Lot 2: § VICTOR NEWSOME, BRITISH, b. 1935. 'Night Reflection', 1965, lacquered wood black box figurative relief.

§ VICTOR NEWSOME, BRITISH, b. 1935. 'Night Reflection', 1965, lacquered wood black box figurative relief.

PROVENANCE: Acquired by Michael Compton from the artist. For a similar work see 'Broken Cross' 1964, held in the Tate collection in London (ref: T13880).

This lot is part of a single owner collection of 28 lots to include Roy Lichtenstein, Marcel Broodthaers, Terry Frost, Henry Moore, Richard Long, Victor Newsome, Keith Milow, Billy Al Bengston, Ian Stephenson, Sol LeWitt and Joe Tilson.


VICTOR NEWSOME, b.1935: Victor Newsome was born in Leeds in 1935 and studied painting at the Leeds College of Art. In the early 1960's Newsome taught at Leicester then Nottingham Schools of Art and from 1964-70 at Hull College of Art beginning when Compton was still Director of the Ferens Art Gallery (1960-1965). Newsome stayed with the Comptons on several occasions and the friendship continued when the Comptons moved to London, by which time they owned Night Reflection. Newsome later taught sculpture and painting at Goldsmiths, Brighton, Wimbledon and Chelsea. Newsome's artistic vision appears at first to have altered drastically over the decades, however a recent retrospective at the Grosvenor Gallery, London in 2012 leads to the realisation that these changes in style are not perhaps as radical as first appears but are a more constant development. The bright abstract, organic then mechanical, reliefs of the 1960s were replaced by the detailed drawings and studies of the 1970s, then by the nudes and figures in interiors of the 1980s. Newsome continues to create and show his work.

h:12.60 w:12.60 d:5 in.