Portrait of Susan

Study of school girl. Signed: "Fyffe Christie Feb 1972" (in pencil), bottom right.

Fyffe Christie was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1946-1951, under muralist Walter Pritchard. He was a teacher at Barking Abbey Comprehensive School, Barking in the later years of his life. Christie had a good career as an artist, perhaps most famous for his murals and work in Scotland. He followed the artistic developments of European Modernism closely - it is easy to see the influence of painters like Matisse and Cezanne on his later works.

Gift of artist's widow, Eleanor Christie-Chatterley, November 2013.

Fyffe Christie was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1946-1951, under muralist Walter Pritchard. He was a teacher at Barking Abbey Comprehensive School, Barking in the later years of his life. Christie had a good career as an artist, perhaps most famous for his murals and work in Scotland. He followed the artistic developments of European Modernism closely - it is easy to see the influence of painters like Matisse and Cezanne on his later works.

Pencil on paper Signed: Fyffe Christie Feb 1972 (pc, b.r.)
Dimensions: 292 x 203 mm

Exhibited: 'Drawings of the School Children', Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, 1991, no.177 (illustrated)

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