Myles Murphy

born 1927

Myles Murphy, ‘Figure with Yellow Foreground’ 1974
Figure with Yellow Foreground 1974
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Biography

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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Artworks

Myles Murphy, ‘Figure with Yellow Foreground’ 1974

Myles Murphy Figure with Yellow Foreground

1974
T06875

Artist as subject

Helen Lessore, ‘Symposium I’ 1974–77

Helen Lessore Symposium I

1974–77
T03288

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