Artist

Ivan Peries

Sri Lankan artist and, 1921–1988

Ivan Peries was a Sri Lankan artist and Contemporary Abstract artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Ivan Peries was a founder member of the Colombo '43 Group of Sri Lankan artists, and became one of its leading painters. Born near Colombo, he spent more than half his life in self-imposed exile in London and Southend-On-Sea, but his art remained to the end a prolonged meditation on his native Sri Lankan experience.

Collections represented

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