Sale of Part of the Studio Collection of
Patricia Algar (1939-2013)
Daniel Goddard, Head of the Pictures Department, recounts the life of the late St Ives
based artist Patricia Algar (1939-2013) ahead of the sale of part of her studio
collection on 27th May 2015, which includes works covering her entire
career.
One of a number of pictures from the Studio Collection of the late St Ives artist
Patricia Algar (1939-2013). Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood will be selling some
of her Studio Collection work on 27th May 2015.
Patricia Algar (1939-2013)
studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal Academy in the 1960s. She was regarded
as one of the most promising students of her generation. She married and moved to
West Cornwall in 1964 where she lived and worked for the rest of her life. Her married
name was Patricia May Carr, which reverted to Algar when she divorced in the 1970s.
She moved to St Ives after an initial period in Nancledra and spent her last 20
years or so in Marazion.
Algar painted continually throughout this time and her work is represented in numerous
private collections throughout the United Kingdom as well as the public collections
at Penlee House and Museum in Penzance and the Falmouth Art Gallery. She also spent
short periods working in America in the late 1980s, where she exhibited and sold
to private collectors.
She admired and was influenced by Matisse, Bonnard, Vuillard and Sickert among others
and had an interest in an eclectic and wide range of Classical and Renaissance art.
When she died in 2013, there were some 300 works in her studio, including well over
200 paintings, together with numerous drawings, sketchbooks and prints covering
the entire range of her career from student days to the months before her death.
This work is being catalogued and a selection is included in the
Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood auction on Wednesday, 27th May 2015
with estimates ranging from £30 to £150.
Some of the work in the Studio Collection of the late St Ives artist Patricia Algar
(1939-2013).
- Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
- Patricia Algar (1939-2013)
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