DALLAS SIMPSON: Artist biography - Auction prices & values - Dallas Simpson on Wikipedia - Signature - Picture Gallery - Pictures for sale - Signature - Dealers Artist photo - Artist video - Dallas Simpson websites - Audrey Dallas Simpson (1925-1984) was one of the most famous English artists of the 1960s and she achieved her phenomenal success mainly through sales of prints of her work which, at the height of her fame, literally sold in their millions, rivalling sales of other popular print artists of the period such as Tretchikoff. Everyone in the land is familiar with the wonderful images she created, usually featuring slightly sad big eyed urchin children, a style which many tried but failed to copy successfully. Her style is now known as Sixties Kitsch and with Retro now increasingly popular, Dallas Simpson's original paintings, from which the prints were made, are now both rare and highly collectable. Dallas Simpson was, indeed, the Queen of Kitsch.
The artist was originally from London. But in the Sixties, at the height of her fame, she and her husband, they had no children of their own, decided to move to a caravan by the sea in West Sussex on the South Coast of England. There, the couple often worked together as a team, her husband preparing her canvases for her. Otherwise, she painted on board. The public clamoured for prints of her work (and still do). Her principal publishers were Felix Rosenstiel's Widow & Son, Frost & Reed (now part of Rosenstiel's) and A.W. Vivian Mansell (no longer in business). A measure of her success is that the Rosenstiel's collection of her work is still in print. She also painted under a number of pseudonyms including Emma Louise and Kelita with a subtle change of style in the painting but with the same subject matter.
Some of her biographers have unkindly suggested that sometimes she would be prepared to sell her original paintings, including the valuable reproduction rights, for immediate cash, a practice that was seriously frowned upon by her publishers, especially as the money was allegedly spent immediately on her beloved gin.
Overall, the work of Dallas Simpson was and still is much loved by the whole country. Her images are instantly recognisable and everyone remembers them with great affection. They were, indeed, an integral part of the Sixties.
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MORE ON KITSCH ART & KITSCH ARTISTS (Sometimes referred to as MASS MARKET ART) :
Find out more about your other favourite popular KITSCH ARTISTS working in the second half of the Twentieth Century as profiled in WORLD ART AND ARTISTS:
Lou Shabner - Dallas Simpson - Vladimir Tretchikoff - Margaret Keane - J H Lynch - Giovanni Bragolin - Myrle Medeiros - Florence Kruger.
DALLAS SIMPSON: PAINTINGS FOR SALE:
DALLAS SIMPSON UK Kitsch art ORIGINAL OIL Signed Framed
Authentic Big Eyed Girl Sixties painting oil on canvas
We are very pleased to offer you this superb original oil painting by Dallas Simpson, whose atmospheric images of big eyed urchin children dominated the popular art world in the 1960s and whose ubiquitous prints came to epitomise that whole era. But this is a genuine oil painting on canvas (not a print), signed by the artist and very handsomely framed. It is entitled: "The Innocence of Youth" and depicts one of the artist's big eyed cute young ladies holding a bunch of daffodils. There is an old gallery label on the back which reveals that it was painted in 1964 when the artist was at the peak of her powers.
It is exceptionally rare for a Dallas Simpson original painting to come on to the market and when one does, it is always highly sought after. Again, please do not confuse a Dallas Simpson print with an original Dallas Simpson original painting like this one. Here is a rare chance to own one of her originals.
We are very pleased to offer you this superb original oil painting by Dallas Simpson, whose atmospheric images of big eyed urchin children dominated the popular art world in the 1960s and whose ubiquitous prints came to epitomise that whole era. But this is a genuine oil painting on canvas (not a print), signed by the artist and very handsomely framed. It is entitled: "The Innocence of Youth" and depicts one of the artist's big eyed cute young ladies holding a bunch of daffodils. There is an old gallery label on the back which reveals that it was painted in 1964 when the artist was at the peak of her powers.
The overall size of this lovely painting including the exceptionally handsome gilded frame is approximately 65 cm. by 75 cm. The image itself measures approximately 50 cm. by 62 cm. This means that this lovely painting is of an ideal size to grace the walls of any discerning home. The painting is signed by the artist on the front at bottom right. Overall the painting is in very good condition and the paint surface perfectly intact, undamaged with no flaking. The colours remain very bright. There is one small area of reinforcement to the canvas at the back but this is no way evident from the front. The frame almost certainly also dates from 1964 and has suffered some minor wear and tear over that time but is still in generally good order and very pleasing. It certainly does not need replacing. As mentioned above, there is an old gallery label on the back of the frame which reveals its title and date (see photo). The picture is ready to hang.
We are offering this beautiful original Dallas Simpson painting to our customers on a worldwide basis and we will be happy to ship accordingly, securely packaged and insured. Here at last is a rare opportunity for all Dallas Simpson admirers to own one of her original paintings, and an absolutely classic example of her work.
Price: £99.00 or near offer. SOLD
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