Harvey Daniels Catalogue 2017

Harvey Daniels goldmark 2017

photo: Alan Young, 1992

‘

Because the structure of the work is so important

to me, the colour is secondary. Critics, however, often

write about my particular use of colour, but also about the musicality of my work. Music is important to my

work—not just in the listening, but in the attempt to make work that is musical in itself. By this I don’t mean descriptive or schematic and certainly not as a response, but as an equivalent. The brightness of a viridian against a black or the structure that uses a circle or a row of dots is just as much part of the musicality as is the vibrancy of the overall colour.

’

Harvey Daniels Harvey Daniels is, above all, an artist of joy. His intensely bright, dynamic, musical arrangements of geometric shapes and shades revel in the balance of opposites: light and dark; harmony and dissonance; chaos and calm.

Born in London in 1936, Daniels began his artistic career as a painter of people and still lifes inspired by the British artist Walter Sickert before discovering the cut-out collages of Matisse. A student of the Slade in the mid-1950s, he applied his intuitive understanding of graphic media to become the Principal Lecturer on printmaking at Brighton College of Art for nineteen years, eventually leaving to teach elsewhere throughout the UK, Norway, Greece, Australia and the US as a visiting professor.

With works held in major public and private collections across the world, Daniels’ reputation has grown exponentially in recent years. His vibrant paintings, be they in acrylic, gouache, or sonorous watercolour, juxtapose dancing forms and colours with a merry abandon that recalls the choreography of Delaunay’s Orphism, Miró’s unpredictable Abstract Surrealism, and the rhythmic arrangement of Klee and Kandinsky.

From every luminescent yellow to their midnight blues, Daniels’ paintings reaffirm the strength of optimistic art in a world frequently devoid of colour and mirth. My work is primarily celebratory, he has stated: a fact itself worth celebrating.

1936 - 2013

These works were acquired from a notable Daniels collection.

Several were illustrated in the catalogue of a major 1997 exhibition. *Paintings from the exhibition are marked with an asterisk.

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opposite:

Tree, £5000* acrylic on unstretched canvas, 1993, signed, 91.5 x 48.5 cm

Play Me, £3500* 2

gouache, 1987, signed, 107 x 38 cm

3

Lime to Orange II, £4500* acrylic, 1991, signed verso, 61 x 40.5 cm,

5

Direction, ÂŁ6000* 6

watercolour, 2003, signed, 66.5 x 100 cm

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Untitled (Lambs), £6000 acrylic, 101.5 x 50 cm

10

Sweet, £1450

Wise Fish, £1450

watercolour, 2003, signed, 56.5 x 19 cm

watercolour, 2003, signed, 56.5 x 19 cm

Sweet, Wise Fish & Magic special price: all three for ÂŁ3000

Magic, ÂŁ1450 watercolour, 2003, signed, 56.5 x 19 cm

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Celebrate, ÂŁ600 12

screenprint, 1987, ed 46, signed, 56 x 76 cm

Biography 1936

Born, London

1951-56

Willesden School of Art, NDD

1956-58

London University, Slade, DipFA (London)

1958-59

Brighton College of Art (now University of Brighton) ATD

1963-89

Lecturer, Brighton College of Art, Brighton Polytechnic

1967

Marriage to artist Judy Stapleton

1970

Birth of daughter Zoe

1972

Birth of daughter Prudence

1989

Studios in Brighton and La Rochelle, France

2001

Moved French studio to LĂŠzan, France

2013

Died, France

Works in Public Collections include Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York

The Aldrich Collection, University of Brighton

Metropolitan Museum, New York

British Council Collection, London

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead

London University, Extra-Mural Dept, London

South London Art Gallery, London

Hove Museum of Art, Hove, Sussex

Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, USA

Trinity College, Oxford

Cumberland House Museum, Southsea, Hampshire

Hertfordshire County Council, Hertfordshire

Free Library of Philadelphia, USA

Redbridge Art Centre, Redbridge, Essex

Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, USA

Bergens Kunstforening, Norway

Flint Museum, Michigan, USA

City Art Gallery, Leeds

Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University, Ohio, USA

Tower Art Gallery, Eastbourne

Wright State University, Ohio, USA

University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton

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Marc's Dogs, ÂŁ550 lithograph, 1975, ed 25, signed, 68 x 48 cm

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