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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableWhen the landscape painter Derwent Lees was born in 1884 under his civil name of Desmond Lees as the son of a bank manager in Hobart in what is now the Australian state of Tasmania on the island of the same name in the Indian Ocean a good 200 kilometres off the southern coast of the continent, many righteous inhabitants of the former convict colony on the Derwent River were still suffering from the socially bad reputation of their home town. To shake off the stigma of a settlement of criminals and wipe it out, many local families of the time sought economic success through business start-ups, building a quiet, conservative and strongly class-conscious society over time. Desmond's life also seemed to have taken a more conventional direction at first, as he attended Melbourne Grammar School on the mainland between 1899 and 1900. However, a head injury suffered in childhood and the loss of a foot in a riding accident as an adolescent laid the foundations, so to speak, for his dramatic and tragic later biography.
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Under his new artist name, inspired by the above-mentioned river of his homeland, Derwent Lees was drawn to the "El Dorado" of art in Paris around the turn of the century. After only a short stay in the French capital, he moved to London in 1905 and studied there at the then already world-famous art school "Slade School of Fine Art" at University College London under the professors Henry Tonks and Frederick Brown. While still a student, he joined the school's teaching staff in 1908 and remained employed without interruption for ten years. Lees was able to celebrate his first successes in 1909 with still simple drawings and their exhibitions in the Goupil Galleries and the Chenil Gallery in Chelsea. In 1911 he became a member of the "New English Art Club", which was influenced by Impressionism, where he made friends with the two painters Augustus John and James Dickson Innes, with whom Lees lived together in a hut in North Wales from 1910 to 1912.
In 1912 Innes and Lees undertook a painting trip to Collioure in the south of France, where they came into contact with the brand new fauvist movement or fauvism as the start of classical modernism. In the same year, however, his artistic career was severely shaken by the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Nonetheless, he married his wife Edith Harriet Price (1890-1984) in 1913, who worked as a model for Augustus John under her pseudonym "Lyndra". She was the only Australian artist to appear at the "Armory Show" in New York City in February/March 1913, which is now regarded as the beginning of Modernism in the USA. Lee's illness also worsened with the early death of his close friend and artistic contemporary James Dickson Innes in 1914 at the age of only 27 from consumption, which was followed by a creative break for several years before Derwent Lee was finally committed to the sanatoriums of Epsom and Surrey from 1918, where he created several unnamed works between 1920 and 1929, which are now in the "National Gallery of Australia" in Canberra, and died at the age of 45 in 1931.
When the landscape painter Derwent Lees was born in 1884 under his civil name of Desmond Lees as the son of a bank manager in Hobart in what is now the Australian state of Tasmania on the island of the same name in the Indian Ocean a good 200 kilometres off the southern coast of the continent, many righteous inhabitants of the former convict colony on the Derwent River were still suffering from the socially bad reputation of their home town. To shake off the stigma of a settlement of criminals and wipe it out, many local families of the time sought economic success through business start-ups, building a quiet, conservative and strongly class-conscious society over time. Desmond's life also seemed to have taken a more conventional direction at first, as he attended Melbourne Grammar School on the mainland between 1899 and 1900. However, a head injury suffered in childhood and the loss of a foot in a riding accident as an adolescent laid the foundations, so to speak, for his dramatic and tragic later biography.
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Under his new artist name, inspired by the above-mentioned river of his homeland, Derwent Lees was drawn to the "El Dorado" of art in Paris around the turn of the century. After only a short stay in the French capital, he moved to London in 1905 and studied there at the then already world-famous art school "Slade School of Fine Art" at University College London under the professors Henry Tonks and Frederick Brown. While still a student, he joined the school's teaching staff in 1908 and remained employed without interruption for ten years. Lees was able to celebrate his first successes in 1909 with still simple drawings and their exhibitions in the Goupil Galleries and the Chenil Gallery in Chelsea. In 1911 he became a member of the "New English Art Club", which was influenced by Impressionism, where he made friends with the two painters Augustus John and James Dickson Innes, with whom Lees lived together in a hut in North Wales from 1910 to 1912.
In 1912 Innes and Lees undertook a painting trip to Collioure in the south of France, where they came into contact with the brand new fauvist movement or fauvism as the start of classical modernism. In the same year, however, his artistic career was severely shaken by the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Nonetheless, he married his wife Edith Harriet Price (1890-1984) in 1913, who worked as a model for Augustus John under her pseudonym "Lyndra". She was the only Australian artist to appear at the "Armory Show" in New York City in February/March 1913, which is now regarded as the beginning of Modernism in the USA. Lee's illness also worsened with the early death of his close friend and artistic contemporary James Dickson Innes in 1914 at the age of only 27 from consumption, which was followed by a creative break for several years before Derwent Lee was finally committed to the sanatoriums of Epsom and Surrey from 1918, where he created several unnamed works between 1920 and 1929, which are now in the "National Gallery of Australia" in Canberra, and died at the age of 45 in 1931.
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.jpg "Portrait of Essil Elmslie by Derwent Lees")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1523203).jpg "Lyndra in the Garden, c. 1913 by Derwent Lees")
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.jpg "Studies of a Crouching Figure by Derwent Lees")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1529719).jpg "Portrait of John Fothergill, c.1907 by Derwent Lees")
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