Lot 175: m - ANTHONY FRY, B.1927

FOREST FIRE WITH BEAR AND JINETTA

91x101cm.; 35¾x39¾in.

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Browse and Darby, London

NOTE

A great nephew of the artist and critic Roger Fry, Anthony Fry studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art and Camberwell School of Art under Victor Pasmore, Lawrence Gowing and William Coldstream. In 1961, he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship, which took him to America for two years, exposing him to the influence of the American abstract expressionists, notably Mark Rothko. He taught at both Bath Academy and at Camberwell School of Art in the 1950s. His first solo exhibition was held in London at the St George's Gallery in 1955, followed by another solo show in New York at Durlacher Bros. in 1961. A member of the London Group, Fry's paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery, the Arts Council of Great Britain, The Saatchi Collection, the Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, U.K., and the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.