Reginald Reggie Weston (b. London 1909 - d. Paris 1967) - Oil Lamps, Oil on Cardboard.

Reginald Reggie Weston (b. London 1909 - d. Paris 1967) - Oil Lamps, Oil on Cardboard.

Reginald Reggy Weston (b. London 1909 - d. Paris 1967) - Oil Lamps, Oil on Cardboard.

Signed.

Framed.

32x45cm.

Frame: 48x61cm.

Reginald Weston was born in London (1909 - died in Paris 1967).

He moved at the age of six to Egypt. He visited Paris for the first time at the age of seventeen but the stay was short and he left to live in Palestine in 1936 becoming a journalist and a founding editor of the Jerusalem Post. Weston had already begun to paint and his exhibition at the Schlosser Gallery in Jerusalem in 1939 was a landmark event as the first exhibition of local abstract art in what was then Palestine firmly inscribing him in the avant-garde. Shortly afterward, he took a post teaching at the Bezalel Art School where he remained until deciding to move himself, wife and two children to Paris where he took up the life of a full time artist in the cauldron of creativity that was Montparnasse in the late 1940s & 1950s. His success was immediate, with an exhibition at the Dina Vierny Gallery in 1948. During the 1950s, while maintaining ties with Israel, Weston also exhibited internationally in London, New York, Brussels and Tel-Aviv.

In 1955 Weston took a major commission painting large format murals on panels for the Israeli shipping company Z.I.M. and the Elie de Rothschild Foundation. The works were on paper but set onto formica panels and required the use of factories for fabrication. This was a departure from Weston?s normal small format style of working ? usually on paper.