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Boscoe Holder, 'Green Background', 1996, Acrylic on board, 57.7 x 48.1 cm, 22 3/4 x 19 in, © Boscoe Holder
Courtesy the Boscoe Holder Estate and Victoria Miro
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Geoffrey Holder, 'Woman on Man's Shoulders', Late-1970s, Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 101.6 cm, 60 x 40 in © Geoffrey Holder
Courtesy the Geoffrey Holder Estate and James
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Geoffrey Holder, 'Dancer in Yellow', 2006, Oil, oil marker, and china marker on canvas, 152.4 x 91.4 cm, 60 x 36 in, © Geoffrey Holder
Courtesy the Geoffrey Holder Estate and James Fuentes
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Boscoe Holder, 'Untitled', Undated, Acrylic on board, 45.2 x 31.2 cm, 17 3/4 x 12 1/4 in, © Boscoe Holder
Courtesy the Boscoe Holder Estate and Victoria Miro
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Boscoe Holder, 'Fret Work', 1988, Acrylic on board, 65.8 x 94.4 cm, 25.93 x 37.19 in, © Boscoe Holder
Courtesy the Boscoe Holder Estate and Victoria Miro
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Geoffrey Holder, 'Swimmers II', 1986, Coloured pencil on paper, 91.4 x 116.8 cm, 36 x 46 in, © Geoffrey Holder
Courtesy the Geoffrey Holder Estate and James Fuentes
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Victoria Miro is delighted to present exhibitions by Boscoe Holder and Geoffrey Holder. Shown in tandem for the first time, exhibitions by Boscoe (1921–2007) and his younger brother Geoffrey (1930–2014) foreground the siblings as painters against the significance of their achievements in theatre, dance, and film. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Boscoe and Geoffrey Holder were true polymaths whose groundbreaking careers in the visual and performing arts led them individually to the UK, where Boscoe settled in 1950, and the US, where Geoffrey made his home in 1953, and to wider international acclaim. Together the exhibitions draw...