About

Philip King was born in 1934 in Khair ad-Din, not far from Carthage, in Tunisia. After the war, in 1946, his family came back to England and settled in London, a city that was deeply marked by the German strategic blitzkrieg. At the end of his education at the Mill Hill School, Philip King did his military service with the Royal Signal Corps in England and Marly-Le-Roy, in the vicinity of Paris -because he spoke French. In Paris, he often visited the Louvre Museum, where he copied classical sculptures, and met Vantongerloo. Relieved from his military duties, he went on to study Modern …