13th May, 2021 11:00

Northern Art - Live Online

 
  Lot 11
 

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§ Alan Salisbury (20th/21st century)
"Commedia del Goalie: Melancholicus" with Reference to work by Jacob de Gheyn dated 1596

Initialled and dated 2006, titled on exhibition label - 'The Royal Cambrian Academy' verso, oil on board.

Dimensions: 32.5cm x 23.5cm (12.75in x 9.25in)

* Alan Salisbury was born in Preston, Lancashire and studied painting at Manchester and Liverpool Colleges of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. He has lived in Wales since 1974 working at the University of Glamorgan where he was Principal Lecturer in Painting and Field Leader in Arts and Media. He has now left to concentrate on his own artistic practice although he maintains contact with the University as an External Fellow. He has exhibited widely throughout the UK, in Europe and the USA. In 2005 he was awarded Joint First Prize in the Liverpool School of Art Alumni Open Competition. In 2008 he was awarded First Prize in the Wales Portrait Award 2 Competition.

Creating a group of paintings that share a conceptual theme occurs often in Alan’s work. This can be exemplified in his two series of works called ‘Commedia del Goalie’ and ‘The Art of the Goalkeeper’. These series explore two major obsessions, football and painting. An interest in the religious painting of the 15th century is used as a metaphor to examine the role of the solitary goalkeeper as the last defender required to save the team and also as the individual most likely to be vilified.

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Sold for £130


 

Auction: Northern Art - Live Online, 13th May, 2021

This exciting sale is full of some of the best examples of work by Northern Artists we have had the privilege to sell in many years.  These include fabulous private collections of works by Trevor Grimshaw and Theodore Major which have never been seen before on the open market.  Other stars of the sale include works by Geoffrey Key, Fred Yates, David Barnes, Donald McIntyre, William Turner, Don McKinlay, John Thompson, Roger Hampson, Geoffrey Birks, L.S. Lowry and many others.

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