Fantoni, Barry

Creator details

Name
Fantoni, Barry
Nationality
Italian
Biography
Barry Fantoni is a cartoonist, designer, writer and broadcaster who studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts as a Wedgwood Scholar. He was a member for the satirical magazine, Private Eye’s staff from 1963, a cartoonist for The Listener, 1968-88 and wrote art criticisms for The Times, 1973-77, and was its diary cartoonist from 1983.<br> <br> Fantoni also designed film and television posters and painted a mural at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, 1985. He was chairman of the Chelsea Arts Club, 1978-80. His solo shows included Woodstock Gallery, 1963, Brunel University, 1974, and a retrospective exhibition at the Cadogan Contemporary Gallery in 1991.<br>

Assets (41 in total)

Portrait of Jack Lemmon, illustration for 'The Daily Mirror Colour Supplement', 1964 (gouache on board)
Portrait of  Olivier Messiaen, illustration for 'The Sunday Times', 1970s (gouache on board)
Portrait of William Hardcastle, illustration for 'The Radio Times', 1970s (gouache and pen & ink on board)
Portrait of Beethoven (unfinished)
Portrait of Herbert von Karajan, illustration for 'The Sunday Times', 1970s (gouache on board)
Portrait of Billy Connolly, illustration for 'The Listener', 1970s (gouache on board)
Portrait of Beryl Bainbridge, illustration for 'Cosmopolitan', 1970s (gouache on board)
Portrait of Faith Brown, 1970s (gouache on board)
Portrait of Jack Warner as Dixon of Dock Green, illustration for 'The Listener', 1970s (gouache on board)
Portrait of J.B. Priestley, illustration for 'The Listener', 1970s (gouache & pencil on board)
Portrait of Andrew Cruickshank, illustration for 'The Sunday Times' (gouache on board)
Portrait of Alistair Cooke, illustration for 'The Listener', 1970s (gouache on board)

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