Fred Yates oil painting Cornish Harbour Scene

Beautiful and rare Fred Yates painting of a Cornish harbour scene
A lovely work likely depicting St Ives harbour front
Painted with bright colours and Fred Yates naive very early figures
Showing a very strong Alfred Wallis influence
Signed bottom right:  Fred Yates

Beautifully framed to museum quality in bespoke hand painted frame

Medium:  Oil on board
Dimension: 10'' *11''

Provenance:  Estate of Peggy Lewis

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Fred Yates (1922 - 2008)
Fred Yates was born in Urmston a suburb of Manchester in July 1922. After a spell as an insurance clerk he served in the Grenadier Guards during the war and then returned to civvy street as a painter and decorator. Twenty years of teaching followed before at the age of 47 giving up teaching and moving to Cornwall to paint full time and "to avoid becoming a mental wreck". Fred moved frequently painting the daily life and colourful characters around him, becoming more liberal with his paint and gradually managing to place his work in local galleries and sell to tourists. He was interested in painting for the man in the street, wanting his paintings to hang in every room of a house. In his later years Fred moved to France and spent much of his time in moving between locations and painting daily life. He became a master of his fresh and lively, thick impasto scenes. Fred Yates passed away on Monday 7th July 2008 and made his final journey back to be buried at Marazion in Cornwall. St Michaels Mount forming the backdrop to the scene as it had in many of his earlier paintings. In his later years he was increasingly commercially sucessful but is still waiting to receive the critical recognition that his richly colourful and joyous scenes deserve.


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