| Allen Jones RA |
| Biography Allen Jones studied at Hornsey College of Art form 1955 to 1959 and the Royal College of Art from 1959 to 1960. Between 1961 - 83 he taught at Croydon College of Art; Chelsea School of Art; University of South Florida; Hochschule fur Bildenden Kunst, Hamburg; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Irvine; Hochschule de Kunste, Berlin. Jones was appointed a Trustee of the British Museum from 1990 - 99. From the early 60s, his international reputation was established as a painter, printmaker and sculptor. Over the past 40 years his work has been exhibited continuously in Britain, Europe, North and South America, Australia, Japan and China in both solo and group exhibitions. There have been three major retrospectives of his work. The first at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, travelling to the Serpentine Gallery, London and to four venues in Germany. The second at the ICA, London, which travelled to the Fruit Market, Edinburgh and Anolfini, Bristol, and the third at the Barbican, London, which was subsequently toured worldwide by the British Council. In recent years sculpture commissions have formed a major part of Jones’s activity and include: Liverpool Garden Festival; Frederick Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles; Cotton’s Atrium, London; London Heathrow Terminal 4; London Docklands Development Board; Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London; Swire Properties, Taikoo Place, Hong Kong; Goodwood Sculpture Pak, Sussex; Chatsworth, Derbyshire; GlaxoSmithKline World HQ, London. He has also undertaken numerous private commissions in both painting and sculpture. Jones’s designs for stage and television include: 'Oh Calcutta!', for Kenneth Tynan; 'Manner wir kommen', West Deutsche Rundfunk; 'Understanding Opera', LWT; 'Satie/Cinema', Ballet Rambert; and 'Signed in Red', Royal Ballet. Jones lives and works in London and Oxfordshire. |
| Plate a from A Fleet of Buses Lithograph 1966 ed 20 64x57 £1100 |
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| Sculpture Project Watercolour 1986 18x26 poa |
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Stamped Indelibly Rubber Stamp 1967 ed 225 24x16 £550 |
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Self Screenprint 1965 43 x 22 £850 SOLD |
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