Naked Lunch Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch Naked Lunch
About David Remfry RA

David Remfry studied at Hull College of Art from 1959 to 1964. Remfry had his first solo show in London in 1973 and has since had more than 50 international solo exhibitions. His first show in the United States was at the Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles in 1980. He has exhibited regularly since then at galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Florida and in 2002 had a solo exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, Museum of Modern Art affiliate, which was curated by Alanna Heiss and Daniel Marzona. Solo museum shows in England include the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, (1975 and 2005) Middlesbrough Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has exhibited many times at galleries in Holland and Germany.

An international touring retrospective of his DANCERS paintings opened in 2002 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida and at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH in March 2004. The exhibition toured to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England in May 2005 and the Ferens Art Gallery in November 2005. An extensive catalogue of the DANCERS series has been published by the Boca Raton Museum of Art to coincide with its tour and includes essays by Dore Ashton, Edward Lucie-Smith and Carter Ratcliff and an interview with Alanna Heiss. Remfry lives and works in London and New York.

Naked Lunch

£14,750

In thirty years, we’ve not owned or exhibited a David Remfry painting and this is the second we’ve bought in twelve months. His work will be very familiar to those regular visitors to the annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, as an elected Academician he can submit up to six works, confident that they will be hung (at least somewhere). His large, loose, figurative watercolours of dancers are instantly recognisable and have an international following. He was the Eranda Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy Schools from 2016 to 2018 and is represented in public collections worldwide. The National Portrait Gallery, London commissioned him to paint Sir John Geilgud and acquired his portrait of Jean Muir.

Probably the most important – by conventional standards – painter in the catalogue, David Remfry is one of the most painterly of the current crop of Royal Academicians. This canvas dates from the 1980s and from a series of works that really brought him to international attention. I love the cheekiness of the nude, by no means provocative or distasteful just mischievous.

About David Remfry RA

David Remfry studied at Hull College of Art from 1959 to 1964. Remfry had his first solo show in London in 1973 and has since had more than 50 international solo exhibitions. His first show in the United States was at the Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles in 1980. He has exhibited regularly since then at galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Florida and in 2002 had a solo exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, Museum of Modern Art affiliate, which was curated by Alanna Heiss and Daniel Marzona. Solo museum shows in England include the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, (1975 and 2005) Middlesbrough Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has exhibited many times at galleries in Holland and Germany.

An international touring retrospective of his DANCERS paintings opened in 2002 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida and at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH in March 2004. The exhibition toured to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England in May 2005 and the Ferens Art Gallery in November 2005. An extensive catalogue of the DANCERS series has been published by the Boca Raton Museum of Art to coincide with its tour and includes essays by Dore Ashton, Edward Lucie-Smith and Carter Ratcliff and an interview with Alanna Heiss. Remfry lives and works in London and New York.