School of London
A group of London-based figurative painters of the second half of the twentieth century including Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach.
Biography
Born
1928
Died
1995
Nationality
English
Birth place
Norwich
Death place
London
The British artist Michael Andrews is linked with the 'School of London' artists (Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Auerbach and Kitaj), although he lived for many years in the Norfolk countryside. A slow, fastidious painter, he is well known for painting ambitious figure compositions. Andrews first visited Scotland in 1975 and returned regularly thereafter, making a series of paintings on the theme of deerstalking. In the mid-1980s his work took a change of direction, and he produced a series of large landscapes featuring Ayers Rock in Australia.
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