02679nam a22003977a 4500 19634079 20230803080148.0 230803b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 2017381277 9781911408086 (paperback) (OCoLC)ocn984256747 YDX eng KMU rda KMU lccopycat e-uk-wl ND497.C398 W35 2017 Wakelin, Peter, author. Roger Cecil : a secret artist / Peter Wakelin. Secret artist Bristol : Sansom and Company, a publishing imprint of Redcliffe Press Ltd., 2017. ©2017 158 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. Roger Cecil (1942-2015) has been described as one of the great abstract artists of his generation, yet in his lifetime he was hardly known outside a circle of fellow painters. He was content to paint for himself, protecting his privacy and exhibiting rarely. If he did show his work, collectors rushed to acquire it. Among curators, he was a legendary figure. When his body was found after a police search in 2015, his death made headlines. At art college in the early 1960s he was a star of his generation, but he walked out on a scholarship to the Royal College of Art and returned to practise on his own in the South Wales mining village and terraced house where he grew up. He devoted himself to painting, living simply and working as a casual labourer, opencast miner and art tutor while producing work of extraordinary beauty and sophistication. After his parents' deaths the whole house became his studio. This book presents for the first time the extraordinary power and beauty of his work across his whole career. Comparisons can be drawn with great twentieth-century abstract artists, Dubuffet, de Staël and Tàpies, but Roger Cecil sought to be - and was - remarkably uninfluenced. The reputation of his mesmerising art can only grow as his legacy is revealed -- Source other than Library of Congress. Cecil, Roger Criticism and interpretation. Art, Abstract Wales. Painters Wales. Painting, Welsh 20th century. Cecil, Roger. Paintings. Selections. 7 cbc copycat 3 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 520 520 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC CPL CPL OA 2023-08-03 Book International Aid 0 ND 497.C397 Wak 300231 2023-08-03 00:00:00 2023-08-03 BK