ONE PAINTING / ONE PRINT - BY LUCY M WILES - POPULAR , RARE , COLLECTABLE - AUCTION FOR BOTH

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AWESOME PIECES BY WELL KNOWN AND VERY COLLECTABLE ARTIST LUCY M WILES ( DECEASED 2008 ).

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PAINTING : 454 X 149 MM FRAMED

LUCY MARY WILES ( NEE TOWNSEND)

BORN 1920 JOHANNESBURG

A PAINTER AND A GRAPHIC ARTISTOF LANDSCAPES , FIGURES , PORTRAITS AND STILL LIFE .

WORKS IN OIL , WATERCOLOUR AND IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC MEDIA .

STUDIES : BRIEFLY AT THE NATAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE , UNDER PROFESSOR CECIL TODD ( QV ) .

PROFILE : A FOUNDER OF THE QUEENSTOWN ART SOCIETY . ILLUSTRATED WINIFRED TAPSONS BOOK OLD TIMER AND BRIGADIER DAYS BRIGADIER TO BARMAN . PAINTS AND GLAZES TILES , AND MAKES XHOSA FIGURE FRIEZES , PRINTS AND CHRISTMAS CARDS . 1946 - 54 LIVED IN THE TRANSKEI , THEREAFTER KNYSNA , CAPE PROVINCE . SINCE 1972 SHE HAS TRAVELLED TO MADAGASCAR , MAURITIUS , THAILAND , HONG KONG , ITALY , GREECE , ISRAEL , THE UK , GERMANY AND INDIA . MARRIED TO BRIAN WILES ( QV ) . HER EARLIER WORKS ARE SIGNED LUCY MULLINS .

EXHIBITIONS : SHE HAS PARTICIPATED IN NUMEROUS GROUP EXHIBITIONS FROM 1959 IN SA AND ONCE IN LONDON , 1959 PIETER WENNING GALLERY , JOHANNESBURG , WILES GROUP EXHIBITION , 1961 PIETER WENNING GALLERY , JOHANNESBURG , FIRST OF TWO SOLO EXHIBITIONS HELD THERE , SHE HAS ALSO HELD NUMEROUS SOLO EXHIBITIONS AT THE GALLERY , LEISURE ISLE , KNYSNA .

REPRESENTED : QUEENSTOWN MUNICIPAL COLLECTION , WILLIAM HUMPRHEYS ART GALLERY , KIMBERLY .

REFERENCE : SA PANORAMA OCTOBER 1959

SOURCE : THE DICTIONARY OF SOUTH AFRICAN PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS .

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