THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Grey Composition
Oil on Canvas
92 x 115 cm
Painted 1955-1960
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist’s estate
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Grey and Ochre composition
Oil on Canvas
102 x 91.7 cm
Painted 1960
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist’s estate
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
The Land
Oil on board
120 x 120 cm
Painted 1959 Signed & titled lower right: ‘The Land. T Mendez 1959’
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist’s estate
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Black and White Still Life
Oil on canvas
76.5 x 64 cm
Painted 1959
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist’s estate
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Ochre & Blue composition
Oil, tissue & newspaper on board
153 x 123 cm
Painted 1964
Signed, dated & inscribed on reverse:
Theo Mendez 1964 (reworked 1987)
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Grey Composition
Oil on Canvas
115 x 92.2 cm
Painted 1955-1960
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Grey Composition
Oil on board
120 x 89.7 cm
Painted c.1959
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Reclining figure
Oil on Canvas
51.2 x 41 cm
Painted 1960
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Cream & Grey squares
Oil on board
51 x 63 cm
Painted c.1958
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Blue composition
Oil on canvas
39.5 x 25.7 cm
Painted 1961
Inscribed on reverse: MENDEZ Aug ’61
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Flowers in the mirror
Oil on board
120 x 120 cm
Painted c.1959
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Ochre & Red Still Life
Oil on canvas
153 x 123 cm
Painted c.1959
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Still Life
Oil on board
61 x 76.2 cm
Painted c.1960
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
White & Black composition
Oil on board
37.5 x 29.5 cm
Painted c.1959
EXHIBITIONS
City of Bradford, Corporation Art Gallery, no.638 (From label on reverse)
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Black & White composition
Oil on board
28 x 19.1 cm
Painted c.1959
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Red, Gold & Purple composition
Oil & paper on board
104.5 x 62.5 cm
Painted c.1960/61
Signed & inscribed on reverse:
Theo Mendez. circa 1960/61 @ 22 Bolton Studios, Gilston Road SW10
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Ochre & Blue composition
Oil & tissue on board
152 x 122.2 cm
Painted 1963
Signed & dated lower center: T Mendez Sept 1963
THEODORE MENDEZ
1934-1997
Paintings from the late 1950s & early 1960s
3-26 FEBRUARY 2010
Whitfield Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of early abstract paintings by 20th Century British artist Theo Mendez.
The exhibition is a critical reassessment of this talented artist’s early abstract work. During the 1950s he exhibited first at the Redfern Gallery in 1954; would later show his textile designs at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1956; and in the same year went on to win the Design Award at the Manchester Colour, Design & Style Centre. He studied first at Camberwell College of Arts in 1950, when the likes of Terry Frost, Howard Hodgkin, Euan Uglow, Bernard Dunstan and Gillian Ayres were all contemporaries.
Mendez returned to take up a teaching post at Camberwell in 1958, the same year as Frank Auerbach would start his time on the staff. They would be colleagues until 1965, when Auerbach left his post, and Mendez continued to teach full-time, later becoming Head of the Textile Department from 1976 until his retirement in 1984.
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