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Oct 2, 2008 · John Lenkiewicz next to a self-portrait of his brother Robert at the Ben Uri Lenkiewicz work back in the frame at new exhibition THERE was an unusual homecoming at an art gallery on Thursday for an artist who left Hampstead to become one of Britain’s most significant painters.
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DOES any reader know a shoplifter? I was haunted by this question this week after I had bought a waistcoat at the Edinburgh Woollen Mill shop in Edinburgh. When I was about to put it on at home I discovered the assistant had forgotten to remove the plastic security tag. In a surreal conversation when I rang the shop – it would have made a good scri...
I HEARD an almost unbelievable tale at the funeral of Parliament Hill historian Pete Richards this week. Pete, the writer and political campaigner who lived in Highgate Road, recently passed away, aged 85. Friends and family gathered at the St Marylebone cemetery on Tuesday to celebrate his life, and among many stories of his fascinating life I hea...
DRAWN by an extravagantly blooming camellia in a Highgate garden, 104-year-old Hetty Bower somehow slipped and fell badly on the pavement in Highgate this week. This story could have had an unhappy ending if it hadn’t been for the treatment she received at the Whittington A&E department, I hear. They did every possible examination, including scans,...
Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz (31 December 1941 – 5 August 2002) was one of South West England's most celebrated artists of modern times. Perennially unfashionable in high art circles, his work was nevertheless popular with the public.
Feb 11, 2018 · When Lenkiewicz was alive, his Barbican studio, with its dark-walled interiors, was a place of pilgrimage for those who had discovered the work of this maverick showman and his collections...
Robert Lenkiewicz: Larger than life and death. He had thousands of lovers, faked his own demise, and kept an embalmed corpse in his home. Yes, Robert Lenkiewicz was one of the great eccentrics ...
Dec 17, 2021 · Robert’s career saw him create a range of British realism that drew on everything from Old Masters to Augustus John and Walter Sickert, a body of work that married modernism and realism with political murals, a huge volume of “outsider” art with a long-term impact only beginning to be recognised.
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Robert Lenkiewicz was raised in the Hotel Shemtov in Cricklewood, London, which had effectively become a home for elderly Jews. The influence of such an environment seems to have been profound and not just on Robert: his younger brother John trained as a gerontologist.
