Item NMC/1508 - Portrait of Harry

Portrait of Harry (Version 1) Portrait of Harry (Version 2)

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NMC/1508

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Portrait of Harry

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  • Jul 1967 (Creation)

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1

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Study of school boy. Another pencil sketch, verso. Signed: "Fyffe Christie July 1967" (in pencil), bottom left.

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(1918-1979)

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Fyffe Christie was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1946-1951, under muralist Walter Pritchard. He was a teacher at Barking Abbey Comprehensive School, Barking in the later years of his life. Christie had a good career as an artist, perhaps most famous for his murals and work in Scotland. He followed the artistic developments of European Modernism closely - it is easy to see the influence of painters like Matisse and Cezanne on his later works.

Archival history

Exhibited: 'Drawings of the School Children', Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, 1991, no.79 (illustrated)

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Gift of artist's widow, Eleanor Christie-Chatterley, November 2013.

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Black ink, red and black conte on paper. Another pencil sketch, verso Signed: Fyffe Christie July 1967 (pc, b.l.)

Dimensions: 547 x 337 mm

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