Susan Paine 20th Century Mixed Media Ancient Egyptian Lovers
Corsham, United Kingdom
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Item details
Height
69.0 cm
Width
50.5 cm
Wear conditions
Good
Wear conditions
Excellent
Shows little to no signs of wear and tear.
Good
May show slight traces of use in keeping with age. Most vintage and antique items fit into this condition.
Average
Likely to show signs of some light scratching and ageing but still remains in a fair condition.
Apparent Wear and Tear
Visible signs of previous use including scratches, chips or stains.
Please refer to condition report, images or make a seller enquiry for additional information.
Description
A surreal and vivid mixed media piece using collage, pastel and watercolour. The piece shows a couple resembling ancient Egyptian royalty, embracing. The character of Cleopatra is a recurring one in Paine's work, making this a very characteristic piece of the artist's portfolio. The artwork is unsigned on heavy wove that has been blind stamped at the reverse. On blind stamped heavy wove.
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Artist Biography
Susan Emily Challoner was born in Manchester in 1928. In 1951 she married Cyril John Paine. By the 1960s John and Susan had become one of the ‘It Couples’ of bohemian Soho; beautiful, exciting, and unconventional.
They moved in artistic, musical and drinking circles and had huge parties in their Paddington flat until well into their eighties, with live jazz and a cadre of fellow Bohemians – actors, musicians and artists. John frequented the French Pub in Soho and the Colony Room, an out of hours Soho drinking club, where he propped up the bar with iconic artists including Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Other close friends included Susan’s best friend Jean Muir, the fashion designer, and the Indian painter FN Souza.
Susan often worked by creating a collage and developing it into different versions, experimenting with different secondary media. Susan tended to build up planes of colour, often over painting previous versions before eventually arriving at a harmonious whole. Recurring themes include dancing, sexual power games, tree huggers and the Thalidomide tragedy. Favourite characters include Antony and Cleopatra, Achilles, Madame Butterfly, Carmen and Emma Bovary. Susan’s choice of couples and particularly women, reflect her interest in power imbalances and victimhood. Some of her larger more complex works seem autobiographical, sometimes reflecting her progression from one state to another. Susan sometimes used dance as a visual portrayal of sexual energy throughout history, and her work includes depictions of dance from many cultures – Spanish flamenco, Indian and Russian folk dancing, Japanese ritual dancing, resulting from her long-standing interest in representing kinetic energy.
In later life Susan obtained the formal education she felt she had missed, attending several art courses including a two-year course at the City Lit from which she graduated with a group exhibition in 2000. More impressive still, Susan enrolled at the Open University, and in 2002, aged 74, proudly graduated with a degree in History of Art. Susan’s last solo exhibition was at the Book Club in Soho in 2013, and included Dancing Lessons, one of several paintings exhibited at RA Summer Exhibitions.
John died in February 2018. By then Susan had sadly become almost totally blind, and she was suffering from advanced Alzheimer's. After John’s death she could no longer manage in the flat, so reluctantly agreed to be moved to a Care Home in north London. Eight of her favourite pictures – including Dancing Lessons – are in her room there.
Condition report:
Some dirtying across the surface. The paper is finished with a deckle edge.
Additional dimensions information:
69 x 50.5cm (27.2" x 19.9") Sheet: 77 x 56.6cm (30.3" x 22.3")
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- 181 sales
- Ships from Corsham, United Kingdom
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