LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

71.97 in. (182.80 cm.) (height) by 36.02 in. (91.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, inscribed and dated 'CAMELLIA GARDEN: 1956 PATRICK HERON' (on the stretcher)

Exhibited:

London, Redfern Gallery, Patrick Heron, Mary Fedden, Robert Macgowan, June 1956, no. 4, as 'Camellia Garden: 1956'. St Ives, Tate Gallery, Patrick Heron Early and Late Garden Paintings, March - June 2001, not numbered.

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, Patrick Heron, London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1985, pp. 9, 55, no. 28, illustrated. V. Knight, Patrick Heron, London, 1988, p. 6, pl. 28, as 'Camellia Garden: April 1956'. M. Gooding, Patrick Heron, London, 1994, pp. 93, 105, 109-110, 268, illustrated twice. D. Sylvester (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Patrick Heron, London, Tate Gallery, 1998, p. 154, fig. 26. A. Wilson, exhibition catalogue, Patrick Heron Early and Late Garden Paintings, St Ives, Tate Gallery, 2001, pp. 10, 22, illustrated (and on front cover).

Provenance:

Purchased directly from the artist by the present owner in late 1950s.