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Malcolm Morley“Torso of Christ”Circa 1983
Circa 1983
$1,800
£1,359.29
€1,556.26
CA$2,542.07
A$2,775.33
CHF 1,454.99
MX$33,707.48
NOK 18,170.50
SEK 17,157.79
DKK 11,615.82
About the Item
Original pencil drawing on sketch book paper of the “Torso of Christ” by Malcolm Morley. Signed lower right. Circa 1983. Condition is very good. Under glass. Original thin gold leaf frame. Gallery label verso. Overall framed measurements are 13.5 by 11.25 inches. Provenance: Michael Klein Gallery, New York City.
Malcolm Morley was born in North London on June 7, 1931. He had a troubled childhood, and did not discover art until serving a three-year stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison. After release, he studied art first at the Camberwell School of Arts and then at the Royal College of Art (1955–1957), where his fellow students included Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach.
In 1956, he saw an exhibition of contemporary American art at the Tate Gallery, and began to produce paintings in an abstract expressionist style.In 1958, a year after leaving the Royal College, Morley moved to New York, where he met Barnett Newman and became influenced by him. He painted a number of works at this time made up of only horizontal black and white bands. He also met Pop artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and, influenced in part by them, changed to a photo-realist style (Morley prefers the phrase super realist). He often used a grid to transfer photographic images from a variety of sources (travel brochures, calendars, old paintings etc.) to canvas as accurately as possible, and became one of the most noted photo-realists.
In the 1970s, Morley's work began to be more expressionist and he began to incorporated collage into his work. Many of his paintings from the mid-70s, such as Train Wreck (1975), depict "catastrophes". Later in the decade, he began to use his own earlier work as the subject for his paintings. In 1984, Morley won the inaugural Turner Prize. In the 1990s he returned again to a more precise photo-realist style, often reproducing images from model airplane kits on large canvases.
- Creator:Malcolm Morley (1931, British)
- Creation Year:Circa 1983
- Dimensions:Height: 6 in (15.24 cm)Width: 4 in (10.16 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Southampton, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU14116974472
Malcolm Morley
Malcolm A. Morley was a British-American visual artist and painter. He was known as an artist who pioneered in various styles, working as a photorealist and an expressionist, among many other genres.
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