On Paper
Trevor Bell& Joan Miró
19th February to 12th March, 2022
Bell’s work contains a series of unseen pieces on paper whilst Miró’s explores a series of original lithographs and etchings signed by the artist and printed between 1972 and 1975.
Trevor Bell (1930 – 2017)
Bell became an influential member of the modern art community of St Ives Cornwall, England after being encouraged to move there by fellow Abstract painter Sir Terry Frost in 1955. Trevor Bell gained international recognition for his contribution to public art in 1973 whilst in the United States and became the Professor of Master Painting at Florida State University shortly afterwards. He would spend the next 20 years in America before returning to West Cornwall. In 2017 Tate St Ives celebrated Bell’s career with an exhibition that spanned five decades. Bell exhibited worldwide until his death in 2017.
Joan Miró (1893 – 1983)
Miró’s passion for lithography spanned the whole of his artistic career, these works were produced by three of the most important printing houses of the 20th century – Mourlot, Maeght and Robert Gustav Michel.