Fyffe Christie

ARTIST

Christie, Fyffe

1918 – 1979

Painter, draughtsman, muralist and teacher, born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, son of a commercial artist and illustrator, George Christie. From the age of 12 Christie lived in Glasgow, from 1934 working in a solicitor’s office, then became an apprentice lithographic draughtsman and during World War II served in the Scottish Rifles, resulting work finding its way into the Imperial War Museum. Christie studied at Glasgow School of Art, 1946-50, mural painting under Walter Pritchard. He gained the Newberry Medal in 1950 and a post-diploma year’s study. After a period teaching and a six-month travelling scholarship taken on the continent Christie resumed teaching and completed many murals, including Glasgow University and the Iona Community House. With his wife Eleanor, a sculptor, he moved to London in 1957 and again taught, while completing murals and much other work. Christie and his wife held a show at Woodlands Gallery in 1979, shortly before he died. This showed him to be a painter with a rich palette, notable for his female nude studies, as well as a consummate draughtsman. His widow did much to promote Christie’s work  after his death. There were exhibitions at Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow, and Fairhurst Gallery in 1988, preceded by a show of his drawings at Glasgow School of Art. He was included in Children & Childhood at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, in 1989; there was a large show of his schoolchildren drawings at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, 1991; and further small exhibitions at Blackheath Concert Halls and in Norwich. In 2004, there was an exhibition at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, accompanied by a monograph, Nature and Humanity, The Work of Fyffe Christie 1918-1979, published by Sansom & Company Ltd.

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Fyffe Christie

ARTIST

Christie, Fyffe

1918 – 1979

Painter, draughtsman, muralist and teacher, born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, son of a commercial artist and illustrator, George Christie. From the age of 12 Christie lived in Glasgow, from 1934 working in a solicitor’s office, then became an apprentice lithographic draughtsman and during World War II served in the Scottish Rifles, resulting work finding its way into the Imperial War Museum. Christie studied at Glasgow School of Art, 1946-50, mural painting under Walter Pritchard. He gained the Newberry Medal in 1950 and a post-diploma year’s study. After a period teaching and a six-month travelling scholarship taken on the continent Christie resumed teaching and completed many murals, including Glasgow University and the Iona Community House. With his wife Eleanor, a sculptor, he moved to London in 1957 and again taught, while completing murals and much other work. Christie and his wife held a show at Woodlands Gallery in 1979, shortly before he died. This showed him to be a painter with a rich palette, notable for his female nude studies, as well as a consummate draughtsman. His widow did much to promote Christie’s work  after his death. There were exhibitions at Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow, and Fairhurst Gallery in 1988, preceded by a show of his drawings at Glasgow School of Art. He was included in Children & Childhood at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, in 1989; there was a large show of his schoolchildren drawings at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, 1991; and further small exhibitions at Blackheath Concert Halls and in Norwich. In 2004, there was an exhibition at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, accompanied by a monograph, Nature and Humanity, The Work of Fyffe Christie 1918-1979, published by Sansom & Company Ltd.

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ARTWORK FOR SALE

SKU: 5587

Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)

Dance of the Blessed Spirits, circa 1950

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Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)

Annunciation, circa 1960

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ARCHIVED WORKS

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Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)

The Artist’s wife reading, August 1953
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Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)

Standing nude, full length three quarter view, circa 1950
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Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)

Head and shoulders of Eleanor, the artist’s future wife, with a wolley hat, eyes lowered, circa 1950
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Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)

Eleanor with red neck scart, circa 1953
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Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)

Disabled ‘Panther ‘ August 1944
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Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)

Still-life set up in the flat , circa 1956
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Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)

In the Piazza, Siena, circa 1951
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Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)

View from the Artist’s digs, overlooking the Botanic Gardens Glasgow
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Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)

The Golden Age – study for a mural, circa 1960
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Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)

Dance of the Blessed Spirits – study for a mural, circa 1960