'Sienese Landscape'

Oil on canvas, 31" x 38"

Julian Otto Trevelyan RA LS (1910-1988)

A painting and etcher of international reputation Trevelyan studied with SW Hayter in Atelier 17 in Paris during the 1930's and by 1936 he had become one of the English Surrealist Group. He taught at Chelsea School of Art and later at the Royal College of Art where he was a popular etching tutor. His work can be found in many public collections notably the Tate Gallery in London and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Trevelyan published his autobiography 'Indigo Days' in 1957. In 1951 he married Mary Fedden who continues to use off-cuts of his etchings in her work today. Some of the most successful of Trevelyan's landscapes resulted from his frequent trips to Tuscany in the 1950s. The arid area south of Siena presented a barren prospect where soil erosion had revealed rock outcrops in patterns that appealed to his sense of the Surreal.

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