
Euan Uglow
The Blue Towel, 1982-83
oil on canvas laid on plywood
25 x 25 cm; 9 ¾ x 9 ½ in
JC77
© the estate of Euan Uglow / Bridgeman Images
Provenance
with Browse & Darby Ltd, London.Sir Simon Hornby.
W.H. Smith Group Collection; Phillips, London, 17 November 1998, lot 67, where purchased.
Exhibitions
London, Browse & Darby, Euan Uglow: paintings & drawings, May - June 1983, no. 23.London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Euan Uglow, July - September 1989 (not numbered), lent by the W H Smith Group Collection.
London, Christie’s King Street, The New Patrons, January 1992, no. 140.
Mexico City, British Council, Museo de Arte Moderno, La Mirada Fuerte, Pintura Figurativa de Londres, April - July 2000, no. 71.
Kendal, Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Euan Uglow, July - October 2003, no. 27.
Compton Verney, Art Gallery, The Artist’s Studio, September - December 2009, not numbered in catalogue; this exhibition toured to University of East Anglia, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, February - May 2010.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: Revealed, Feburary - April 2014.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: Revisiting the Jerwood Painting Prize, October 2015 - January 2016.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, The Painter Behind the Canvas, May - October 2016.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, October 2016 - January 2017.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: 25 Years, January - April 2018.
London, Sotheby's, Jerwood Collection: 25, 8-12 June 2018.
Sheffield, Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield, Darkness into Light: The Emotional Power of Art, October 2018 - January 2019
Gorssel, Museum MORE, Euan Uglow: Painting Perception, May - September 2019.
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, A Curator's Choice, May-August 2021.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Jerwood Collection; 25, 2018, p.32, illustrated.Exhibition catalogue, Euan Uglow: paintings & drawings, London, Browse & Darby, 1983, illustrated.
L. Checketts, ‘Euan Uglow’, Modern Painters, summer, 1989, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 104-5.
Exhibition catalogue, Euan Uglow, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1989, illustrated.
I. Johnstone, ‘Some British Figurative Art’, Antique Collector, September 1989, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, The New Patrons, London, Christie’s King Street, 1992, p. 61, illustrated.
Euan Uglow, London, Browse & Darby, 1998, illustrated.
C. Lampert, Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 154, no. 319, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, G. Waterford (ed.), The Artist’s Studio, Compton Verney, Art Gallery, 2009, p. 26.
Collection catalogue, Jerwood Collection, London, 2012, p. 35, illustrated p. 24.
Exhibition catalogue, Gorssel, Musuem MORE, Euan Uglow; Painting Perception, 2019, p. 90, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Euan Uglow, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, 2024, p.45, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Euan Uglow, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, 2024, p.10