Lot Essay
Writing in the introduction for his March 1968 Marlborough exhibition Merlyn Evans - Events and Abstractions, Evans comments 'My present paintings, as in the earlier work, are indirectly about a person, a personage, or persona; two people encountering, attracting, repelling; a group of people more rarely a proliferation, a crowd.
Visually, the concern is architectural equilibrium, presentational immediacy, or directness of optical impact for the spectator'.
Visually, the concern is architectural equilibrium, presentational immediacy, or directness of optical impact for the spectator'.