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Leominster, Herefordshire
‡The following three lots are sold on the instructions

of Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology





ROBERT MEDLEY, CBE. RA. (1905-1994)

Red Street Scene with Figures

oil on canvas

30 1/2 x 40 1/4 in (77.4 x 102.3cm)



Exhibited:

Robert Medley Retrospective Exhibition, paintings, drawings and sculpture 1928-1963. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London November-December 1963, no 6



'Red Street Scene' is mentioned in the Whitechapel exhibition catalogue - "1938. Painted Red Street Scene, a more social-realist picture with expressionist-caricature elements of distortion and 'artificial' invented colour" and (he) "began to feel the need to eliminate elements of fantasy from his work. Medley feared sentimentality and started to mistrust surrealist fantasy"



'Robert Medley Exhibition' 1984 no.10. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.



The frame bears a 'Contemporary Art Society. Art Exhibitions Bureau, London'

label on the reverse.



For a smaller study for the painting in this auction.cf Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions, Oct 2014. lot 342





Medley included in the 39th Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London. Oct-Nov 1937 , ,no.38 a painting titled 'Men, Women and Children talking and Playing'. 50 gns.He was however also working on a number of other paintings at this time. In the same year 1937, Medley exhibited six pictures including 'Tenement Buildings' and 'Jokers' at Agnews

Robert Medley studied at the Byam Shaw and RA Schools, London in the early nineteen twenties, and later in Paris from 1926-1928. In the period 1929-1934 he worked with both Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. He showed with the London Group from 1929 becoming a Member in 1937. As art Director of the Group Theatre 1935-1939 he designed the settings and costumes for a number of Productions. In 1938 he won the commission to paint the safety curtain for the Old Vic , and from about the same time he was working on another street scene known as the 'Butcher's Shop'.
‡The following three lots are sold on the instructions

of Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology





ROBERT MEDLEY, CBE. RA. (1905-1994)

Red Street Scene with Figures

oil on canvas

30 1/2 x 40 1/4 in (77.4 x 102.3cm)



Exhibited:

Robert Medley Retrospective Exhibition, paintings, drawings and sculpture 1928-1963. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London November-December 1963, no 6



'Red Street Scene' is mentioned in the Whitechapel exhibition catalogue - "1938. Painted Red Street Scene, a more social-realist picture with expressionist-caricature elements of distortion and 'artificial' invented colour" and (he) "began to feel the need to eliminate elements of fantasy from his work. Medley feared sentimentality and started to mistrust surrealist fantasy"



'Robert Medley Exhibition' 1984 no.10. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.



The frame bears a 'Contemporary Art Society. Art Exhibitions Bureau, London'

label on the reverse.



For a smaller study for the painting in this auction.cf Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions, Oct 2014. lot 342





Medley included in the 39th Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London. Oct-Nov 1937 , ,no.38 a painting titled 'Men, Women and Children talking and Playing'. 50 gns.He was however also working on a number of other paintings at this time. In the same year 1937, Medley exhibited six pictures including 'Tenement Buildings' and 'Jokers' at Agnews

Robert Medley studied at the Byam Shaw and RA Schools, London in the early nineteen twenties, and later in Paris from 1926-1928. In the period 1929-1934 he worked with both Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. He showed with the London Group from 1929 becoming a Member in 1937. As art Director of the Group Theatre 1935-1939 he designed the settings and costumes for a number of Productions. In 1938 he won the commission to paint the safety curtain for the Old Vic , and from about the same time he was working on another street scene known as the 'Butcher's Shop'.

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