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Lot description
Rosalie de Meric, British 1916-1999- ''Woman and Clowns''; oil on canvas, 99x77cm, (may be subject to Droit de Suite) Literature: Julia Blackburn, ''The Three of Us: A Family Story'', 2009, illustrated Note: Rosalie de Meric first trained under Vorticist artist Claude Flight and later at Westminster School of Art under Mark Gertler and Bernard Meninsky. In 1945 she married the poet Thomas Blackburn and together they formed a close trio with Francis Bacon. De Meric was influenced by the savagery underlying Bacon's painting, as well as the work of Alan Davie, Harry Thubron and Terry Frost who she worked alongside in Leeds. De Meric exhibited extensively both in the UK and internationally, and between 1963 and 1977 lectured at Sir John Cass School of Art, London College of printing and Croydon College of Art. A copy of Julia Blackburn, ''The Three of Us: A Family Story'', 2009, accompanies the lot