Frank Bowling wins the Wolfgang Hahn Prize
Frank Bowling was born in Guyana in 1934, but moved at the age of 19 to London, where he studied at the Royal College of Art with David Hockney and R. B. Kitaj. He developed his career over more than six decades, alternating between London and New York, and his works are present in more than 50 collections around the world.
Throughout his working life, the octogenarian artist has exhibited in a variety of museums and galleries, with highlights including the exhibition Mappa Mundi, which took place in the Haus der Kunst, in Munich, between 2017 and 2019, and the retrospective at the Tate Britain, in London, in 2019. In October 2021, the artist was announced as the winner of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, which will be presented in November 2022.
The two works by Frank Bowling belonging to the CAM Collection are currently on display at the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, in Cascais, as part of the exhibition CAM’s British Art Collection, where they can be seen until the end of January 2022 along with another 22 works from this noteworthy section.
The large-scale triptych A Mirror, Three Windows and a Door (1962) follows a line of work that the artist started in 1960; Beggar (1963) is part of a series of paintings with the same title which he produced following his first return to Guyana since his move to the United Kingdom. These works were purchased by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation shortly after they were made.
