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RODNEY GLADWELL  Great Britain  1928 - 1979  "Patterns of Love"

Rodney Gladwell (1928–1979) was a British artist born in Didcot, Berkshire, whose paintings hover between abstraction and figuration and play on this ambiguity. Between 1949/50 he followed in the footsteps of Amedeo Modigliani, one of the greatest figurative painters of the 20th Century, and studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi. His work varied but a continual theme was his heavily stylised female nudes. He exhibited in London and Paris with the Piccadilly Gallery, before being taken on by the gallery owner Lucy Wertheim and towards the end of his career the noted Swiss dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt. In the 1960s Gladwell's work was held by The Arts Council of Great Britain and University of Johannesburg. Selected to be in the company of Henry Moore, Terry Frost, Francis Bacon, Victor Pasmore, David Hockney and Graham Sutherland in the Hamburg exhibition of 1968, Gladwell was an artist whose short life sadly ended the career of a highly original and skilled artist.

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