biography
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| (1911–75)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Northwood, NW Greater London, UK. He trained at the Slade School of Art, London. After spending some time in Paris in the 1930s, he was captured at Dieppe in 1942, and was a prisoner-of-war till 1945. He produced his first abstract paintings in 1950. He won first prize in the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition in 1963, and the UNESCO Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1964. |
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