Two Dogs In One Field

Details

Bob Law (1934-2004)
Two Dogs In One Field
titled 'TWO DOGS IN ONE FIELD' (lower left); signed and dated 'BOB LAW 67.88' (lower right)
lead hightened with chalk
9 x 13 1/8in. (22.8 x 33.3cm.)
Conceived in 1967, this work was executed in 1988

Provenance

Richard Saltoun, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.

Literature

R. Saltoun and K. Schubert (eds.), Bob Law: A Retrospective, London 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 121).

Exhibited

Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, Bob Law. Drawings, Sculpture and Paintings, 1999. This exhibition later travelled to Cambridge, Kettles Yard.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

'Law made a small number of concrete poetry works in lead in the 1980s and a handful in the period from the late 1960s to 1970s... The layout of text on these panels (in Fibonacci spiral, intersecting cross-hatch, or standard lines) varies as much as their overall form, whether augmented obelisk or rectangle, while a few include engraved outlines of dogs but no other figurative markings'
(Bob Law, quoted in https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/law-is-a-mind-a-prison-t12178/text- summary [accessed 13th September 2013]).

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