Reginald Gray (artist)

Reginald Gray ( born 1930 in Dublin, Ireland, † March 29, 2013 in Paris) was an Irish portrait painter.

Life and work

After graduating in 1953 at the National College of Art in Dublin and in Cecil ffrench Salkeld at the Royal Hibernian Academy Gray worked as a set designer for Pike and Gate theaters in Dublin and the Lyric Theatre in London. In 1957 he moved to London and joined in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the School of London, which was directed by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach.

1960 Gray created a portrait of Bacon, which is part of the collection of the London National Portrait Gallery. There were other portraits of writers, musicians and artists such as Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Jacques Brel, Juliette Binoche, Bernard Buffet, Rupert Everett, Alberto Giacometti, Yves Saint Laurent, Jean -Paul Sartre and Harold Pinter.

Grays first solo exhibition was in 1960 in the Abbott & Holder Gallery in London. From 1962 to 1964 he lived in Rouen and then moved to Paris, where he lived and worked until his death. 1993 showed the UNESCO in Paris, a retrospective of his work.

In February 2002, Gray was chosen as an official member of the American Society of Portrait Painters and in 2006 won his portrait La Blouse Blanche the Sandro Botticelli Price in Florence.

Museums

Portraits of Gray are permanently at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, the Museum of London, at The Bankfield Museum in York, United Kingdom and the Church The Church of The Holy Cross, St. Pancras in the London Borough of Camden issued in London.

• Gallery

Portrait from life of Francis Bacon, 1960, National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait from life of Samuel Beckett, 1961

Portrait of Bernard Buffet, 1964

Portrait of Alfred Schnittke, 1972

Portrait of Laurent Terzieff, 1981

Portrait of Doina, 2001

La Blouse Blanche ( Sandro Botticelli Price, Florence, 2006)