Tony Bevan British, 1951
Portrait Boy (PC912), 1991
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
177.5 x 116.5 cm; (69 7/8 x 45 7/8 in.)
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Tony Bevan: Painting 1980-87 at the ICA in London confirmed Bevan’s status as a leading figure in British painting. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Bevan moved from subjectivity towards...
Tony Bevan: Painting 1980-87 at
the ICA in London confirmed Bevan’s status as a leading figure in British
painting. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Bevan moved from subjectivity towards
abstraction. At the core of Bevan’s art is an abiding preoccupation
with confronting the self. While early figurative works such as Portrait Boy,
1991, are more literal, towards the end of the 1990s Bevan abandons nearly all
reference to the face, leaving an abstract tangle of lines and creating an
architectural space.
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