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JOHN BLACKBURN - Prescription Series, Triptych
Starting Bid: $20,000
Estimate:
$30,000 - $40,000
Live Auction
Important & Rare Art
Size
150 x 300 cm
Description
Oil & mixed media on canvas on board
Condition
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Signature
Signed
Provenance
Private Collection, Auckland
Acquired from ARTIS Gallery, Auckland
Acquired from ARTIS Gallery, Auckland
Literature
Born in Luton, England John Blackburn studied at Thanet and Maidenhead Art Schools. After a period of National Service he spent 7 years in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands where he developed his trademark idiom of indigo blue and black forms set against a white background.
Blackburn developed his distinctive style in New Zealand from around 1955, until his return to the United Kingdom in 1961. In 1959 a number of his works were shown in Auckland’s short lived Circle Gallery. It was around this time that Blackburn met Les Harvey, the Parnell entrepreneur, who was to become a life long friend and benefactor. Later that year Blackburn was included in the Auckland City Art Gallery’s exhibition Paintings, one of a dozen local artists including Robert Ellis, Hamish Keith and Tim Garrity.
In 1962 Blackburn with his wife and three children, returned to England, where the influential collector and gallery owner Jim Ede saw his one-man show in London’s Woodstock Gallery. Impressed by what he saw, Ede offered Blackburn a place in his Kettle’s Yard Gallery in Cambridge among artists such as Peter Lanyon (1918 – 1964), William Scott (1913 – 1989) and Roger Hilton (1911–1975).
Blackburn’s lyrical abstract paintings of simple, reduced strong forms in limited pure, unmixed colours are exhibited at Osborne Samuel Gallery in Mayfair, London and Lemon Street Gallery Truro, Cornwall, England.
Blackburn developed his distinctive style in New Zealand from around 1955, until his return to the United Kingdom in 1961. In 1959 a number of his works were shown in Auckland’s short lived Circle Gallery. It was around this time that Blackburn met Les Harvey, the Parnell entrepreneur, who was to become a life long friend and benefactor. Later that year Blackburn was included in the Auckland City Art Gallery’s exhibition Paintings, one of a dozen local artists including Robert Ellis, Hamish Keith and Tim Garrity.
In 1962 Blackburn with his wife and three children, returned to England, where the influential collector and gallery owner Jim Ede saw his one-man show in London’s Woodstock Gallery. Impressed by what he saw, Ede offered Blackburn a place in his Kettle’s Yard Gallery in Cambridge among artists such as Peter Lanyon (1918 – 1964), William Scott (1913 – 1989) and Roger Hilton (1911–1975).
Blackburn’s lyrical abstract paintings of simple, reduced strong forms in limited pure, unmixed colours are exhibited at Osborne Samuel Gallery in Mayfair, London and Lemon Street Gallery Truro, Cornwall, England.
