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British Painting in the Sixties | Helmhaus Zurich

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Creator Thomas Wolsey
Printing year 1963
Sheet size (cm) 128.5×91.5
Printing technique Serigraph
Printer unknown
Condition A
Asking price 1'600 CHF
Categories Visual Arts

The Contemporary Art Society exhibition – initially on show at the Tate Gallery in London and the Whitechapel Art Gallery – also introduced the Swiss public to contemporary painting from Great Britain, including works by Michael James Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Gillian Ayres, Francis Bacon, Vanessa Bell, Peter Blake, Edward Burra, William Coldstream, William Crozier, …

Tom Wolsey, for his part, was art director of Town magazine in the early 1960s – a men’s magazine that is regarded as the father of all men’s style magazines today. A splendidly powerful poster, and nowhere else to be found.