An important and leading figure in British art over three decades from the mid 1940s until his early death in 1975. He was a painter and sculptor, illustrator, stage and costume designer, and also worked as a writer, critic and broadcaster. A prodigious talent, he was commissioned at the age of 18 to design the production of John Gielgud’s Macbeth in 1942. From then on his work was exhibited at major London galleries, and he is represented in most British museums, with 20 works in the Tate Gallery collection
