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Edward Wolfe

Edward Wolfe (1897 - 1982) was active/lived in England, South Africa.  Edward Wolfe is known for Semi-abstract figure, still life, landscape and portrait painting and drawing, some cubism.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wolfe moved to England during the First World War where he studied at the Slade School of Art* from 1916-1918. At the Slade he met and became friends with Nina Hamnet and Roger Fry who invited him to join the Omega Workshops*, a design enterprise founded by members of the Bloomsbury Group* and closely associated with the Hogarth Press.

Wolfe  had his first solo show in Johannesburg in 1920 and went on to exhibit widely both in England and internationally. In the 1920s he became known as 'England's Matisse' in reference to his strikingly colourful post-impressionistic portraits.

His success owed much to his involvement with the London Group of artists and his association with art critic and painter Roger Fry and the writer Osbert Sitwell. Wolfe's work is held by the Tate Gallery, the Royal Academy and the National Portrait Gallery, London as well as numerous other public and private collections.


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