Tilson, Pyramid, 1974, oil on wood relief, 74 x 67 x 3 in, 188 x 170

Tilson, Conjunction Peschi Catonis, 2003, oil on canvas on wood relief, 54 1-4 x 54 1-4 in., 138 x 138 cm, 312973

Joe Tilson
Conjunction Peschi Catonis, 2003
oil on canvas on wood relief
54 1/4 x 54 1/4 in., 138 x 138 cm

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Artist Joe Tilson Exhibition, Art for Sale and Biography

In celebration of Joe Tilson’s 90th birthday, Marlborough London is pleased to present Joe Tilson’s preparatory drawings for the Royal Academy’s 250th anniversary commemoration flags. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to see Tilson’s works on paper depicting details from The Stones of Venice series which combines images from church facades, geometric patterns on stone flooring, and written inscriptions.

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Joe Tilson at 90

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of the
British artist Joe Tilson RA at the age of 95. 
He died peacefully last week, surrounded by his family in London. Our
heartfelt thoughts are with Jos, his wife, and his children Sophy, Jake and
Anna and his grandchildren.As an artist, Joe’s practice was characterised by an
unorthodox approach, creating bold Pop Art pieces, political works and
elaborate wood reliefs, through to his most recent body of work honouring his
love for Venice and Tuscany. Born in London in 1928, Joe Tilson trained as a carpenter
and a joiner, before going to study at St Martin’s School of Art and the Royal
College of Art at the same time as Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Peter Blake
and Richard Smith. In 1955 he was awarded a Rome Scholarship enabling him to
spend a year in Italy where he was introduced to the classical history and
culture of that country that became so important to his art and life in later
decades. He went on to teach at St Martin’s, the Slade School of Fine Art, the
School of Visual Arts, New York and the Hochschule fuer bildende Kuenste in
Hamburg. 





After winning the
Gulbenkian Foundation Award in 1960, he represented Britain at the 32nd Venice
Biennale in 1964. His first retrospective was held at the Boymans van Beuningen
Museum, Rotterdam (1971), and others followed at the Vancouver Art Gallery (1979),
the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (1984), the Royal Academy, London (2002) and the
Palazzo Doria, Loano, Savona, Italy (2007). His work was also included in Art
&amp; The 60s: This Was Tomorrow, Tate Britain, London (2004); Eye on Europe, MOMA, New York (2006) and The World
Goes Pop, Tate Modern, London (2016).

Joe’s first exhibition at Marlborough, ‘Tilson’, was in 1962.  Since then, he has had more than ten solo
shows at the gallery as well as many group exhibitions and Marlborough has
collaborated with him on numerous projects around the world. From April to June
this year the gallery held two complementary exhibitions which celebrated his
prolific and varied practice as well as the rich artistic community in which he
played a central role. ‘Modest Materials’ provided an overview of Joe’s career,
spanning seven decades, with his most recent body of work completed in 2023.
'A-Z Box of Friends and Family' was a showcase of works by his close friends
and family and served as an eclectic celebration of an extraordinary life. 

Joe’s works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery
in London, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Collection, the Walker Art
Center in Minneapolis, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Stedelijk
Museum in Amsterdam and the Kunsthalle Basel, among others. Joe was elected a
Royal Academician in 1991 and a Senior Academician in 2003.

Joe Tilson, Venice Biennale, Venice, 2019