Henry Sanders
1918-1982
né Saloman
Influences
HENRY SANDERS drew a large measure of influence from the places in which he painted, spending a great deal of time (as much as was possible) in the Mediterranean countries, painting life as he travelled in France, Italy and Spain but also in Holland and Belgium. His urgent and definite style in the delineation of his chosen theme is in the direct tradition of German Expressionism. Drawing was an obsession with him and his large output on paper was of a quality that comes only to someone to whom drawing has become an extension of his personality and as natural as the act of writing. Critical acclaim continued. Cottie Surland said, "Henry Sanders has many things to give". Perhaps one of the most exciting of the latter day expressionist painters, Henry Sanders died in 1982. Surely, it is fitting to leave the final word, in this review of his career, to Henry Sanders himself. "Karel Appel has said I paint like a barbarian in a barbaric age. Is there not even more reason to stress the human values in just such a time? It was always in the most barbaric times, such as the Renaissance, that humanist writers and artists fulfilled the greatest need. I am striving, through my figurative art, to say something about the timelessness of the human condition."
