LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

68.50 in. (174.00 cm.) (height) by 96.06 in. (244.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 57 twice on the reverse; also titled on the stretcher

Exhibited:

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Alan Davie - Retrospective, 1958, cat. no.54, with tour to London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Nottingham University Art Gallery and Yorkshire, Wakefield Art Gallery; London, Gimpel Fils, Alan Davie: Major Works of the Fifties, 1987, cat. no.13, illustrated; Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, Alan Davie - Major Retrospective, 1992, cat. no.22; Amstelveen, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Alan Davie Schilderijen Paintings 1950-2000, 21st September - 25th November 2001, illustrated p.21; London, James Hyman Gallery, The Challenge of Post-War Painting: New Paths for Modernist Art in Britain 1950-1965, 3rd June - 4th September 2004, cat. no.10, illustrated p.41.

Literature:

Alan Bowness (ed.), Alan Davie, Lund Humphries, London, 1967, illustrated pl.41, cat. no.157; Douglas Hall and Michael Tucker, Alan Davie, Lund Humphries, London, 1992, cat. no.199.

Provenance:

The Artist Gimpel Fils, London Private Collection James Hyman Gallery, where acquired by the present owner in June 2004