Catherine Yarrow : Not What I Want

24 Oct-22 Nov 2012

Overview

A British Surrealist in London, Paris and New York. This Autumn we will exhibit, for the first time, drawings, watercolours, monotypes and etchings by the artist Catherine Yarrow (1904-1990). These represent fragments of an oeuvre whose totality spanned more than 50 years, from her escape in the early 1920’s from what she experienced as the stifling conformity of English life to the excitement and excesses of the art world of Paris, where she spent most of the interwar years. Before the invading German armies she fled from France via Spain and Portugal to America, returning to England in 1948. It was only then that, with the exception of a few forays to a much chastened Paris, she felt finally able to accept and settle in her homeland, and to establish a new circle of English friends, admirers and pupils.