Frederick GORE CBE RA (1913 -2009)

From the Foreword to the 1989 Frederick Gore Retrospective Catalogue at the Royal Academy

”...the painting showed the ability to use colour structurally, to build a compelling painting on the intervals of harmonies of hue. Imaginative colour is no mere delightful quality of natural or artistic things, but a spirit upon them by which they become expressive to the spirit, where colour sings. Colour becomes more than just mere hue, it becomes light and atmosphere...structural marks are of primary importance.The marks create an open, almost empty expansiveness...there are laid on strokes,varying from thin to thick paint, and at times an allowance of the canvas to show through. This makes the whole painting breathe, and produces freshness.” Gillian Ayres RA 1989

Extract from the President's Foreword to Freddy's Royal Academy Retrospective Exhibition,in 1989:


" Frederick Gore joined the Royal Academy in 1964 and has since made himself one of the best loved and most effective members of the institution, both as an artist and as a key figure in the revival of the Royal Academy's fortune and reputation over the last 20 years. As Chairman of the Royal Academy Exhibitions Committee from 1976 to 1987 he was a sure and guiding hand in the Academy's exhibitions programme and contributed significantly with his great knowledge, and love of art to Exhibitions such as British Painting 1952-77 (1977), Post-Impressionism (1979), Murillo (1983), and most recently, British Art in the Twentieth Century (1987). He has never shied away from stimulating controversy but his commitment to the art, both of the past and of the present has been unswerving.
However, he is, above all, a painter and it is as a painter that we wish to celebrate him. His father, Spencer Gore, was one of the key founders of Modern Art this century and Freddy has continued to build in his own particular and characteristic way on his father's concern for the value of pure colour as perceived by the artist in nature.
Roger de Grey,President of the Royal Academy 1989
As a longtime supporter and fan of Freddy,I could not believe the energy displayed by this amazing man two years ago at his Ninetieth birthday party at The Chelsea Arts Club, with dozens of guests who had come from all over the world. As the leading English Fauve, he has that marvellous palette which sends one's spirits soaring, and his paintings will brighten up any room.
Noel Oddy February 2006

Please find following not only a biography, but also a selection of paintings that have been shown in Highgate over the years; Noel Oddy and Freddy were good friends.   We think this is probably the most comprehensive image bank of Freddy's work.  Obviously only a very small selection of work remains at the gallery, however should you be interested seeing Freddy's work we would be happy to see what remains available and get it to the gallery.

Laurie MacLaren 2011
Biography


1913 Born Richmond, Surrey.
1914 His father,the painter Spencer Gore, who with Walter Sickert,was one of the Founders of The Camden Town Group, died of pneumonia.
1932-4 Studied painting at the Ruskin School while reading Classics at Oxford.
1934-7 Westminster School of Art, influenced by Mark Gertler and Bernard Meninsky.
1934-7 Slade School of Art.
1937 Summer painting in Les Baux de Provence.
1937 Redfern Gallery, London - One man show
1938 Painting in Greece.
1938 Galerie Borghese,Paris, Exhibition of his Greek paintings with introduction by art critic Louis Vauxcelles who was the first to use the expression 'Fauves'.
1939 Stafford Gallery,London - Greek paintings
1940-1946 Army Service
1946-1979 Taught at St Martin's School of Art, Chelsea School of Art and Epsom School of Art.
1949-1962 Redfern Gallery,London
- Five one-man shows during this period.
1951-1979 Appointed Head of Painting Department, St Martin's School of Art.
1954 Tate Gallery. Contemporary Art Society Exhibition.
1956 Tate Gallery. Contemporary Art Society Exhibition.
1956 Published "Abstract Art" (Methuen)
1958 Tate Gallery.Contemporary Art Society Exhibition.
1958 Mayor Gallery,London - One-man Exhibition.
1960 Mayor Gallery,London - One-man Exhibition.
1963 JusterGallery,New York,One-man Exhibition.
1964 Elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
1965 Published - "Painting, some Basic
Principles" (Vista / Reinhold)
1969 Published - Piero della Francesca: "The Baptism" ( Cassell )
1973 Elected Royal Academician
1976-87 Chairman, Exhibitions Committee,Royal Academy
1979 Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk - Retrospective Exhibition
1979 Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk - Retrospective Exhibition
1983 Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk -
One-man Exhibition
1983 Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold:
Ten Royal Academicians
1985 Phoenix Gallery Lavenham, Suffolk - "Paintings at Home and Abroad" -
One-man Exhibition.
1986 Musee de la Boulangerie,Bonnieux, Luberon.
1987 Phoenix Gallery Kingston-upon-Thames - "Eight British Artists"
(opened by Roger de Grey PRA).
1988 Awarded C.B.E.
1988 Gallery 10, Grosvenor St.London
"Paintings of Greece since the 1930's"
1989 Royal Academy - Retrospective Exhibition.
1990 Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold:
One-man Exhibition.
1992 The London Transport Museum, Covent Garden.
1993 Gallery at John Jones,Finsbury Park London
" Frederick Gore at Eighty ".
1996 Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold:
One-man Exhibition.
1999 Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold:
One-man:"Paintings of the South of France".
2003 Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold
2006 Jonathan Wylder Gallery,Belgravia,London
- in Association with Highgate Fine Art
One-man Exhibition-"Frederick Gore 2006"


