Magda Cordell McHale (1921-2008)

Hungarian-born painter Magda Cordell McHale was known as a major figure in post-WWII British art. In her painting Untitled #8, she blurs the subject with the background, dissolving the divisive line between figure and environment. Internally, the figure reveals forms suggestive of skeletal structure and inner organs, further opening up a traditionally closed image.

Lent for the exhibition: Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965 at the Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS, 3 March – 26 June 2022 (https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/event/postwar-modern-new-art-in-britain-1945-1965)