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Price includes deckchair frame and sling.

About the Artist

Fleur Cowles is a remarkable woman of many talents. After success as Associate Editor of popular American magazines LOOK and QUICK in the 1950’s, she created and edited FLAIR magazine and the FLAIR book, both of which made publishing history.

The woman who titled her autobiography “She Made Friends and Kept Them”, has a gift for friendship, simply recognising talent when she sees it. She spotted the potential of pop art pioneer Sir Peter Blake, she took Lucien Freud to America when he was still a student and persuaded the illiterate Streeter Blair to paint. She knew Picasso and was a close friend of Braque and Dali which led to her writing an authorised biography, ‘The Case of Salvador Dali’.

Produced on her lap wherever she happens to be, Fleur’s pictures have flowed in a dreamlike stream of almost surrealistic images; big cats idling in small boats and moonlit gardens amid butterflies, birds and over-sized flowers. It is a world of magical realism entirely without menace. As Fleur says “Why shouldn’t an elephant or a hippopotamus perch in a tree of life?”

Paintings by Fleur Cowles have been exhibited alongside works by Dali, Magritte and Max Ernst, and displayed in scores of solo shows around the world.

She has also written several books, including ‘Friends and Memories’, ‘The Flower Game’, ‘People as Animals’, ‘An Artist’s Journey’, and ‘The Best of Flair’.

Fleur Cowles is married to Tom Meyer, CBE, and resides in one of London’s celebrated eighteenth-century homes.