Carel Victor Morlais Weight (10 September 1908 – 13 August 1997[1]) was an English painter.[2]
Weight was born in Paddington in 1908. He studied at the Hammersmith School of Art and Goldsmiths College. His first solo exhibition was held in the Cooling Gallery in 1933 and later exhibited in some major London galleries and throughout the UK.
During the Second World War, Weight served with the Royal Engineers and Army Education Corps. As an Official War Artist in 1945, he worked in Austria, Greece, and Italy. In 1947, he began teaching at the Royal College of Art, and was professor of painting there from 1967. He retired in 1973.
He was appointed a CBE in 1962 and awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Edinburgh University in 1982. Some of his work is owned by the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Many of his paintings showed suburban settings in which unexpected human dramas occurred. His work was sometimes humorous and sometimes angry. Each painting's location was chosen specifically for its abstract structure and this made his work very interesting.
Weight died on 13 August 1997 at the age of 88.