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Michael Andrews first became celebrated in the early 1960s for a series of paintings recording his fascination with the party lifestyle of bohemian London. He did not exhibit widely during his lifetime, yet his friend, the painter Frank Auerbach, observed that he 'only ever painted masterpieces'.

Biography
1928 Born in Norwich
1946 Took lessons on Saturdays in oil painting at Norwich Art School
1947 - 1949 After being accepted at the Slade School of Art, he entered the army to do two years of National Service, the last nineteen months were spent in Egypt
1952 Second prize in the Slade Summer Competition
1949 - 1953 Studied at the Slade School of Art where he was taught by William Coldstream
1953 Awarded the Scholarship for painting to the British School, Rome
1959 Taught at Norwich School of Art
1960 Taught at Chelsea School of Art London
1963 - 1966 Taught at the Slade School of Fine Art
1988 Served as a Trustee of the National Gallery
1989 Made a Fellow of University College, London
Died

Exhibitions
2000 - 2001 'The School of London and Their Friends: the Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians', Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, USA. Travelled to Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA (cat.)
2001 ‘Michael Andrews’, Tate Britain, London, UK (cat.)
2000 ‘Michael Andrews: Luces’, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (cat.)
2000 'Painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000', National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
1998 - 1999 'L'ecole de Londres: de Bacon à Bevan', Paris, Foundation Dina Vierny - Musée Maillol, France (cat.)
1999 'Michael Andrews, William Coldstream: Myserious Conventionality', Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (Cat.)
1998 ‘Michael Andrew’s: The Thames Paintings’, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
1995 - 1996 'From London' (Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj)', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK; Musée Nationale d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxumbourg; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Fundacío Caixa de Catalunya, La Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain
1995 'Identity and Alerity: figures of the body 1895/1995', La Biennale di Venezia, 46. Espositione internazionale d'arte, Palazzo Grassi and Museo Correr, Venice, Italy (cat.)
1994 'Dobbel Virkelighet / Double Reality': The School of London', Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kuns, Oslo, Norway (cat.)
1991 - 1992 'The Delectable Mountain: The Ayres Rock Series and other Landscapes Paintings', touring exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK travelled to: Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris, France; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK; Grey Art Gallery & Study Centre, New York, USA; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK and returning to London, UK (cat.)
1992 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy, London, UK (cat.)
1986 'Rock of Ages Cleft for Me', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
1981 'Eight Figurative Painters', Yale Centre for British Art, USA
1981 'Retrospective Exhibition', organized by the Arts Council, Haywood Gallery, London, UK. Travelling to; Fruitmarket Gallery and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. (cat.)
1978 'Michael Andrews: paintings 1977-78', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
1977 'Michael Andrews', James Kirkman's House, London, UK
1974 'Michael Andrews, Lights Series', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
1963 'Michael Andrews', Beaux Arts Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
1958 'Michael Andrews', Beaux Arts Gallery, London, UK (cat.)