Dover from the Cliffs

John Sergeant

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PLEASE CONTACT SELLER FOR SHIPPING/POSTAGE QUOTES - - - JOHN SERGEANT (1937-2010) Dover from the Cliffs Watercolour and pen and ink Unframed 27 by 38 cm., 10 ¾ by 15 in. (mount size 44 by 53 cm., 17 ¼ by 20 ¾ in.) Sergeant was born in London, the son of a civil servant. His family soon moved to Faversham in Kent after they were bombed during World War II. He studied at Canterbury College of Art from 1954-57, during which period he met John Ward, who was to become a lifelong friend and supporter. In 1959 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, where he won a Drawing Prize in 1961. In 1962 he married a fellow student, Carolyn Cann. After graduating from the RA he taught part-time at art schools in Kent and worked on commissions including book jacket designs and illustrations and series of room-portraits of interiors. He moved to near Builth Wells, Wales in 1983. In 1989 the Prince of Wales asked Sergeant to contribute drawings to his book Vision of Britain; two years later he accompanied the prince on an official visit to Prague. A superb draughtsman, he was a great exponent of the teaching of drawing in art school: If you can draw you can paint. All you need to know as Whistler used to say, is which end of the brush to put in your mouth . In his 2006 Colnaghi exhibition he described himself as a serious serial draughtsman who explores, scrutinizes the same subject back, front, sideways, this way and that. It is all part of trying to understand . He held one-man exhibitions in London at the Maas Gallery, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox and Colnaghi. Seller Inventory # ABE-1549017850322

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Title: Dover from the Cliffs

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Good