Alfred Cohen

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Alfred Cohen was born in Chicago in 1920. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago but left to enlist in the US Army Air Forces. In 1949, Cohen was awarded a travel fellowship which led him to work in England where he eventually settled. He also studied in Paris at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière, while exhibiting his work in France and Germany. Cohen’s aesthetic was particularly influenced by Raoul Dufy, Marc Chagall, and Georges Rouault. In the mid-1970s Cohen took up printmaking, producing hand-coloured etchings. His subjects varied from landscapes to city scenes, to still life studies, and theatre characters.  

Cohen had nine solo exhibitions in London, and also showed in Heidelberg, Hannover, Paris, Toronto, Montreal, Tokyo, and Cape Town. He had two-person exhibitions with Josef Herman, Patrick Hall, and Mary Newcomb. Anita Brookner wrote in Burlington Magazine that Cohen was 'a fresh and accessible artist of considerable accomplishment, whose abstract impressionist compositions were enlivened by an acute charm of colour'.

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'OVERY STAITHE' SIZE: H 4" x W 7" Result: £120 Date: 07/09/2022
'FOLKESTONE' SIZE: H 10" x W 13" Result: £120 Date: 20/11/2024
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