Separate Worlds

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road

Michael Salaman was born in Porlock, Somerset and studied at Slade School of Art (1928–31) and Ruskin School of Art, Oxford (1930–31). He moved to France in 1933 where he studied at the Académie Ranson, Paris for a year. He remained in France with his family until 1939. During the Second World War he served in the Auxiliary Ambulance Service and worked for MI6 in Tunis and Algiers. He enjoyed a teaching career of nearly 30 years at Camberwell, Chelsea and the Royal Academy Schools of Art. A major retrospective of his work was held at the Morley Gallery, London (1975), and another after his death at the Ben Uri Art Gallery, London (1996). His work is represented in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the South London Gallery.

Places

Subjects

genre, townscape/cityscape, tree, dog, smoke, woman, girl, child, garden, factory, terraced house, house, shed, wall, chimney

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Michael Salaman (1911 - 1987)

Title

Separate Worlds

Date

1974

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 92.00 cm, width: 122.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Browse & Darby, February 1986

Inscription

br: M.Salaman 1974 verso on stretcher bar, tl: `Different Worlds' (Version I "The Red Wall")

GAC number

16469/C