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Anthony David Bernard Sylvester CBE (21 September 1924 – 19 June 2001) was a British art critic and curator. Although he received no formal education in the arts, during his long career he was influential in promoting modern artists, in particular Francis Bacon, Joan Miró, and Lucian Freud .
Aug 7, 2021 · Philly’s David Sylvester Has Hugged More Than Half a Million People, and He’s Not Quitting Anytime Soon. He started his idiosyncratic quest 20 years ago in the aftermath of 9/11. This year,...
John-Paul Stonard (Independent Scholar)The art critic David Sylvester (1924-2001) launched his career during the Second World War, writing for Tribune Magazi...
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In the mid-1950s David Sylvester spent much of his time trying to make a living from gambling. There exists among Sylvester’s personal papers in the Tate Archive a drafted fragment for a book he considered calling Memoirs of a Mug. As this suggests, he was not a successful gambler.
Lee Hallman considers how David Sylvester’s role in the rehabilitation of David Bomberg’s reputation in the 1950s and 1960s illuminates as much about the critic and his cultural and historical milieu as about the painter’s then-neglected work.
Jun 20, 2001 · David Sylvester, for many years an influential critic, exhibition organizer and shaper of opinion in the international modern-art field, died on Monday in London. He was 76 and lived in...
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Sep 30, 1994 · David Sylvester’s prose is always pleasingly pithy and engagingly metaphoric. (Recently he characterised the difference between a de Kooning and a Pollock as the same as that between...
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