Anna Mayerson, Ecstasy in Motley Strokes, 1960

Anna Mayerson 1906-1984

Ecstasy in Motley Strokes, 1960

mixed media on board

122 x 102 cm

signed and dated (lower right) 'A. Mayerson '60'

2002-48

Photo: Bridgeman images

This vigorous later work shows Mayerson moving away from early figuration towards expressive abstraction and a more gestural approach, as non-figurative painting became a dominant trend in British postwar art.

Provenance

presented 2002

Exhibitions

2018 Out of Austria: Austrian emigre artists to the UK, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

Literature

Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden (London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013), p.29 (illus. included).

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