26th Aug, 2020 14:00
The British & International Pictures Auction
ABSTRACT, AN OIL BY CHARLES PULSFORD
* CHARLES PULSFORD ARSA (SCOTTISH 1913 - 1989),
UNTITLED ABSTRACT
oil on board, signed with initials
49cm x 75cm
Framed and under glass.
Note: Charles Pulsford was born in Staffordshire to Scottish parents who settled in Dunfermline when he was a child. He attended Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) from 1933-7. Following the end of the Second World War, a number of Scottish artists turned their backs on traditional painting styles and instead embraced modernism and abstraction. Alan Davie, William Turnbull, William Gear and Eduardo Paolozzi are recognised as the key artists of this group, but Pulsford, whose work is less well-known, may be regarded as ‘the fifth man’. He taught at ECA from 1952-60 and latterly at Canterbury College of Art. His paintings are in the collections of The Royal Scottish Academy and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
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