Battersea Park Herons

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand

Painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling CBE was born in Suffolk. She studied at Ipswich School of Art (1962-4), Camberwell (1964-7), and the Slade School of Art graduating in 1969. In 1969 she also received a Boise Travel Award to New York. She made a series of celebrated portraits of British comedian Max Wall while Artist-in-Residence at the National Gallery, London (1980-81). In the mid 1980s she made many dramatic landscapes of her native Suffolk. Her best known if controversial public works are a memorial to Oscar Wilde in central London and Scallop, a 4 metre high steel sculpture of two interlocking scallop shells on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten. In 1995 she was awarded the Jerwood Painting Prize (with Patrick Caulfield).

Places

Subjects

topography, heron, lake, park

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Maggi Hambling (1945 - )

Title

Battersea Park Herons

Date

1986-1987

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 150.00 cm, width: 81.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Sotheby's, 2 October 1996

Inscription

verso: HAMBLING / '86-'87

Provenance

Sold through Sotheby's, London, 'Modern British and Irish Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture' sale, on 2 October 1996 (Lot 274); from which sale purchased by the Government Art Collection

GAC number

17013