LARGE ABSTRACT PAINTING BY KAY FAITHFUL (1930-1999)
We have been lucky enough to have sourced 70 paintings from the artist’s collection.
This piece is a large unframed abstract painting. Oil on canvas. Signed bottom left.
The verso shows her name; address; title of the painting as ‘Echoes XXI’ and its date as 1989 to 90.
We have two others from the Echoes series listed.
Late 20th Century.
Good condition.
Approximate dimensions: W:83cm H:112cm D:2cm
Great wall space filler for the home; retail environment and ideal for an interior design project particulary with the vast number of these large paintings we have by the artist Kay Faithful.
Background:
Painter, born in Greenock, Renfrewshire, who after a traumatic World War II trained as a nurse and midwife, then married Will Faithful, a Cornish civil engineer. They lived in Bermuda, the Middle East, Cyprus and Jamaica before moving to Canberra, Australia, in 1972, where she was able to concentrate on painting. In 1987, she held her first major exhibition of 30 large works, The Barrier Reef Series, at Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney, followed by others at the Eltham and Rathdowne Street Galleries, Melbourne. In 1991 Faithful visited the United Kingdom and the continent for her first overseas exhibitions. Australian Landscapes – Visual Reflections, 29 paintings, was shown in Glasgow, Greenock and at the Australian Embassy, Paris.