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Mark King

Mark King (1931 - 2014) was active/lived in New York, California.  Mark King is known for Impresssionist landscape and portrait artist.

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Mark King, a champion of Impressionism and the École de Paris, was born in Bombay in 1931 of British parents. He is the product of an exotic and privileged upbringing in India, where he lived until the age of sixteen during the tumultuous last days of the British Raj. In 1948, following graduation from La Martiniere College in Calcutta, where his focus had been botany as well as art, King sailed to England to attend Bournemouth College of Art, having determined to pursue painting, sculpture, architecture and theatre design. He subsequently spent seven years as Resident scenic designer at the Oxford Playhouse Theatre, but in 1961 decided to concentrate solely on painting and moved to Paris to study at the École des Beaux Arts and the Louvre.

When King lived in Paris and Italy during the 1960's, he was a plein-air painter, working outdoors in order to study and describe the effects of light and atmosphere like the Barbizon School and Impressionist painters before him. He moved to   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4739 characters.]  Artist bio

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