* CHARLES OAKLEY (1925 - 2008),
UNTITLED
mixed media trompe l'oeil hinged triptych of architectural form
21cm x 31cm (21cm x 15cm closed)
Mounted and framed (could be freestanding or hung)
Lot includes 1984 Pyms Gallery London exhibition catalogue of Charles Oakley's work.
Note: The Fine Art Society (London) staged a major exhibition "The Worlds of Charles Oakley" in February 2015. "Oakley was an artist of enormous originality whose work possesses imagination, beauty, charm and wit as well as insight into the nature of art and the human experience itself – a tall order in any circumstance. The imagined worlds he created within the contained spaces of his box pieces are sometimes deep ruminations on the tension between mankind’s ambition to explore and conquer and the potential for failure. Other pieces examine the meaning and methods of artists as diverse as de Chirico, Magritte, Winslow Homer and Uccello and through the mastery of his technique, common to all is the playing with perception, making us question the act of looking and understanding itself. Indeed Oakley is notable for the exacting techniques that he employed. Like theatre sets of the imagination, these scenarios create illusion and magic. The fastidious technique of his painting – minutely detailed, to render in miniature the famous masterpieces of Stubbs or Winslow Homer – is often combined with the complex perspectives of imaginary galleries or architectural settings."