Terry Frost (b.1915)

Summer Blue

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Terry Frost (b.1915)
Summer Blue
signed, dated twice and inscribed 'Aug 74/20th/Terry Frost'/Frost/74 (on the reverse), and inscribed 'Summer Blue' (on the canvas overlap)
acrylic and collage on canvas
51 x 61½ in. (129.5 x 156.2 cm.); unframed
Provenance
Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London.
Waddington Galleries, London.
Literature
D. Lewis et al, Terry Frost, Aldershot, 1994, p.119 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie le Balcon des Arts, June 1977.

Lot Essay

From the late 1960s onwards, the C and D shapes that had always had an important role in Frost's art began to assume a new vibrancy. As he wrote to Claude Rogers in 1967: 'You can do so much with the curves. You can make them full or thin, slow or fast. The tension brings vitality to the space around them - they ooze authority and life' (see D. Lewis, op. cit., p.113).

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