Wolfson receives fifteen rare paintings by local artist Morris 'Charlie' Chackas

Morris Chackas, known as Charlie, was born in London in 1916 and began to paint in earnest after he left the Army in 1945. Working from a studio on Woodstock Road, north Oxford, his influences were broad, ranging from African art and Japanese flower arrangements to Cézanne, Matisse, de Staël and William Scott. His aim was to play with objects in space, and create a relationship between space and colour in which there is a constant alternating current.
 
Chackas’s paintings are included in the art collections of Pembroke, Keble, and St Hugh’s Colleges, and Wolfson is delighted to showcase some of his work.