LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil, wax and Liquitex on canvas

Measurements:

87.99 in. (223.50 cm.) (height) by 107.99 in. (274.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

titled 'Safety is Your Business' (lower centre); signed and dated 'MORLEY 71' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Malmö, Galerie Östergren, Malcom Morley, 1972. Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Malerei und Photographie im Dialog, von 1840 bis Heute, 1977 (illustrated, p. 333). New York, Brooklyn Museum, Malcolm Morley: Paintings, 1965-82, 1984. Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Malcolm Morley, 1993 (illustrated in colour, p. 101). This exhibition later travelled to Toulouse-Labège, Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées. London, Hayward Gallery, Malcolm Morley in Full Colour, 2001, no. 22 (illustrated in colour, p. 61).

Literature:

R. Fuchs, H. Kramer and P. Schjeldahl, Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection 3: Baselitz, Guston, Kiefer, Morley, Polke, Schnabel, London 1984, no. 52 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

Provenance:

Galerie Veith Turske, Cologne. Creutz Collection, Dusseldorf. Saatchi Collection, London. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1990.