Allin Braund 1915–2004

Allin Braund’s style of cubist space apparent in his lithographs was quick to find critical acclaim some works being chosen to appear at the 1954 Venice Biennale alongside Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Ben Nicholson, Henry Cliffe and Eduardo Paolozzi. He became a major force in British art from the early 1950s and gained a following overseas.

Braund was an artist of exceptional and diverse talent and epitomised the post war English romantic abstract tradition. He was able to work with equal merit in the mediums of oil, watercolour, lithography, stained glass, relief sculpture & sculpture, including the, at one time, cutting-edge use of fibre-glass.

Braund was born in Devon and educated at Hornsey College of Art where he eventually taught and developed his interest in oil, watercolour, lithography, stained glass and sculpture.

His relief sculptures can be seen at London's Thames River Police Boatyard in Wapping and Paddington Police Station.

He exhibited at the Redfern Gallery, the Royal Academy and the Arts Council of Great Britain. His works are held in the collections of the British Government, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Boston Art Museum, the cumin Museum in Southwark and the British Council.

He was featured in documentaries including The BBC's 'The Artist at Work' and the press, including The Spectator and The Arts Review; editions 1960 and 1963. His pupil Allen Jones described his teacher’s work as ‘Braque out of doors'.

Picture dimensions = 59x42cm
Frame dimensions = 73x48.5cm

Black lacquered wood