Renos Loizou

Reclining nude female

Rare artist proof

A rare artist's proof screen print in colours depicting a reclining nude female

Signed in red to the bottom right and dated '91 with artist proof to the bottom left

Framed and glazed

Print measures approx; 83 x 59 cm

Frame measures approx; 113 x 87 cm

Renos Loizou was born in Cyprus. He lives and works in his adoptive town of Cambridge, where he has permanent exhibitions in numerous Cambridge college collections, as well as at the famous Jim Ede Collection at Kettles Yard where he had a one man show in 1983 and he has frequently been exhibited at the Royal Academy.

In his monumental nudes pose no such threat. Reminiscent of the nudes of Picasso and Matisse (Blue Nude, 1907), but essentially Loizou, they flow magnificently across the handmade paper as though they were landscapes themselves.  With confident economy of line, he manipulates perspective, making his solitary nudes seem about to burst out of the confines of their boundaries, leaving their vivid blue backgrounds behind.