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Painter of portraits and landscapes who in 1925 studied in Paris with André Lhote. In 1932 he settled in Aix-en-Provence, three years later exhibiting in Paris at Galerie Zak. Exhibited at RA Summer Exhibition in 1944, when he was living in London, in 1945 sharing an exhibition at Berkeley Galleries with Henry Moore and Matthew Smith, with whose work Colvile’s had much in common. Exhibited at Salon d’Automne, Paris, in 1953, three years later being included in Wildenstein’s Some Contemporary British Painters show. Colvile’s paintings were acquired for Renand Collection, Paris, and for other collections in England, France and America.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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