Albert Irvin 'Concordia III'

Albert Irvin OBE RA best known for his exuberant paintings, watercolours, screenprints and gouaches .Irvine studied at Goldsmiths College in London in 1946. In his early career he battled with the two alternatives of abstraction and figuration. It was not until the mid-1950s that Irvin finally moved away from relying on figures and social realism in his work and embraced an approach closer to metaphor and the abstract. The artist continued to experiment and changed from oil to the newly available acrylic paint in the early 1970s. He had a short-lived foray into lithography in 1975 and later began a screenprinting career in 1980 with Advanced Graphics London. The Albert Irvin Estate, run by his daughters Priscilla Hashmi and Celia Irvin, continues to promote his work. The Estate is represented by Gimpel Fils, London Advanced Graphics London handle the screenprints.