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Myles Murphy

born 1927

Figure with Yellow Foreground 1974
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Myles Francis Martin Murphy (14 February 1927 – 16 November 2016) was an English painter known for his mathematical approach to depictions of the human figure which he learned at the Slade School of Art where he later taught. In 1954 he was seriously burned while painting himself in a wedding dress but subsequently won the Slade diploma prize for the portrait he was working on at the time. In 1974, he won the John Moores Painting Prize for Figure with Yellow Foreground.

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  • Figure with Yellow Foreground

    Myles Murphy
    1974

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  • Symposium I

    Helen Lessore
    1974–77
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