We’ve owned two huge examples of artworks by Gerald French, so it’s surprising that we’ve not featured him on our Designer Desire series before now. You can have a look at one of them here.
French (1927-2001) hailed from Bradford and attended Bradford School of Art part-time where he was a contemporary of David Hockney. We’ve included one of a few sketches he did of Hockney in our collage above.
There’s a small number of French’s works in public collections including The Hepworth Wakefield, Bradford Museums and Abbot Hall in Kendal, Cumbria.
Original examples of his work regularly come up for sale at auction – especially up here in Yorkshire.
Additional image credits:
Abbot Hall Art Gallery | Bradford Museums | Calderdale MBC | David Duggleby | The Hepworth Wakefield