Vasari Art Codex

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Selected Works12

Night Life 2

1951

Swings

1953

Nude Seated on a Folding Chair

1953

Head of Leon Kossoff

1954

E.O.W. on her Blue Eiderdown VII

1963

Head of E.O.W. II

1964

Head of Gerda Boehm

1965

Mornington Crescent

1969

Head of J.Y.M.

1984

After Rubens' Samson and Delilah

1993

Head of David Landau

2012

Head of Jake

2014

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Leicester Polytechnic

Royal College of Art

London, UK

Saint Martin's School Art

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