, the abstract and the figurative, past and present pictorial languages to create unforeseen visual experiences.