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Andrew Murray, né en 1955
[ Books ] SMITH, EDWIN W. & DALE, ANDREW MURRAY The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia (2 volumes) London: Macmillan, 1920 first edition illustrations, map, many pages uncut, some edges frittered, some pages marked 8vo cloth, spines gilt, covers water- stained and a little rubbed, endpapers time-stained, bindings a little shaken (2)
Andrew Murray (South African, 1917-1998), Chelsea Houseboats, 1975, oil on canvas, signed lower right, Portal Gallery, London label with artist, title and date en verso, 20 in. x 23 1/2 in., framed
Andrew Murray (South African, 1917-1998), Lion and Lamb, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 23 in. x 29 in., framed. Note: Andrew Murray worked as a journalist in South Africa until a friend, the artist Frank Hiley, gave him a gift of paints and brushes on his fortieth birthday. This gift reawakened Murray's childhood love of painting, and he began devoting most of his time to art-making and exhibiting in Cape Town. Moving to England in 1969, to escape the heated atmosphere of Apartheid, Murray was a practitioner of Jungian psychology and utilized free imaginative association in his search for meditative art. Never being formally trained in art he was given the moniker of Naïve Artist, which the artist hated. ?It conjures up the image of country bumpkin,? he said, Murray?s preferred term was a Modern Primitive Artist. ?Lion and Lamb,? offered here, combines two of his most often used subjects: jungles and Biblical imagery. This painting was from the ?Images of Reconciliation? series of paintings he began for his first gallery, The Portal Gallery, show in London in 1971. The show was such a success he was commissioned to continue the series for a second show at the Coventry Cathedral. ?Lion and Lamb? was a center piece of the second show and was chosen by UNICEF to be made into a greeting card for 1973 that was sold to raise money for relief, health and educational work for children in need throughout the world. The UNICEF card allowed the theme of the humane that runs all through Murray?s work to move from an artistic concept to a world reality. Ref.: Murray, Robert. ?Culture Obituary: Andrew Murray?. The Independent. Oct. 16, 2018. www.independent.co.uk. Accessed Aug. 14, 2018.
