Oil on board
22 x 27 cm unframed
37.6 x 42 cm framed

Signed Fred Yates (lower left).

Frederick Joseph Yates (1922 – 2008) was an English artist. Inspired by the Manchester painter L. S. Lowry, Yates set out to paint pictures about the lives of ordinary people: ” … It is the man in the street that I’m after, whom I feel closest to, with whom I want to make friends and enter into confidence and connivance, and he is the one I want to please and enchant by means of my work”. Despite his reclusive nature, his paintings combined sharp observations of people going about their daily lives with strong, impressionist colours and expressive brushwork. His paintings are included in many private and public collections

Yates has a loyal following and established secondary market, with prices between £500 – £3,000 for comparable works, and upwards of £10,000 for the largest pieces.