Andrew Wilson (ed.), Patrick Heron: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings

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Patrick Heron (1920-1999) was a leading and influential figure among the gifted generation of artists that emerged in Britain after the Second World War. British by birth and European by inclination, he revered above all others Cézanne, Matisse, Bonnard and Braque, artists whose work informed his ideas about art and the development of an extraordinary oeuvre that took as its principle subject the interactions of colour, light and space. 

 

While Heron’s work has been the subject of outstanding institutional exhibitions in Britain, North America and Australia, and of major publications, including Mel Gooding Patrick Heron (1995) and Michael McNay Patrick Heron (2002), the forthcoming catalogue raisonné will reveal for the first time the full extent of the paintings’ oeuvre. Not only will this major publication illustrate and catalogue every oil painting (over 1,000) Heron made, it will also show more clearly than before the remarkable progression from his boyhood paintings to his glorious late paintings, and every stage between.

 

Each entry will comprise an illustration of the work, descriptive information, comprehensive provenance, exhibition history and bibliography. In addition, the book will include critical essays about the oeuvre and an extensive chronology.

 

The project is supported by the Patrick Heron Trust.

 

Patrick Heron (1920-1999) was a leading and influential figure among the gifted generation of artists that emerged in Britain after the Second World War. British by birth and European by inclination, he revered above all others Cézanne, Matisse, Bonnard and Braque, artists whose work informed his ideas about art and the development of an extraordinary oeuvre that took as its principle subject the interactions of colour, light and space. 

 

While Heron’s work has been the subject of outstanding institutional exhibitions in Britain, North America and Australia, and of major publications, including Mel Gooding Patrick Heron (1995) and Michael McNay Patrick Heron (2002), the forthcoming catalogue raisonné will reveal for the first time the full extent of the paintings’ oeuvre. Not only will this major publication illustrate and catalogue every oil painting (over 1,000) Heron made, it will also show more clearly than before the remarkable progression from his boyhood paintings to his glorious late paintings, and every stage between.

 

Each entry will comprise an illustration of the work, descriptive information, comprehensive provenance, exhibition history and bibliography. In addition, the book will include critical essays about the oeuvre and an extensive chronology.

 

The project is supported by the Patrick Heron Trust.

 

About the Team

Dr Andrew Wilson, the author and editor of the catalogue raisonné, is an independent art historian and curator. From 2006–2021 he was Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate, before which he was Deputy Editor at Art Monthly. While researching his PhD on Patrick Heron and British Abstract Painting 1945–1965, he interviewed the artist many times and had access to his extensive archive.

 

Among the major exhibitions Andrew has curated are Conceptual Art in Britain (Tate Britain 2016), David Hockney (Tate Britain 2017-18) and Patrick Heron (Tate St Ives 2018-19). He is the author of Richard Hamilton Swingeing London 67 (Afterall/MIT Press 2012), Patrick Heron: Early and Late Garden Paintings (Tate Publishing 2001), and Patrick Heron (Tate Publishing 2018).

 

Dr Robert James Sutton, assistant editor of the catalogue raisonné, is an independent art historian, lecturer and curator. He has taught at a number of universities, including NYU London, Coventry, Oxford Brookes and Leicester. While at the latter, he co-curated the rehang of Leicester Museum and Art Gallery’s 20th century collection. He is currently working on the book Henry Moore: Five Public Artworks, 1936-51.