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Sold Presentation: Mounted
Inscribed with title, dated, signed and numbered 22/50
Etching,
9 x 6 3/4 in. (23 x 17 cm.)
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist
Taylor's pictures combine figure and landscape with strong Neo-Romantic overtones, and are saturated with lyricism and a sense of longing. His compositions are frequently set in the artist's Devonshire garden and usually include portraits of his wife, Audrey, (as in this etching), who was a fellow artist.
A painter, teacher, writer, exhibition organiser and film-maker, born in Sheffield, Taylor studied at Sheffield College of Art, 1936-39, and at the Royal College of Art, 1939-43. He taught at Sheffield College of Art where in 1963 he established the History of Art Department. He was Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design at Sheffield Polytechnic, 1972-75. He holds a Master of Philosophy degree in art history from Nottingham University. He has organised major shows of Aubrey Beardsley and Edward Burne-Jones at Mappin Art Gallery and made the film Portrait of Beardsley. He has exhibited at the RA, NEAC, at Leicester and Redfern Galleries and in New Zealand and Canada.