LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

56.02 in. (142.30 cm.) (height) by 44.02 in. (111.80 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Waddington Galleries, Bryan Wynter, Recent Paintings, 10 March-4 April 1959, cat.no.15,London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, Bryan Wynter, Paintings, Kinetics and works on Paper, 1915-1975, 5-30 August 1976, cat.no.41 (ill., pl.7)Sea Journey was first at Waddington Galleries in 1959. Michael Bird comments that the exhibition 'contained a series of virtuoso all over paintings in which this manner of working, popularly believed to be a chance-governed affair, attained classic status' (Michael Bird, Bryan Wynter, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2010, p.119). Such was the impact of Wynter's exhibition that in reviewing the concurrent Abstract Expressionism blockbuster New American Paintings at the Tate, it was declared that there is just 'one serious challenge to American dominance of the London scene - namely, Bryan Wynter' ('American Explosion', Art and Artists, vol.1, no.5, May 1959)

Provenance:

Dr. Damiano,Design Research Unit, London,Sale; Christie's, London, 26 October 1994, lot 155,Williams & Glyn Bank,Paul Bedford,With Robert Sandelson, London,Private Collection, U.K