Friday 23 December 2011

Dexter Dalwood – part 2

This is part 2 of a 2-part post on contemporary English artist Dexter Dalwood. For biographical notes on Dalwood, and earlier works, see part 1.


2004 Birth of the U.N.

2004 Truman Capote 
oil on canvas 173 x 213cm

2005 Burroughs in Tangiers

2005 Herman  Melville

2005 Trial of Milosevic I 
oil on canvas 268 x 378cm

2006 Brighton Bomb 
oil on canvas 200 x 160cm

2006 Bringing It All Back Home 
oil on canvas 250 x 200cm

2006 The Deluge 
oil on canvas 274 x 457cm

2007 Altamont 
oil on canvas 210 x 174cm

2007 The Calm 
oil on canvas 200 x 250cm

2008 Death of David Kelly 
oil on canvas 203 x 173cm

2008 Greenham Common 
oil oncanvas

2008 Lennie

2008 The Umbrella Murder

2008 Under Blackfriars 
oil on canvas 207 x 248cm

2009 Burroughs' Tell 
oil on canvas 170 x 200cm

2009 Death of Lincoln 
oil on canvas 150 x 175cm

2009 Gorky's Studio 
oil on canvas 200 x 250cm

2009 Hunter S Thompson 
oil on canvas 148 x 150cm

2009 Mandalay 
oil on canvas 200 x 250cm

Wednesday 21 December 2011

Dexter Dalwood – part 1

Taking a look at some contemporary painting for a change – this is part 1 of a 2-part post on the works of English artist Dexter Dalwood. Dalwood was born in Bristol, England in 1960. He received a B.A. from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London in 1985, and an M.A. from the Royal College of Art, London in 1990. Dalwood’s first solo exhibition was held in 1992 at the Clove Building, London.

Since then, Dexter Dalwood’s collages and paintings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, building a strong reputation over the last decade in the UK, Europe, and the United States. Solo exhibitions include “Dexter Dalwood,” a major survey of his work at Tate St Ives, which tours to FRAC Champagne – Ardenne, Reims, France and CAC Malaga, Spain. This comprehensive exhibition, featuring work from the past 12 years, allows the public to gain a fuller understanding of Dalwood’s key stylistic and thematic interests. Dexter Dalwood’s work is found in both the Tate and Saatchi collections, and has been integral to many highly innovative and landmark group exhibitions.

He was shortlisted as one of the four nominees for the Turner Prize 2010.


1998 Paisley Park 
oil on canvas 152 x 183cm

1998 Sharon Tate's House 
oil on canvas 183 x 235cm

1998 The Liberace Museum 
oil on canvas 152 x 183cm

1998 The Queen's Bedroom 
oil on canvas 193 x 183cm

1999 Camp David 
oil on canvas 198 x 335cm

1999 Robert Mapplethorpe's First Loft 
oil on canvas 213 x 244cm

1999 Room 100, Chelsea Hotel 
oil on canvas 183 x 213cm

1999 Solzhenitsyn’s Reading Room 
oil on canvas 91 x 99cm

2000 Bill Gates' Bedroom 
oil on canvas 203 x 183 cm

2000 Gorbachev's Winter Retreat 
oil on canvas 198 x 236cm

2000 Jackie Onassis 
oil on canvas 214 x 244cm

2000 Kurt Cobain's Greenhouse 
oil on canvas 214 x258cm

2001 Hendrix's Last Basement 
oil on canvas

2001 Nietzsche's Chalet 
oil on canvas 125 x 115cm

2002 Grosvenor Square 
oil on canvas 268 x 347cm

2002 McCarthy's List 
oil on canvas 201 x 279cm

2003 Diana Vreeland

2003 Sunny Von Bulow 
oil on canvas 105 x 207cm

2003 Versailles in the Jungle

2004 Bay of Pigs oil on canvas 268 x 348cm

Monday 19 December 2011

Émile Bernard - part 2

1897 Self-Portrait

This is part 2 of a 2 part post on the works of French Post-Impressionist painter Émile Bernard. For biographical notes on Bernard see part 1.


1892 Breton Women with Parasols

1892 Madeleine au bois d'amour 
oil on canvas

1892 Self-portrait as a Troubadour 
oil on canvas

1892 Still Life with Teapot, Apples and Dishes 
oil on board

1893 Still Life with Grapes 
oil on canvas

1893 Two Arab Women at the Edge of the Nile 
oil on canvas

1895 African Woman 
oil on canvas

1895 Three Women on the Banks of a River 
oil on canvas

1898 The Three Races 
oil on canvas

1900 Woman Smoking Hashish 
oil on canvas

1908 Nymphs after Bathing 
oil on canvas

1912 At the Harem 
oil on canvas

Breton Landscape

Breton Woman and Haystacks

Harvest next to the Sea

Lady with a Fan oil on canvas

Portrait of Piere Tanguy 
oil on canvas

Still Life with Orange

Street in Saint Briac

The Cliffs at Le Pouldu