Summer New Works

Provenance

The Artist's Estate

Note: British artist Ernest Fedarb was born in 1905 in Canterbury, Kent. He studied at Beckenham School of Art having his first exhibition when he was just 21 with the Royal Society of British Artists. Marrying a fellow artist Daphne Fedarb the pair travelled regularly to France, French landscape becoming a common theme in their work. In 1985 he was made president of the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers. Joint exhibitions of his and Daphne's work were held at the Fine Art Society in 1932 and they were regular exhibitors with the London Group between the wars. Fedarb was friendly with Mark Gertler and Ethelbert White, fellow Hampstead residents.