SIGNED, LARGE ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, WITH STUDIO STAMP ATELIER FRED YATES ON BACK OF PAINTING.
PRESUMED TO BE NUDE SELF-PORTRAIT. A RARE AND UNUSUAL COLOUR PALLETE FOR THE ARTIST.
ACRYLIC PAINTING BY YATES WITH HIS OWN SIGNIFICANT SYMBOLISM SURROUNDING THE FIGURES, IN A VIBRANT TURQUOISE BLUE GREEN, REMINISCENT OF THE
SEA, WHICH HE SO LOVED.
DIMENSIONS: 810MM BY 650MM
2 OFFERS RECEIVED
In 2011, which wasn't the best year for the art market, Bonham's sold a typical Fred Yates painting for £13,800 - please see link below:
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/18737/lot/51/
Fred Yates was a friend of L.S. Lowry who he knew from Manchester, and was greatly influenced by him in the early days. However, Yates preferred to use colour in his paintings which took him away from the typical industrial landscapes of post-war Manchester, and he became known as the "Happy Lowry".
Yates exhibited at the Paris Salon and in 1954 he had success in England, winning second prize to Lowry's famous picture "Going to the Match" in an art competition on the theme of football, which was organised by the FA.