Michael Andrews (30 October 1928 – 19 July 1995) was a British painter.
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Michael Andrews was born in Norwich, England, the second child of Thomas Victor Andrews and his wife Gertrude Emma Green. He completed his two years' National service between 1947 and 1949, nineteen months of which was spent in Egypt.[1] From 1949-53 he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under William Coldstream, Lucian Freud, William Townsend and Lawrence Gowing. Fellow students and friends there included Victor Willing, Keith Sutton, Diana Cumming, Euan Uglow and Craigie Aitchison. In 1953 he spent six months in Italy after receiving a Rome Scholarship in Painting.
From 1958 he taught at the Slade and Chelsea School of Art. In 1958/9 he spent time at the Digswell Arts Trust, sharing a studio with Patrick Swift. In 1959 his painting A Man Who Suddenly Fell Over was acquired by the Tate Gallery. In the early 1960s he was involved with Swift's ‘X’ magazine[2] (other artists included Bacon, Giacometti and Auerbach). In the 1960s he painted works showing parties; later, the "Lights" series presented views from the air. Andrews was much impressed by a visit to Ayers Rock in 1983, but the works he produced toward the end of his life are of scenes from Scotland and London. In 1981 he moved to the village of Saxlingham Nethergate in his home county of Norfolk. He was a member of the Norwich Twenty Group.
He painted Sax AD 832[3] in 1982 to celebrate 1,150 years of the village's history. The painting was auctioned at Christie's London on June 20, 2007 and was sold for £692,000. Major exhibitions of Andrews' works were held by the Arts Council in 1981 and Tate Britain in 2001.
In 1994 he underwent an operation for cancer. He died on 19 July 1995. He is buried in Glenartney in Perthshire.
Michael Andrews played a deaf-mute in Lorenza Mazzetti's Free Cinema film Together, alongside Eduardo Paolozzi (1955).
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