P A U L  F E I L E R

b.1918

Untitled abstract

Mixed media on conté and coloured crayons

33 x 39.4cm

Signed and dated: Paul Feiler 1963

PROVENANCE:

Austin/Desomond Fine Art

Feiler was born 1918, in Frankfurt am Main. He came to England in 1933 and studied from 1936 to 1939 at the Slade School. Interned in Canada at the outbreak of the Second World War, Feiler returned to Britain in 1941 to begin his career as an artist. Originally associated with the post-war Modernists in St Ives, by 1953, Feiler had moved permanently to Cornwall where he still resides. Inspired by the Cornish light and landscape, his painting during this and the following decade became influenced by Abstract Expressionism. However, his abstraction has consistently drawn on external sources, using light, tone and space to render an environment in pictorial terms.

In 2005 he was the subject of an important exhibition at Tate, St. Ives.

PRICE £7,500