Description:
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STEPHEN
CONROY
(SCOTTISH
B.1964)







STUDY
FOR
'FIGURE
STUDY'







Signed
and
dated
2011
verso,
oil
on
board







102cm
x
102cm
(40in
x
40in)



















































Notes:
Note:






Stephen
Conroy
is
a
Scottish
painter
and
leading
member
of
the
New
Glasgow
Boys.
Born
in
1964
Conroy,
studied
at
the
Glasgow
School
of
Art
between
1982-7.
He
quickly
gained
recognition
and
achieved
considerable
success
before
beginning
his
post
graduate
study.
In
1986
his
degree
show
sold
out
and
he
also
won
the
first
prize
for
painting
at
the
Royal
Academy''s
British
Institute
Fund
Awards.
Conroy
was
the
youngest
artist
included
in
the
notable
Vigorous
Imagination
exhibition
Edinburgh
in
1987.
Two
years
later
he
also
held
a
solo
exhibition
at
Marlborough
Fine
Art
in
London.
His
work
appears
in
a
number
of
collections
around
Britain
and
abroad,
including
the
Metropolitan
Museum
of
Art
in
New
York
and
the
National
Portrait
Gallery
in
London
and
Edinburgh.


Study
for
''Figure
Study''






is
a
compelling
and
absorbing
portrait.
Conroy''s
isolated
figure
set
against
a
stark
background
echoes
the
work
of
Francis
Bacon
and
Lucian
Freud.
However,
Conroy
diverges
from
their
fleshy
and
raw
style
making
it
his
own.
Conroy''s
portrait
confronts
and
reinterprets
the
history
of
European
portraiture
through
his
focus
on
the
single
isolated
figure
and
simple
yet
intruiging
narrative.