* ANTHONY PALLISER (BRITISH b.1949) A PARIS STILL LIFE oil on canvas, signed 90cm x 70cm (35 x 27.5 inches) Note: Remarkably, this is the first major painting by Anthony Palliser to be offered at auction, although a small 17 x 18 inch pastel portrait drawing was sold by Sotheby's, London on 15th December 2011 for £5250 (inc premium) - lot 93. (source artinfo.com). Anthony Palliser was born in 1949 of an English father and a Belgian mother. He studied at Downside School and graduated from New College Oxford. In 1967 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 1970 he settled in Paris where he still lives and works. From 1995 to 1997 he taught as visiting professor at the New York School of Visual Arts in Savannah, Georgia. He remains a frequent visitor to Savannah and Charleston, SC. where the unique landscapes of the low-country remain a constant source of inspiration. To date he has had 28 one-man exhibitions and countless group shows all over Europe and the USA. His acclaimed 1996 show ''Performers'' at Lincoln Center in New York showed his enthusiasm for the theatre and cinema. His well-known portrait of Graham Greene hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London and that of Paddy Ashdown in the House of Commons. A book of Palliser's collected works published by Editions du Regard in France came out in February 2005. Notable institutional and private collections include : The House Of Commons (London), United States Embassy (Paris), The Salzburg Seminar (Austria), The Senate ( Brussels), The Mona Bismark Foundation (Paris), The Telfair Museum (USA), Lady Annunciata Asquith, Francis Bacon, Princesse de Beauvau-Craon, Prince Laurent of Belgium, John Boorman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nick Cave, Annette Chaplin, Lord Chichester, Vicomte Etienne Davignon, Ines de la Fressange, Diane von Furstenberg, Thomas Gibson, Rosalind & Matthew Gorin, Graham Greene, Pamela Harriman, John Hurt, Jean-Michel Jarre, Sir Michael and Lady Jay, James Lord, Joanna Lumley, Sophie Marceau, Charlotte Rampling, Baron David de Rothschild, Baron Eric de Rothschild, Lady Soames, Catherine Spaak, Kevin Spacey, Duke and Duchess of Westminster, Countess of Westmorland, Bill & Denise Whelan.
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