Sandra Blow valuation
Pioneer of British abstraction in the 1950s, known for large, bold collages of paint and discarded materials.
Sandra Blow (1925–2006) was born in London and studied at Saint Martin's School of Art from 1941 to 1946, where she met Lucian Freud, John Minton and Francis Bacon, then spent a short time at the Royal Academy Schools before travelling to Italy and enrolling at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.
What a work by Sandra Blow is worth
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Bio
Sandra Blow (1925–2006) was born in London and studied at Saint Martin's School of Art from 1941 to 1946, where she met Lucian Freud, John Minton and Francis Bacon, then spent a short time at the Royal Academy Schools before travelling to Italy and enrolling at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. There she met the painter Alberto Burri, her partner for a few years, and his use of rough, discarded materials stayed with her for the rest of her life. They worked together in Paris in 1949, but she returned to Britain in 1950 to find her own way, and became one of the pioneers of British abstract painting in that decade. Her works are characteristically large and colourful abstract collages, combining paint with torn paper and other discarded materials.
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