Historical person
Christopher Wood
1901–1930
Christopher Wood studied in Paris in the 1920s and entered the international modernist circle around artists and patrons including Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. His work combined simplified forms and intense colour with subjects drawn from Brittany, Cornwall and the sea.
Wood was one of the distinctive British painters of the interwar period and connected British art with the Parisian avant-garde before his early death. Christopher Wood also worked as Painter. Christopher Wood was born in Knowsley, Lancashire, England and died in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
Sebastian Faulks’ The Fatal Englishman tells the lives of three gifted Englishmen whose careers ended young. Painter Christopher Wood moves through the modernist world of 1920s Paris before addiction and instability overwhelm him; RAF pilot and writer Richard Hillary survives terrible burns in the Battle of Britain, writes The Last Enemy and fights to return to flying.
Non Fiction
Non Fiction featuring Christopher Wood (1 book)
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