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Allen Jones

Allen Jones is one of Britain’s most distinguished artists from the pioneering Pop Movement, with paintings and sculptures in many important international collections, including the Tate Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, the Museum of 20th-Century Art in Vienna, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

He represented the UK at the Paris Biennale in 1963, where he received the Prix des Jeunes Artistes.  In 1978 – 79 there was a painting and sculpture retrospective of his work at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Serpentine Gallery, London and in 1995 there was a retrospective exhibition of his complete graphic works at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, which for three years toured the world under the auspices of the British Council.

In 2007-8 solo exhibitions of his work were exhibited simultaneously at Tate Britain and The Royal Academy of Arts.  A large retrospective exhibition, “Off the Wall”, showing sculptures, paintings, prints and drawings from 55 years of his career, toured through Europe, with further venues in South America.    

Commissions have included large scale mural projects for Fogal in Basel and Zurich, and two major London restaurants; monumental steel sculptures for London Bridge City, the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, Taikoo Place in Hong Kong and Glaxo SmithKline world headquarters, London.  In 2006 he installed 10 metre high sculpture commissions for the Yuzi Paradise Sculpture parks in Shanghai and in Guilin, China. Two large works have more recently been acquired by the city of St Louis, USA and the Barada Foundation in Lisbon.  

In 2008 a large scale, 5-piece sculpture was commissioned and completed at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, and two suspended pieces have been installed at the headquarters of Allen & Overy in Spitalfields. Additionally, he has undertaken many private sculpture commissions in the UK and the USA and is currently working on a monumental commissioned piece for a site in London measuring 9m x 20m x 9m .

He has designed for the Royal Ballet and the Ballet Rambert in England, and for West Deutsche Television in Cologne and Thames Television in the UK.  Additionally, he has designed three books and had a further four books published about his work.

He was elected a Royal Academician in 1986, and was a Trustee of the British Museum from 1990 to 1999, now an Emeritus Trustee.  In 2007 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts at Southampton Solent University.

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Selected artworks

  • Allen Jones, Belle of Shoreditch (Triptych), 2021

    Allen Jones Belle of Shoreditch (Triptych), 2021

    Industrial oil enamel plywood comp. board
    220 x 260 x 51 cm
    86 1/2 x 102 1/2 x 20 1/2 in

  • Allen Jones, Practice Makes Perfect, 2020

    Allen Jones Practice Makes Perfect, 2020

    Diptych
    152.5 x 305 cm
    60 1/8 x 120 1/8 in

  • Allen Jones, No Show, 2019-2020

    Allen Jones No Show, 2019-2020

    Oil on canvas
    152.4 x 152.4 cm
    60 x 60 in

  • Allen Jones, Boutique (Waiting on Table with Cape), 2015-2019

    Allen Jones Boutique (Waiting on Table with Cape), 2015-2019

    Composite figure, polished stainless steel base
    Overall H 205 x W 51 x D 61 cm
    Base H 51.4 x w 51 x D 61 cm
    Figure H 153.6 x 34.3 x 63 cm
    Overall H 80 3/4 x W20 1/8 x D 24 1/8 in
    Base H 20 1/4 x W 20 1/8 x D 25 1/8 in
    Figure H 60 1/2 x W 13 1/2 D 24 3/4 in

  • Allen Jones, Kind of Blue, 2015

    Allen Jones Kind of Blue, 2015

    Oil on canvas, oil enamel on composite figure and wooden base
    Canvas 243.84 x 203.2 cm
    Canvas 96 x 80 in
    Figure 201 x 38 x 65 cm
    Figure 79 1/8 x 15 x 25 5/8 in

  • Allen Jones, The Studio, 1985

    Allen Jones The Studio, 1985

    Oil on canvas
    244 x 233 cm
    96 x 92 in

  • Allen Jones, The Music of Time, 1984-1985

    Allen Jones The Music of Time, 1984-1985

    Oil on canvas
    183 x 183 cm
    72 1/8 x 72 1/8 in

Videos

  • Allen Jones, le fétichiste de l’art britannique | Tracks ARTE
  • In conversation: Allen Jones and Fabrice Hergott

Gallery exhibitions

Museum exhibitions

Selected press