Sensitive and talented, Fangor never ceased his engagement both with emerging art ideas and art history until his last day in the studio.
Fangor drew and painted the human form continuously during his life. This was the case even while he was presenting his highly successful abstract work to exhibitions and for sale.
Instead of suggesting a heroic linear progression with a mid-point aesthetic climax, what emerges is a thoughtful and ethical artist in a long conversation about art and society.
In 2005 a tranche of early drawings was recovered, which led to the creation of this later painted collage work