Adam's The Oliver Dowling Collection 11th September 2024

33 44 DERRICK GREAVES (1927-2022) Rose Stem and Pot (1969) Oil on board, 144 x 95cm Signed, inscribed and dated verso € 1,000 - 1,500 Born in Sheffield in 1927, Greaves first trained as a sign writer. From 1948-52 he studied at the Royal Col- lege of Art and went on to teach part-time at St Martin’s School of Art in London and the Royal Academy Schools. During this time he won the John Moores Painting prize, and exhibited internation- ally. Greaves, a highly emi- nent figure in the Mod-Brit art scene, initially gained acclaim in the 1950s, when he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale along with the other ‘Kitchen-Sink’ painters: Bratby, Middle- ditch and Smith, his work swiftly developed into a more heraldic style that par- alleled 1960s Pop Art. Riccardo Licata was an Italian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in Turin in 1929. Between 1947 and 1955, he studied at the artistic high school and then at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Venice. In the 50s, together with Lucio Fontana, he was a very active member of the international artistic movement ‘Spatialism’. In 1961, he was appointed professor at the National School of Paris where he taught until 1995. His friendships with Max Ernst, Hans Hartung, Hayter, Goetz and others led to the organiza- tion of many joint exhibitions in Paris and Venice.