Red Figure, 1957 by Deborah Brown. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,000 AT HAMMER
A timed auction of the Deborah Brown collection is underway at Adams until October 1. This is a studio collection of her work with reasonable estimates along with art by friends and contemporaries including Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone, James Humbert Craig, Alice Berger Hammerschlag, William Scott and Basil Blackshaw whose art she admired.
Largely unknown at home Deborah Brown, who died in her mid ’90’s last year, was an artist of international repute who evolved into abstraction in the 1950’s and exhibited at the New Vision Centre gallery in London, the Free Painters Group and the Arnolfini in Bristol. A retrospective at the Ulster Museum and the Hugh Lane Gallery was held in 1982 and another at the F E McWilliam gallery in 2012-13.