Yellow and Orange

Henry Cliffe, born in Yorkshire, was a painter, printmaker and teacher. In the Second World War, Cliffe met William Scott while serving with the Royal Engineers and subsequently decided to enroll as a student at Bath Academy of Art. He was promptly invited to join the staff and became an influential teahcer. Cliffe's work was shown at two Venice Biennales (1954 and 1960) and he achieved his first solo exhibition of painting at the Redfern Gallery in 1956. Lots 176 to 178 strongly represent the inventiveness and experimentalism of Cliffe's period of pure non-representational art.