French Landscape No.2

Location

Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy

Fry has been described as ‘a poet of colour’. This dreamlike abstract French landscape features earthy colours and gestural brushstrokes that possibly depict craggy forms and verdant foliage. Though based on real places and actual experiences and sights, Fry’s paintings were evocations made from memory. 

Critic John Berger said:

Fry’s pictures – like all good visual art – defy words. With words we cannot get nearer to them than a map can get to a landscape. We can enter them only with our eyes. Once within them, the eyes may tell the skin something. Once within, the eyes may see even with the eyelids shut.”

Places

France

Subjects

abstract, landscape C20th

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Anthony Fry (1927 - 2016)

Title

French Landscape No.2

Date

1965

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 102.50 cm, width: 152.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the New Art Centre, April 1966

Inscription

none

GAC number

7370