Ending 29th Dec, 2025 20:00
20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART SALE - BATH - TIMED (CLOSED)
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IAN FRASER RCA (1933-1986) - NO.8_8_85, 1985 - OIL ON CANVAS
Ian Fraser RCA (British, 1933-1986)
No.8_8_85, 1985
Oil on canvas
Signed to the lower right
Framed
Ian Fraser ARCA lived between 1933 and 1986. Public records about him are scarce for various reasons - he died before the internet was created, he didn’t exhibit regularly due to the pressure of work, and when he died, he left behind a grief-stricken family who lacked the energy, until recently, to promote his work. In 2016, his old art school, now part of the University of Middlesex, very kindly held a retrospective of Ian’s work. For a graduate from the Royal College of Art in the 1950s, the opportunities to earn a living as an artist were stark; Ian was married to Anna and, with burgeoning family responsibilities, started working full-time in what was then further education. For an artist at that time, pursuing a vocation was an exercise in opportunism, catching poetry in flight as it were. This was before the time that a studio practice could be considered essential academic research and enshrined as an aspect of teaching. Reflecting upon this, it is remarkable that artists of Ian’s generation were so very prolific; it is indicative of a quietly determined approach to practice that it became his means of reflecting upon the condition and flow of his life. This perhaps accounts for the sheer range of his work, predicated upon the skill and lyrical insight fostered as an artist and educator.
Since 2016, the family has managed to have a couple of shows in Bath and also one at the Centrespace Gallery in Bristol, to coincide with International Holocaust Memorial Day. During the 2019 Spring Pop-up show, Ian's family hoped to bring his work to a wider audience and also back to the city where he taught and crea
Measures approx. 71cm x 86cm including frame.
From the artist's family.
Sold for £280
Auction: 20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART SALE - BATH - TIMED (CLOSED), ending 29th Dec, 2025
Welcome to our Winter 20th Century & Contemporary Art auction bringing you a wide selection of pieces from various artists, including the likes of Banksy, with the incredible opportunity to acquire one of only four signed T-shirts given to 'The Colston Four' as well as the actual rope used to topple the Edward Colston statue, alongside works by Ian Fraser, Johnny Friedlaender, Dieter Roth, Vanessa Gardiner, David Hockney, Neil Pinkett, David Cobley, June Miles, and many more.
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