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Glyn Morgan
Portrait of Lady in Green - Welsh Post Impressionist 50s art oil painting

1956

$3,768.67
£2,750
€3,233.71
CA$5,226.76
A$5,627.09
CHF 3,013.41
MX$67,804.40
NOK 38,020.94
SEK 34,795.30
DKK 24,163.56

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This superb British Post Impressionist oil painting is by artist Glyn Morgan. Morgan was a noted Welsh artist, initially taught by Ceri Richards in Cardiff and later a Benton End student where he was greatly influenced by Cedric Morris who proved to be his main source of inspiration throughout his artistic career. Painted in 1956 it is a head and shoulders portrait of a lady in green facing left against a plain greenish background. The bold, confident brushwork is absolutely fantastic. This is a fine example of Morgan's work and a superb Post Impressionist fifties portrait oil painting. Signed mid right Morgan 56. Provenance: Family estate. Condition. Oil on board, 19 inches by 15 inches and in good condition. Frame. Housed in a complementary frame, 25 inches by 21 inches and in good condition. Glyn Morgan was a Welsh artist, born in Pontypridd, Glamorgan, in 1926. His artistic education began at Cardiff College of Art in 1942, where he studied under renowned Welsh artist Ceri Richards. It was during his time at Cardiff that Glyn was first introduced to the work of Cedric Morris, who proved to be his main source of inspiration throughout his artistic career. In 1944 Glyn studied at Benton End (formally known as the East Anglian School of Drawing and Painting), where his friendship with Cedric Morris began. Benton End afforded space for Morris, Lett-Haines and many of their students to live as well as work at the school which contributed to the communal atmosphere and encouraged its laissez-faire but inspiring approach to learning. Jon Lys Turner's biography of the illustrator Richard Chopping and his partner Dennis Wirth-Miller, both alumni of the East Anglian School, characterises it as 'a place for the free exchange of artistic ideas and techniques'. The students were given a 'nom de plume' by Lett Haines. The school was anti-hierarchical as well as anti-patriarchal, with little in the way of structure or rules, and provided a setting for sexual as well as artistic liberation. While Morris focused on the students' work, Lett-Haines oversaw the school's administration as well as cooking two meals a day and thanks to Morris' work in the vegetable garden and Lett-Haines' enthusiasm for cooking, the community at Benton End did not experience hardships on the scale of wartime London. Through the 1940s and 1950s Benton End became the centre of a diverse community of twentieth-century artists, writers, and horticulturalists. Friends and visitors included the artists John Nash and Francis Bacon (October 1909 - April 1992) and the writers Ronald Blythe ( November 1922 - January 2023) and Stephen Spender (February 1909–July 1995). Glyn and Morris painted each other many times, and Glyn organised a Benton End exhibition at Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery in 1985, as well as contributing to the 2002 book ‘Benton End Remembered’. Glyn went on to attend Camberwell School of Art from 1947-1948 and during his time there he also taught painting at schools in Suffolk, Somerset and even Greece. His travels in Greece inspired an interest in Greek mythology, and he produces a series of paintings inspired by Greek mythology which were shown at the Chappel Galleries in 1996. Classical music also inspired his work, and his roots in Welsh history are also present in his work. Interestingly, he was very open about how difficult he sometimes found painting – he said in 1994 at the time of his and Cedric Morris’ exhibition at the Chappel Galleries ‘My pictures were, and still are, a battlefield’ (Telegraph’s obituary). The Chappel Galleries in Colchester exhibited Glyn’s work from the mid 90s through to 2014. He held numerous other solo shows, including at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth in 2006.
  • Creator:
    Glyn Morgan (1926, British)
  • Creation Year:
    1956
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 25 in (63.5 cm)Width: 21 in (53.34 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
  • Medium:
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Hagley, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU853117458572

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