Exhibitions
Leicester Galleries, London "Imaginative Paintings by Merlyn Evans" Feb 1949, no.19Heffer Gallery, Cambridge "New Paintings by Francis Rose, Cecil Collins and Merlyn Evans" Jan - Feb 1950, no.48
The Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, "Paintings and Drawings by Merlyn Evans" July 1952, no.8
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London: Merlyn Evans Paintings, Drawings and etchings 1956, no. 22
New Art Centre, London "Merlyn Evans: Ten Paintings (1930-1955)" Feb-March 1975, no.10
The Tate Gallery, London "The Political Paintings of Merlyn Evans" Mar-Jun 1985, no.14
Literature
Cora J Gordon, "Commentary" The Studio, May 1959, p.154Mel Gooding, Merlyn Evans, Thames & Hudson, 2004, illustrated p.67
In this major work the analogy is clear; two gleeful humanoidfigures leer over the chequered game board, a game of war, withall the horrifying consequences for the innocent pawns sweptaside in a strategic battle for power.In a review of the artists first retrospective at The WhitechapelGallery in 1953, where The Chess Players was shown, the artcritic Mervyn Levy wrote:(Evans) has learned how to affect situations of excruciatingpsychological import. Indeed the dramatic intensity of Evan’s workis unparalleled in the history of European painting: and if the moodhas been frequently of menace and disquiet, that is only to beexpected of an intellect, sensitive as an exposed nerve, which hasendured all the hells to which the soul of western man has beensubjected in modern times.
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