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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
FLOWERS ON A CHAIR WITH PIPE AND PAPER
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Christopher Wood was born in Knowsley to Doctor Lucius and Clare Wood. He was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, then briefly flirted with medicine and architecture at Liverpool University before pursuing an artistic career.
At Liverpool University, Wood met Augustus John, who encouraged him to be a painter. The French collector Alphonse Kahn invited him to Paris in 1920. From 1921 he trained as a painter at the Academie Julian* in Paris, where he met Picasso, Jean Coctea (showing 500 of 6316 characters). |
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