Christie's presents its Modern British and Irish Art Sales as part of its flagship 20th/21st Century Art auction series. For the October Art Diary, I feature exhibitions by several artists whose work ...

Born in Barnes, London in 1930, Gillian Ayres attended Camberwell College of Art between 1945 and 1950 before going on to a successful career as an abstract painter and teacher at schools including ...

Gillian Ayres, one of Britain's pioneering abstract artists, has died aged 88. The Turner Prize-nominated artist died at a hospital in north Devon on Wednesday, her representative, the Alan Cristea ...

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LONDON (AP) — British artist Gillian Ayres, whose abstract works celebrated shape and color, has died at 88. The Alan Cristea Gallery, which represented her, says Ayres died "peacefully" in the ...

Gillian Ayres is an English painter best known for her large, vividly colored abstract paintings and prints. Her work, created by layering thick layers of pigment, draws on a variety of styles and art ...

Gillian Ayres, one of Britain's leading abstract painters of the last 60 years, has died at the age of 88. Ayres was at the forefront of the British contemporary art scene from the 1950s, and became ...

Horizontalis is a bold and energetic work that exemplifies Ayres's love of vibrant color and dynamic form. This strong use of color is an excellent example of Ayres' oeuvre during this period, and is ...