30th Jan, 2025 10:00

The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction

 
  Lot 52
 

* HUGH GERARD BYARS (SCOTTISH b. 1957)
PORTRAIT

oil on canvas, signed
unframed

overall size 70cm x 60cm

Note: Byars trained at The Glasgow School of Art and then at The Royal College of Art in London. In 2001 he received a major award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (USA). Nineteen examples of his work are recorded within notable public collections including City of London Corporation, The Peoples Palace (Glasgow), MOMA (Wales), The Fleming Collection (London), Guildhall Art Gallery, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries. Hugh lives and works in Glasgow. He is a contemporary of Howson and of the same school as Campbell and Currie, and like them concentrates on the human form, and scenes from his local city. He often takes his inspiration from the derelicts and dossers in his native Glasgow. These are his Partick people who he paints with sympathy, graphic simplicity and powerful humanity. Hugh is one of the ''New Glasgow Boys'' school of painters.

 

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Sold for £420
Estimated at £150 - £250


 
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