H A N S  T I S D A L L

British, 1910-1997

Abstract of  a sail boat with fish and chair

Oil on canvas

71 x 91.5 cm (27 15/16 x 36 in).

Signed 'Tisdall' (lower right)

EXHIBITIONS:

City of Bradford Art Gallery (label on verso)

Tisdall took up a career as a full-time painter with a studio in Fitzroy Street, next door to Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. He liked the latter more than the former, but, as Bryan Robertson explains in the catalogue to Tisdall's 1990 exhibition at the Albemarle Gallery, "he managed to escape contagion from the Bloomsbury artists".

In 1947 he joined the staff of the Central School along with Eduardo Paolozzi. For the German emigre architect Michael Rachlis, with the artists Edward Bawden and John Armstrong, he painted decorations for the International Building Club in Park Lane shortly before the Second World War and a number of commissions for the architect Oliver Hill, including the strongly coloured illustrations of Hill's children's books Balbus (1944) and Wheels (1946). The cover of the last issue of the short-lived magazine Night and Day, 23 December 1937, edited by John Marks and Graham Greene, was Tisdall's work.

He had his first solo show in London at Leger Galleries in 1945, others following in England, France and Germany, including latterly at the Albemarle Gallery, 1990.

SOLD