Reginald Gray

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Self-Portrait (2009)

Reginald Gray (born 1930 in Dublin , Ireland , † March 29, 2013 in Paris ) was an Irish portrait painter .

Life

Juliet Man Ray and Reginald Gray

After studying from 1953 at the National College of Art in Dublin and with Cecil ffrench Salkeld at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Gray worked as a set designer for the Pike and Gate Theaters in Dublin and the Lyric Theater in London. He moved to London in 1957 and joined the School of London in the late 1950s and early 1960s, directed by Francis Bacon , Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach .

In 1960, Gray created a portrait of Bacon, which is part of the collection at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Other portraits of writers, musicians and artists such as Samuel Beckett , Brendan Behan , Jacques Brel , Juliette Binoche , Bernard Buffet , Rupert Everett , Alberto Giacometti , Yves Saint Laurent , Jean-Paul Sartre and Harold Pinter followed .

Gray's first solo exhibition was at the Abbott & Holder Gallery in London in 1960. From 1962 to 1964 he stayed in Rouen and then moved to Paris, where he lived and worked until his death. In 1993 UNESCO showed a retrospective of his work in Paris .

In February 2002, Gray was elected an official member of the American Society of Portrait Painters, and in 2006 his portrait, La Blouse Blanche, won the Sandro Botticelli Prize in Florence .

Museums

Portraits of Gray are permanent in the National Portrait Gallery in London, the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, the Museum of London , The Bankfield Museum in York, Great Britain and The Church of The Holy Cross, St. Pancras in the London Borough of Camden in London.

  • gallery

  • Stage decoration for Duet for Two Hands by Mary Hayley Bell, Dublin 1956

  • Portrait from life of Francis Bacon , 1960, National Portrait Gallery, London

  • Portrait from life of Samuel Beckett , 1961

  • Portrait of Alfred Schnittke , 1972

  • Portrait of Laurent Terzieff , 1981

  • Portrait of Doina , 2001

  • Homage to Ted Hughes 2004

  • La Blouse Blanche (Sandro Botticelli Prize, Florence, 2006)

Web links

Commons : Reginald Gray  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Irish Times : Irish artist Reginald Gray dies in Paris , March 30, 2013
  2. ↑ Quoted from artchive.com
  3. ^ Reginald Gray in the National Portrait Gallery
  4. ^ Reginald Gray , artistescontemporains.org, accessed March 15, 2012
  5. ↑ Reginald Gray , askart.com, accessed 16 March 2012
  6. ↑ Reginald Gray , artchive.com, accessed 15 March 2012
  7. ↑ La Blouse Blanche , armajeur. com, accessed March 15, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Gray, Reginald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2013
Place of death Paris