Harvey Daniels goldmark 2017
photo: Alan Young, 1992
‘
Because the structure of the work is so important
to me, the colour is secondary. Critics, however, often
write about my particular use of colour, but also about the musicality of my work. Music is important to my
work—not just in the listening, but in the attempt to make work that is musical in itself. By this I don’t mean descriptive or schematic and certainly not as a response, but as an equivalent. The brightness of a viridian against a black or the structure that uses a circle or a row of dots is just as much part of the musicality as is the vibrancy of the overall colour.
’
Harvey Daniels Harvey Daniels is, above all, an artist of joy. His intensely bright, dynamic, musical arrangements of geometric shapes and shades revel in the balance of opposites: light and dark; harmony and dissonance; chaos and calm. Born in London in 1936, Daniels began his artistic career as a painter of people and still lifes inspired by the British artist Walter Sickert before discovering the cut-out collages of Matisse. A student of the Slade in the mid-1950s, he applied his intuitive understanding of graphic media to become the Principal Lecturer on printmaking at Brighton College of Art for nineteen years, eventually leaving to teach elsewhere throughout the UK, Norway, Greece, Australia and the US as a visiting professor. With works held in major public and private collections across the world, Daniels’ reputation has grown exponentially in recent years. His vibrant paintings, be they in acrylic, gouache, or sonorous watercolour, juxtapose dancing forms and colours with a merry abandon that recalls the choreography of Delaunay’s Orphism, Miró’s unpredictable Abstract Surrealism, and the rhythmic arrangement of Klee and Kandinsky. From every luminescent yellow to their midnight blues, Daniels’ paintings reaffirm the strength of optimistic art in a world frequently devoid of colour and mirth. My work is primarily celebratory, he has stated: a fact itself worth celebrating.
1936 - 2013
These works were acquired from a notable Daniels collection. Several were illustrated in the catalogue of a major 1997 exhibition. *Paintings from the exhibition are marked with an asterisk.
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opposite:
Tree, £5000* acrylic on unstretched canvas, 1993, signed, 91.5 x 48.5 cm
Play Me, £3500* 2
gouache, 1987, signed, 107 x 38 cm
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Lime to Orange II, £4500* acrylic, 1991, signed verso, 61 x 40.5 cm,
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Direction, ÂŁ6000* 6
watercolour, 2003, signed, 66.5 x 100 cm
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Untitled (Lambs), £6000 acrylic, 101.5 x 50 cm
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Sweet, £1450
Wise Fish, £1450
watercolour, 2003, signed, 56.5 x 19 cm
watercolour, 2003, signed, 56.5 x 19 cm
Sweet, Wise Fish & Magic special price: all three for ÂŁ3000
Magic, ÂŁ1450 watercolour, 2003, signed, 56.5 x 19 cm
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Celebrate, ÂŁ600 12
screenprint, 1987, ed 46, signed, 56 x 76 cm
Biography 1936
Born, London
1951-56
Willesden School of Art, NDD
1956-58
London University, Slade, DipFA (London)
1958-59
Brighton College of Art (now University of Brighton) ATD
1963-89
Lecturer, Brighton College of Art, Brighton Polytechnic
1967
Marriage to artist Judy Stapleton
1970
Birth of daughter Zoe
1972
Birth of daughter Prudence
1989
Studios in Brighton and La Rochelle, France
2001
Moved French studio to LĂŠzan, France
2013
Died, France
Works in Public Collections include Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
The Aldrich Collection, University of Brighton
Metropolitan Museum, New York
British Council Collection, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
London University, Extra-Mural Dept, London
South London Art Gallery, London
Hove Museum of Art, Hove, Sussex
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, USA
Trinity College, Oxford
Cumberland House Museum, Southsea, Hampshire
Hertfordshire County Council, Hertfordshire
Free Library of Philadelphia, USA
Redbridge Art Centre, Redbridge, Essex
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, USA
Bergens Kunstforening, Norway
Flint Museum, Michigan, USA
City Art Gallery, Leeds
Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University, Ohio, USA
Tower Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Wright State University, Ohio, USA
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton
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Marc's Dogs, ÂŁ550 lithograph, 1975, ed 25, signed, 68 x 48 cm
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