Work in Public Collections including:
Southampton Art Gallery
Plymouth Art Gallery
Beaverbrook Foundation, New Brunswick, Canada
Leicester County Council
Doncaster Art Gallery
Contemporary Art Society
Department of the Environment
Reading Art Gallery
The Rutherston Collection
London Transport Museum
The Royal Academy of Arts
Hotel de Ville, Bonnieux, Provence





Paintings

Houses of Parliament from Lambeth Bridge
Sold
Laburnum, Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, 1975
Wheatfield with Arles in the distance, 1990
Sold
13 Battersea Bridge, Winter morning
Sold
La Fontaine Mousseuse, Salon-de-Provence
Sold
The Rhone at Arles, Provence,(2) 1985
The coming storm, below Roussillon, Vaucluse, 1997
Sold
Canal in Amsterdam
Autumn in Chelsea, Taxi waiting
November, Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea
11 Trafalgar Square
Bonnieux, Vaucluse, with Mont Ventoux in the distance, 1982
Sold
Val d'Entreconque, Les Baux-de-Provence, 1984
Sold
A character on Broadway 1986
The Amazing Plastic Ceiling, Bun 'n' Burger on Lexington, NYC, 1980
The New Artist-in-Residence, Washington Square, NYC 2000
Gumbo stage, New Orleans Jazz Fest, 1992
Autumn in Chelsea, 2000
Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, 1982
Sold
42 Carnival in Venice - The First Day.
Plateau des Claperedes, Bonnieux, Vaucluse
Empire State Building from a Parking Lot, Avenue of the Americas, Snow & Night,1986
Field of Sunflowers near Carluc, 2001
Sold
From The Café Figaro, Bleecker Street, NYC, in the rain, 1992
View of The South Downs from Glynde,with Firle Beacon,1996wc
The Harbour, Kavalla, Greece
Have-a-Donut Coffee Shop, W 23rd & 7th Avenue NYC 1990
Lavender & Harvest-field, Buoux, 2001
Lavender Field, Plateau de Vaucluse and Mont Ventoux, 2001
A Farmhouse at Les Chapelins, Mont Ventoux in the distance, 2001
Sold
Still Life with Sunflowers, Apricots and Paintings, Bonnieux
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Poppies below Bonnieux, Vaucluse, 2001
The South Downs from Glynde, with Firle Beacon,1996
35 A farmer and his family picking grapes, Bonnieux (La Vendange)
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View of the Luberon from Carluc, 2001
Methana seen from Aegina
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Roman Bridge: Le Pont Julien, 2001
Vineyard, Bonnieux, Vaucluse, October, 2001
The Gardens and Hills of Villars,Vaucluse , 2001
Lavender distillery at Simiane-la-Rotonde (Alpes-de-Haute Provence)
Sold
Melting snow, Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea ca.1991
Wild flowers along a roadside hedge, wc
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First snow, Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, 1991
Battersea Bridge, Whistler's Reach, sunset, 1962
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Fairground 1985
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Poppies near Lacoste, Vaucluse 2002
C'An Det, Majorca 1967
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Harvest Haute Provence, 2001
Paris from Le Pont Neuf, Winter, 1979
The Haute Luberon from Le Petit Carluc, 2001
Arles, Van Gogh's Café de la Nuit
Harvesting the sunflowers, Bonnieux
Summer flowers and Indian Bedspread (1)
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Still-life, Flowers against an Indian Bedspread
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Mausanne, fountain & square
Lucien's Hayfield, Bonnieux
Vineyard in the Luberon
Whistler's Reach
Cape Sunion, Greece 1938
