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Sandra Blow

Blow was in her time a pioneering British abstract painter of the
1950s. Her work expressed a deliberate informality. Her first sale was
to Sir Roland Penrose. In 1960 she had won the first Guggenheim
Award. Before this, she enjoyed one of the first retrospectives at Tate
St Ives,
airing there paintings worked on in Cornwall where she had lived, works
like ‘Cornwall’ (1950) and ‘Space and Matter’ (1955). In 1961 she was
selected to exhibit at the Venice Biennale, She taught for 14 years at
the Royal College of Art, becoming an honorary fellow there

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