George Owen Wynne Apperley
George Owen Wynne Apperley | |
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 Self-portrait (1915) | |
| Born | 17 June 1884 Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England |
| Died | 10 September 1960 (aged 76) Tangier, Morocco |
| Known for | Paintings |
| Movement | Romanticism |
George Owen Wynne Apperley (1884-1960) was a British painter. Described as “one of the finest” of the late Romantic artists, he worked mainly in Spain and in North Africa.
Life
[edit]Apperley was born at Ventnor, on the Isle of Wight, in 1884.[1][2] He trained briefly at the Herkomer School in Bushey, Hertfordshire, but was mostly self-taught.[3] He moved to Spain in 1917,[4] abandoning his British wife, Hilda Pope, and family,[5] and established himself in a carmen in the Albaicín district of Granada.[6] He became friends with many of the artists resident in the city,[a] but was forced to leave in 1932 when his conservative political stance regarding the Second Spanish Republic led to the bombing of his house.[7] He moved with his second family, his muse and later wife, Enriqueta Contreras and their two sons, to Tangier, Morocco, where he died in 1960.[8] He is commemorated in Granada by a statue, unveiled in 2011.[9]
Works
[edit]Apperley first worked on Classical and mythological subjects. His moves to Spain, and subsequently Morocco, saw his focus shift to portraiture.[10] Examples of his work are held by the Victoria & Albert Museum,[b] the Museo de Málaga, the Lady Lever Art Gallery and the Bushey Museum.[12]
Gallery
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Horses of St Mark, Venice (1905) -
Joven bailando (c.1920) -
Eternal Idol - Apperley's muse, lover, and second wife, Enriqueta Contreras (1931) -
Carmen Apperley, the painter’s Albaicin home -
Statue commemorating Apperley in Granada (2011)
Notes
[edit]- ^ One of Apperley’s acquaintances was Federico García Lorca, who named a pastry of which Apperley was particularly fond “Apperlies”.[7]
- ^ The V&A holds Apperley’s La Cordobesa, a watercolour dating from 1923.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "George Owen Wynne Apperley". Spanish Royal Academy of History. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ "Apperley, George Owen Wynne (1884-1960)". Modernist Journals. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ "Apperley, George Owen Wynne, 1884–1960". Art UK. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ "George Owen Wynne Apperley". Leighton Fine Art. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ "Venus (1917)". Maas Gallery. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ Dizy Caso 1997, p. 22.
- ^ a b Requesens 2016, p. 97.
- ^ "George Owen Wynne Apperley". Christie's. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ "George Owen Wynne Apperley". Andalucia.com. 16 November 2017.
- ^ Requesens 2016, pp. 96–97.
- ^ "La Cordobesa". V&A. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ "Nude by George Owen Wynne Apperley". Lusher Gallery. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
Sources
[edit]- Dizy Caso, Eduardo (1997). Les orientalistes de l'ecole espagnole (in French). Paris: ACR. ISBN 978-2-867-70106-1.
- Requesens, Cesar (2016). Secret Granada. Versailles, France: Jonglez Publishing. ISBN 978-2-361-95025-5.
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