Henry Cliffe (1919-1983)

Henry Cliffe studied at Bath Academy of Art and ran its lithography studio from 1950 until he retired in 1981. His early work drew on Surrealism and English neo-romantic landscape, and in the 1950s he turned to the relationship between the figure and the landscape. In 1960 he was one of five artists shown in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The Fates comes from his Metamorphoses suite of lithographs, published by St George’s Gallery in 1959.