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Olga Davenport

Olga Davenport (1915 - 2008) was active/lived in South Africa, England.  Olga Davenport is known for Naive landscape and still life painting, film actress.

OLGA DAVENPORT (1915-2008)
 "I went into the Gallery last week and I thought again how beautiful your pictures look, quiet, personal, bold without aggression, lyrical colour, you have arrived at something very much your own, they are right. Pictures are either right or wrong and no one can really say why" (letter from William Scott to Olga Davenport, hand-written and dated 6th May 1969). This is how William Scott describes Olga Davenport's paintings at her first one-woman show at the Piccadilly Gallery in 1969.

Olga Davenport was not merely an accomplished artist, or a collector; but her deep friendships with British artists from the 1950s onward place Davenport as a key and perhaps surprisingly influential figure in the British art scene of the time. In collecting and painting, Davenport was intensely independent and from an early age she knew her per-destined path was to become a painter.

Born in South Africa in 1915, she first exhibited a painting   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3461 characters.]  Artist bio

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