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Published: 4 June 2009

Yellow Remix,- Acanvas from miles Davis

Flip side to artistry of Miles Davis

EVERYONE knows Miles Davis.
His tunes are played by buskers, pub players and professionals the world over and some would argue he is the greatest jazz musician ever to have lived.
What is not so well known is when the Chicago man didn’t have his hands on his trumpet, he was clutching a brush and putting some of those celebrated
creative juices on canvas.
An exhibition of his drawings and oil paintings are on display at the Exchange Court Gallery in Covent Garden this week.
They were acquired from the private collection of Jo Gelbard, Davis’s sculptress girlfriend, who inspired most of his work in the last five years of his life. Davis, who died in 1991, had branched out into visual art from about 1980.
His works reflect his well-documented fascination with and love of women, together with evocations of African tribal art.
• Miles Davis: London Exhibition and Sale is at the Exchange Court Gallery, Maiden Lane, WC2 until Saturday June 6. Free admission 11.30am-6pm.

Jamie Welham

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