The Estate of Michael Andrews is represented by James Hyman Gallery.
Michael Andrews was one of the greatest British painters of the twentieth century and is commonly associated with the School of London and a circle of friends including Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitaj and Leon Kossoff.
He worked very slowly, producing only a small body of work, leading Lucian Freud to declare that Andrews only painted masterpieces. Frank Auerbach recently wrote that "each work of his is a separate invention; the transformation of complex subjects so poetic, the formal allusions so subtle and varied, the structural scaffolding so subsumed, that the insensitive have sometimes found his work bland. It is, in fact, the product of extreme sensibility, extreme good manners and extreme conscience."