- Stephen Finer
Stephen Finer is a London based artist, active since the 1980s.
Work
Finer participated in "British Art from the Arts Council Collection 1940-80" at the
Hayward Gallery , 'Collazione Inglese ll' at theVenice Biennale and was in the touring exhibition, 'Men on Women', 'The Portrait Now ' at the National Portrait Gallery and 'Painting the Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000 ' held to celebrate the millennium also at the National Portrait Gallery, where his portrait ofDavid Bowie is in the permanent collection. [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp08176&rNo=0&role=art npg.org.uk portrait of David Bowie] ] There have been many solo exhibitions.His paintings are in the public collections of the Arts Council,
British Council ,Contemporary Art Society ,Los Angeles County Museum of Art , National Portrait Gallery and thePallant House Gallery .ubjects
Many of Stephen Finer's heads and figures are not identified but sometimes he has painted the same subjects several times. There are a number of paintings of Gill Bastedo,
David Bowie , Iman,Hartley Shawcross ,Yehudi Menuhin and others.References
Bibliography
* The Portrait Now published by the National Portrait Gallery ISBN 1-85514-098-5.
* 'Intimacy and Mortality Finer's People' byRobin Gibson , published by the Charleston Trust & later adapted as ISBN 0-9528502-7-3.
* 'Stephen Finer: Presence and Identity', by Martin Golding, Modern Painters Magazine ISSN 0953-External links
* [http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=075611183&ETOC=RN&from=searchengine details in
British Library ]
* [http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/search/s_results.asp?name=&passwd=&search=stephen+finer&page=&order=0&view=2&stype=all Bridgeman Art Library - copyright protected images]
* [http://www.nyss.org/fisher/images/big/finerCL.jpgSandra Fisher, Arts Council Collection]
* [http://collection.britishcouncil.org/html/work/work.aspx?a=1&id=40664§ion=/artist/|"Woman of Thirty seven", British Council Collection]
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/pubcent.asp Painting The Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces] ISBN 1-85514-289-9hbk; ISBN 1-85514-313-5pbk
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