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The Colony Room Mural

(1958 United Kingdom)

James Hyman Gallery



Artist(s): MICHAEL ANDREWS (1928-1995)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 377.00cm wide   263.00cm high (148.43 inches wide  103.54 inches high)
Provenance:

Muriel Belcher
Ian Board
Michael Wojas

Literature:

Daniel Farson, Soho in the Fifties, London, 1987
Lynn Pearson, After the Festival: Mural decoration in postwar Britain, paper given at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, 14th March 2007
Paul Moorhouse and William Feaver (eds), Michael Andrews, Tate Publishing, London, 2001

Description:

An icon of British cultural history, this enormous canvas was installed at the famous Colony Room Club in Soho for fifty years, from 1958 to 2008.