Robert Lenkiewicz was born in London in 1941, son of Jewish refugees that fled from Nazi Germany… At 16 years of age he was accepted at Saint Martin’s School of Art and later attended the Royal Academy of Art… He relocated to Plymouth after his neighbours in London complained that he allowed drug addicts, derelicts, and who knows who else to shelter in his studio… He gained recognition with his giant mural on Plymouth’s Barbican (1970’s)…
In the 1990’s he began to get more and more recognition… 42.000 of his countrymen attended a retrospective of his art in 1997 at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery… He died in 2002 of a heart attack with only £12 and a huge debt… Some media reports placed Lenkiewicz’s estate somewhere around £6.5 million. Maybe because of his library of antique books on witchcraft, the occult, metaphysics and medieval philosophy. Yet when Sotheby’s auctioned the entire estate in 2003 it raised less than £1 million.
SOME OF THE WORK OF ROBERT LENKIEWICZ
He never cared about courting the London art crowd or acceptance from anyone who would not accept him on his own terms. A true artist.
(Sorry but I could not find the dates of any of the work, except for the mural and even that was just in the 1970’s)
CHEERS…
JaZzArt en València 
He was a prolific artist but he sold loads to people who didn’t care much for the Royal Academy’s view of his art. Have you heard about his paintings of ‘Diogenes’ a local homeless man who lived near a rubbish tip and also his mural for the Earl of St Germans at Port Eliot?
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Yes, I’ve seen the pictures of it Malc. You’re right, prolific and quite an interesting one indeed. Cheers mate and a happy Saturday to you!
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You too Francesc
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😊🙋♂️👍
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Really interesting!
I didn’t know this artist
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He is a very interesting artist. I am glad you met him now Luisa and happy weekend to you!
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Thanks a lot for your kind reply🌸
Happy weekend!
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Prego, gentilissima Luisa
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🙏💙🙏
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