John Golding
Works available
Sprite
2001-3
Acrylic on canvas
127 × 165 cm / 4ft2 × 5ft5 ins
Biography
(1929–)
Born in Hastings, England in 1929, John Golding was educated in Mexico and Canada, before returning to England, where he researched his PhD at the Courtauld Institute, London. Despite his brilliance as an academic and curator, Golding's first love is painting. Over the years, his work has moved from the figurative to the abstract, though his paintings are still rooted in the human figure: 'metaphors for the body' as he described them. The New Art Centre held an exhibition of Golding's paintings in 2003, his first for nearly ten years following his triumph as a senior curator of the MatissePicasso exhibition at Tate Modern in 2002. He has spent much of his life teaching at the Courtauld Institute, where he was both a lecturer and reader, and the Royal College of Art, where he was made Senior Tutor of the Painting School in 1981.
Golding is an international specialist on Cubism and has written many publications including the 1959 Cubism 1907 –1914, Picasso in Retrospect of 1973 and Matisse and Cubism (1978).