Cooprider Family Collection
San Diego, California
Since 1966 Collectors of Contemporary Art & over 100 Diego Voci (1920-1985) oils, drawings, lithos, sculptures and more!
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Artist: Martin Bradley
The following biography is courtesy of Jenna Burlingham Fine Art, UK:
"British collectors such as Dame Barbara #Hepworth, Sir Roland Penrose and Sir Herbert Read acquired works by Enlgand's Martin Bradley, and when he went to Paris in the late 1950s he was taken up by Rudolphe #Augustinci, director of the Galerie Rive Gauche, who was notable for showing artists such as Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy and Rene Magritte. (Bradley is also in the 'Tate Museum Collection').
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Martin Bradley was born in London in 1931 and from childhood was intent on becoming an artist. As his guardian was against the idea, Bradley ran away to sea when he was fourteen. Whilst working in Central and South American he began painting portrait images of his shipmates before returning to London three years later. Back in London Bradley studied oriental languages, literature and art and developed a life long fascination with the art and calligraphy of China and Japan.
Bradley soon became acquainted with the unconventional circle of artists and writers known as the 'Angry Young Men' and was known as the 'Rimbaud of Soho' due to his hard-drinking lifestyle. Galleries such as Gimpel Fils and the Redfern Gallery began to exhibit his work and in 1956 he joined Gallery_One.
British collectors such as Sir Roland Penrose, Sir Herbert Read and Dame Barbara #Hepworth acquired works by Bradley, and when he went to Paris in the late 1950s he was taken up by Rudolphe Augustinci, director of the Galerie Rive Gauche, who was notable for showing artists such as Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy and Rene Magritte.
Augustinci promoted Bradley's work in Europe; and in London, Victor Musgrave continued to exhibit Bradley's paintings at Gallery One. Bradley's work from the 1950s and 1960s is primarily abstract, with strong calligraphic and symbolic influences.
Bradley lived for some years between Ibiza and Paris, and spent much of 1958 in Brazil on a scholarship. In 1961, after a personal crisis, Bradley served briefly in the Spanish Foreign Legion, before deserting and returning to London.
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