Thames at Kew

Colin Hayes (1919 - 2004)

Oil on board

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Bangladesh
    City: Dhaka
    Place: High Commission
  • About the artist
    Colin Hayes was born in 1919 in London and read Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford. Whilst at Oxford, Hayes also attended art classes at the Ruskin School of Drawing. At the outbreak of war in 1939, Hayes volunteered and served in the Royal Engineers. He was invalided out of the Army in 1945. Hayes's first major solo exhibition was at Marlborough Fine Arts in London. During the 1950s he was part of a group of tutors who transformed the Royal College of Art into a leading force in English art education. Among his many students were Bridget Riley, Peter Blake, R.B. Kitaj, David Hockney and Frank Auerbach. He retired in 1984 and remained an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College until his death in 2003.
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    Title
    Thames at Kew
    Date
    Medium
    Oil on board
    Dimensions
    height: 40.80 cm, width: 76.50 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Agnew, November 1953
    Inscription
    br: Hayes
    Provenance
    With Agnew’s Gallery, London; from whom purchased in November 1953
    GAC number
    2382