FRED CRESS (1938 - 2009)
Limited Edition Colour Lithograph
Title: Fighting Cocks, 1988
Signed: Lower Image
Edition: Edition 71/97
Edition: Edition 71/97
Sheet Size: 89cm x 63cm
Art Condition: Very Good to Excellent for Age (Never Framed Before - Minimal Crease which will not show when Framed)
Unframed.
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Biography
Frederick Harold Cress AM, was a British painter who migrated to Australia and won the Archibald Prize in 1988 with a portrait of John Beard.
Cress was born in Poona, British Raj, but went to England with his parents in 1948, when he was ten. He was educated at the Birmingham College of Art in England, and migrated to Australia in 1962 as a "ten pound Pom".
He started his career painting figuratively but became well known for his abstract work in the late 60s and 70s. He returned to figurative painting in the late 80s after he won the Archibald Prize with a portrait of his friend and colleague, John Beard. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2003 for services to visual arts.
In 1990 Cress bought a 17th-century stone farmhouse in Southern Burgundy, France. He spent the next 20 years of his life living half the year in France and half the year in Sydney with his partner, the photographer, Victoria Fernandez. Many of Cress's later works have visual references to his time spent in France.
