John Bellany
Helen
About this artwork
Bellany was born in Port Seton, near Edinburgh. In the early 1960s he studied at Edinburgh College of Art, where he met his future wife Helen Percy. They married, then divorced in 1977 and then remarried ten years later when he was seriously ill. A liver transplant in 1988 gave him a second life. This portrait of Helen was painted soon after his recovery.
Published November 2021
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artist:John Bellany (1942 - 2013) Scottish
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title:Helen
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date created:About 1989
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materials:Watercolour on paper
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measurements:76.50 x 57.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by Charlie Nairn, 2018
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accession number:GMA 5616
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John Bellany
John Bellany
Bellany was born in the fishing village of Port Seton, near Edinburgh. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art and at the Royal College of Art, London. His work of the 1960s and 1970s dealt with original sin, guilt, sex and death. His characteristic paintings are large compositions featuring his own...
