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| Richard Smith (1931-2016) |
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| Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert are proud to represent the estate of the English painter and printmaker, Richard Smith. Among the most influential artists active in Britain during the 1960s, Smith was a pioneer of Pop Art who simultaneously forged a new direction for abstract painting. A highly original thinker and practitioner, he brought a Pop sensibility to abstraction, employing a pared-down formalist aesthetic which fused the two tendencies and created an entirely novel and distinctive style of painting. |
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| Born in 1931 in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, Smith studied at the Royal College of Art (1954-7) in London alongside the Pop artists Peter Blake, Joe Tilson and Robyn Denny, before being offered the Harkness Fellowship which allowed him to travel to New York. The city's slick advertisements, glam imagery and saturated colour made a lasting impression upon him, and during this initial stint in America, he attracted much attention from significant artworld players such as the curator Henry Geldzahler and gallerist Richard Bellamy, who in 1961, hosted Smith's first solo show at the Green Gallery, which proved to be the first exhibition of 'Pop Art' in America. |
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| RICHARD SMITH OBITUARIES |
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| The Times |
| BBC News |
| NYC Times |
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| RICHARD SMITH 1931-2016 |
| 1954-57 | Royal College of Art, London |
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| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
| 1961 | Green Gallery, New York |
| 1962 | Institute of Contemporary Arts, London |
| 1963 | Kasmin Gallery, London |
| Green Gallery, New York |
| 1965 | Green Gallery, New York |
| 1966 | Whitechapel Gallery, London |
| Richard Feigen Gallery, New York |
| 1967 | Kasmin Gallery, London |
| Richard Feigen Gallery, New York |
| IX São Paulo Biennale, Brazil |
| Galerie Denise Rene Hans Mayer, Krefeld, West Germany |
| 1968 | Richard Feigen Gallery, New York |
| Jewish Museum, New York |
| 1969 | Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan |
| Kasmin Gallery, London |
| 1970 | XXXV Venice Biennale, British Pavilion, Venice |
| Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol |
| 1971 | Richard Feigen Gallery, New York |
| Kasmin Gallery, London |
| 1972 | Museum of Modern Art, Oxford |
| Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan |
| Kasmin Gallery, London |
| 1973 | Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara |
| Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1974 | X Biennale Internationale D'Art, Palais De L'Europe, Menton |
| 1975 | Tate Gallery, London |
| Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro |
| Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas |
| Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge, toured to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
| Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London |
| 1976 | Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota |
| 1977 | MIT, Cambridge, toured the United States |
| 1978 | Padiglione d'Arte Contemporaneo, Parco Massari, Ferrara |
| Galeria San Diego, Bogota |
| Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York |
| Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, toured to Chrysler Museum, Norfolk; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis |
| 1979 | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
| The Museum of Art at Washington State, Pullman, Washington |
| Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas |
| Hedendaagse Kunst Museum, Utrecht, toured to Museum Het Bruggebouw, Emmen, Netherlands |
| 1980 | Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Saskatchewan |
| Bernard Jacobson Ltd, New York |
| Arco Centre for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles |
| Stadtmuseum, Ulm, West Germany |
| 1992 | Galerie Wassermann, Munich |
| 1995 | Flowers Graphics, London |
| 1996 | Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London |
| Flowers Graphics, London |
| 1997 | Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London |
| Flowers Graphics, London |
| 2001 | Flowers, London |
| 2008 | Flowers, London |
| 2010 | Flowers, New York |
| 2011 | Flowers, London |
| 2013 | Flowers, New York |
| 2014 | Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne |
| Flowers, London |
| 2015 | Charing Cross Hospital, London |
| Flowers Gallery, New York |
| 2016 | Krakow Witkin, Boston |
| 2017 | Zuleika Gallery, Oxford |
| Flowers, London |
| 2018 | Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London |