paul huxley / untitled (rothko memorial) / 30/134

Paul Huxley was born in London in 1938. He first studied at Harrow School of Art and then at the age of seventeen, he attended the Royal Academy Schools where he graduated in 1960.
In 1964 he was selected by Bryan Robertson for ‘The New Generation’ at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Works in this show from Huxley’s ‘fluid series’ of paintings became highly influential within the genre of new abstract painting at the time and won him an award that took him to the USA where he met many of the leading American artists of the period such as Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler and Jasper Johns, often visiting their studios and in some cases forming lasting friendships.
In 1965 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship that extended his residency in New York for a further two years culminating in his first solo show there.
Huxley has also taught in art schools throughout his career and has contributed to policy in the academic and curatorial fields. He was a member of the advisory panel for the Serpentine
Gallery, a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, acting for a period as chairman of its Exhibitions Committee.
He was Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art from 1986 until 1998 after which he was elected Honorary Fellow and Professor Emeritus. Many of his students from these years such as Dinos Chapman, Nigel Cook, Dexter Dalwood, Andrew Grassie, Tracey Emin, Chantal Joffe and Chris Ofili are now established artists contributing to the new British art which has been so widely acclaimed.
In 1987 he was editor of ‘Exhibition Road - Painters from the Royal College of Art’, a book to coincide with the exhibition of the same title, which he co-curated with Susie Allen.
He has been a Royal Academician since 1987 and acted as their Treasurer for fourteen years.
Over the last four decades Huxley's work has been shown in numerous solo and group
exhibitions both in the UK and internationally. Recent projects have included a series of steel sculptures and large-scale wall drawings including in the Azerbaijan International Pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale. In 2016 the Mark Rothko Centre in Latvia held a retrospective of his work.

Untitled, from Rothko Memorial Portfolio
Original Blockprint on J Green Waterleaf 140 lbs paper, printed by
Ian Mortimer & Dorothea Wight at I.M Imprimit, London.1973, from
the numbered edition of 75 (there were also 15 artist's proofs),
published by the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust, Daugavpils, Latvia,
with margins.

super-slim aluminium frame with conservation mount

• numbered (1/75), signed and dated by the artist,

image: 650x585mm
frame: 745x690mm

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