LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on board

Size Notes:

64 x 100

Description:

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Markings:

signed Alan Davie and dated 1956 (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

London, Gimpel Fils,Alan Davie,October- November 1956, no. 25; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery,Alan Davie, Paintings and Drawings from 1936-1958,June - August 1958, no. 45; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery,Alan Davie, In Retrospect,September - October 1958, no. 42; Zurich, Galerie Charles Lienhard,Alan Davie, April - May 1960, no. 3; So Paulo, 7th So Paulo Biennial,Paintings by Davie, Sculptures and Graphic Works by Paolozzi, Charcoal Drawings by Vaughan, September - December 1963, no. 3, with tour through South America; London, Tate Gallery,Recent British Painting: Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, November - December 1967, no. 28; Adelaide, The Art Gallery of South Australia,Adelaide Festival of Arts, Recent British Painting (Sponsored by The Peter Stuyvesant Trust), March 1970, no. 28, with tour to Auckland, Art Gallery, August - September 1971; The Basildon Arts Trust, 1979 - 1984, on loan; London, Portland Gallery,Alan Davie - The Eternal Conjurer, May - June 2014, no. 2, illustrated in catalogue p. 8

Literature:

Alan Bowness,Alan Davie, Lund Humphries, London, 1967, no. 146, illustrated pl. 30; Douglas Hall and Michael Tucker,Alan Davie, Lund Humphries, London, 1992, no. 184, p. 171

Provenance:

Gimpel Fils, London, where acquired by the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, May 1965; Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London, by whom gifted to the Basildon Arts Trust,1984; Sale, Christie's, London, 25 June, 2014, lot 19; Alan Wheatley Art, London, where acquired by the father of the present owner