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Michael O'Connell, sun bathing, paste resist painting on rayon, UK

Code: MA2220

Dimensions:

H: 210cm (82.7")W: 180cm (70.9")



provenance, artist's family

Michael O'Connell (1898 – 1976) was an English modernist artist who worked in Australia between World War I and World War II and then in England. He is best known as a textile artist with significant works held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of English Rural Life, the National Gallery of Australia etc... He was commissioned to produce a very large 56 meters long wall hanging for the Festival of Britain.

O'Connell focused on the wall hanging or 'painted tapestry' as a form of contemporary, democratic and transportable mural art where he used a mixture of lino blocks and freehand painting with paste resist.

ref. Edquist, Harriet (2011). Michael O'Connell: The Lost Modernist. Melbourne, Australia