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These watercolours, dated 1952, were probably made for the 1953 Football and the Fine Arts exhibition of 1953. In the 1920s, Melville was part of the modern art movement in Birmingham, and by 1932, he had held his first one-man show in London, making his name as a pioneer of British Surrealism. During the 1930s, he exhibited in several Surrealist group exhibitions, alongside Picasso, Miro, Dali and other important international artists. After the war, he exhibited at the Hanover Gallery, Birmingham University (where he taught), Zwemmer Galleries. His reputation was greatly enhanced in the 1980s, when the British contribution to Surrealism was fully appreciated. |
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