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Larry Wakefield
Untitled Abstract Expressionist Painting, Mixed Media and Oil, 1980s

c.1980's

$851.57
£625
€763.99
CA$1,201.87
A$1,239.19
CHF 698.69
MX$15,860.83
NOK 8,055.79
SEK 8,425.88
DKK 5,712.77

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Larry Wakefield: Between Figure and Abstraction This summer, MCA presents a special online exhibition dedicated to the work of Larry Wakefield (1925–1997), bringing together a rare selection of abstract and figurative paintings and mixed media works from the 1980s and 1990s. Importantly, the artworks featured in this exhibition come directly from private collectors who maintained longstanding personal relationships with the artist over many years. As a result, the exhibition offers an intimate and authentic view into Wakefield’s later practice — a period marked by extraordinary freedom, experimentation, and emotional depth. A proportion of the works also depict the artist Greta Berlin (b. 1942), daughter of sculptor Sven Berlin (1911–1999), himself a sculptor, adding a further personal and biographical layer to this body of work. Working across oil, acrylic, and mixed media on paper, Wakefield developed a singular visual language that moved fluidly between abstraction and figuration. His paintings reveal an artist deeply engaged with the expressive possibilities of colour, gesture, texture, and the human form. Wakefield first gained recognition in France and Germany, where his expressive canvases and painterly nudes attracted critical attention. His work resisted strict categorisation: figures emerge and dissolve within layered abstract structures, while gestural marks and richly worked surfaces suggest both psychological intensity and lyrical spontaneity. Throughout these later decades, his compositions balanced raw material energy with moments of quiet sensuality and reflection. Having served in Germany during the Second World War, Wakefield carried a lifelong awareness of destruction, reconstruction, and human vulnerability. These experiences informed his fascination with fragmented space, urban forms, and the tension between beauty and instability. At the same time, his paintings celebrate the vitality of paint itself — colour applied with urgency, texture built through repeated layering, and surfaces alive with movement. During the final years of his career, Wakefield produced some of his most confident and experimental work. Abstract passages coexist with recognisable figures, musical rhythms, handwritten elements, and densely worked fields of colour. His mixed media works on paper, in particular, reveal an immediacy and intimacy that complement the scale and physicality of the larger canvases. Alongside his artistic practice, Wakefield was an influential educator, serving as lecturer and Deputy Head of Fine Art at Southampton Institute. He exhibited widely throughout Europe and was the subject of retrospectives at Southampton City Art Gallery and the Millais Gallery. Today, his work stands as a compelling contribution to post-war British painting — expressive, human, and fiercely independent.
  • Creator:
    Larry Wakefield (1925 - 1997, English, British)
  • Creation Year:
    c.1980's
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11.42 in (29 cm)Width: 7.49 in (19 cm)
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  • Movement & Style:
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  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Bournemouth, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1589218090232

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