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Dorrington Cottage, Meopham, Kent 1975
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After the Harvest, Under the Luberon 1985
Mountain torrent, Forna Lutx, Mallorca 1972
01 Outside the Cinema, Charing Cross Road
16 Olive Trees, Les Baux de Provence
23 Landscape below Bonnieux
04 My neighbour's car
22 Arles, Place du Forum,Van Gogh's Café de la Nuit
02 Spring, Elm Park Gardens
15 Elm Park Gardens, Late Autumn
17 The Tulip Coffee Pot and Kelim
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03 Harvest time, Meopham, Kent
18 The Alpilles at Romanil, near St Rémy de Provence
19 Napoleon's little Drummer-Boy, at Cadenet
20 Bonnieux, where the New Road meets the Old
21 The Rhone at Arles
24 Les Baux de Provence
25 A storm in The Alpilles, near St Rémy
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46 Kyrillos and Athena, 1987
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40 A farmhouse, Soller, Mallorca
44 Cretan dancers at Easter
26 The Blue Coffee Pot
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28 Cardoons
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09 Birds and Bicycles, Regent's Park
27 A meadow of flowers
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30 Olive trees, Les Baux de Provence (ii)
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31 Olive trees on Bauxite
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36 Almond trees, Les Baux de Provence
47 Olympia, Greece
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06 London Plane Tree
07 The Vale, from Elm Park Gardens
08 May trees in blossom, Meopham, Kent
10 The roof of Kenwood House
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14 Snow, Elm Park Gardens, with Quesalid and self portrait
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29 Vaulted ceiling, Merindol
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32 Cabro d'Or, Ste Maries de la Mer
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34 The Long Barn, Petit Carluc
36(c) Grande Bastide, near Cereste
36(b) Olive Trees, Les Baux de Provence
37 New York Dogs
38 New York Buskers, now forbidden
39 Mallorquine entrada (detail)
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41 Orange Trees, Mallorca
43 The Syrto, Crete,
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49 View of the Taegutus Mountains, above Sparta
50 Paros, Taverna by the sea, with fishing nets drying
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51 Mountain view above Sfendouri, Aegina
The Blue Tablecloth, Bonnieux
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Still life with Sunflowers and grapes,Bonnieux
Road off Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea SW3
Field of Sunflowers, Provence 1988
The Rhone at Arles, Bouche de Rhone 1983
Mausanne les Apilles 2001
Harvest Field and Lavender, Boux 1997
Harvest, Haute Provence


Exhibitions

Christmas & New Year Group Show , 2001 - 2002 >

DISTINGUISHED LANDSCAPES ( 1 ) Douglas Wilson RCA and Frederick Gore CBE RA >

FREDERICK GORE at JONATHAN WYLDER GALLERY, Motcomb Street,Belgravia in Association with HIGHGATE FINE ART, March 2nd to April 1st >

" LONDON " - From June 21st to July 8th 2006 >

CUNDALL, GOWING, GORE, IRWIN and IRWIN - January 17th 2007 to February 24th 2007 >

'Gallimaufry' 2007 >

NOEL, NOEL 2007 -Presenting 80 works by Gallery artists - December 12 to January 12 >

'STILL LIFE' 10th - 27th September 2008 >

Fredereick Gore CBE RA & Sir Lawrence Gowing CBE RA ' Two Friends..' >