Lot 870: Keith Gretton, British b.1934- "Rose Lady";

Keith Gretton, British b.1934- "Rose Lady"; stoneware ceramic on a composite base, signed with monogram on the base, dated '85 on the sculpture, height 48cm, (may be subject to Droit de Suite) Trained as a mural painter and lithographic printmaker. Head of the Art and Art History Department, Borough Road College, London, until 1982. Co-founded the Battersea Contemporary Art Fair 1992. 1996 constructed several installations. From 1998 began building ceramic figurative sculptures. PRINCIPAL SOLO SHOWS Durham University, Dance Attic Gallery, Riverside Studios, Barbican Centre, Stables Art Gallery, Fitzhammon Art Centre, Oval House Theatre, Speck Studio Gallery, Stafford Municipal Gallery, Zwemmers at the Courtauld Institute, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Homerton Hospital, All Saint's College, Brixton Art Gallery. GROUP SHOWS AND FAIRS Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, West of England Academy, Royal Academy, Barnes Art & Design Fair, Chiswick Art Emporium, Affordable Art Fair, Dulwich Craft Fair, Lambeth Country Show, Candid Art Fair, Landmark Art Fair, Islington Art Factory, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Pump House Gallery, Mall Gallery, London Chamber of Commerce, Bath Art Fair, Nine Elms Group, Skylark Gallery, Sutton House, Osterley House, Orleans House Art Gallery, Alternative Art Spitalfields, Ceramics in the City at the Geffrye Museum, London Potters at Morley Gallery [sculpture prize 2006 & 2007], Oxo Gallery, Windsor Art Fair, Brighton Art Fair, Holland Park Ice House Gallery, New Ashgate Gallery, Barn Gallery, Mode at the Business Design Centre, Art on Paper at Royal College of Art, Chiswick Craft Fair, Reading Art Fair, Jackson and Hickey Fine Art, Arthur Seager Works of Art, Birtley House Sculpture Garden, Pride of the Valley Sculpture Park Farnham, Store Street Gallery, London. COLLECTIONS Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Department of Trade and Industry, South London Community Care Hospital, Homerton Hospital Trust, plus private collections worldwide.