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Sir Terry Frost, R.A. (1915-2003)
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Sir Terry Frost, R.A. (1915-2003)

Red and Black Wedge

Details
Sir Terry Frost, R.A. (1915-2003)
Red and Black Wedge
signed and dated 'Terry Frost/1961' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.5 cm.)
Provenance
with Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York.
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. VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

'When I am painting I am not concerned with theory however much thinking I may have done before I started to paint. When I am really painting, I have stopped. I am only concerned with what I am to do next. When I do paint I am discovering what I have to do. Thought for me is before and after but not at the time. When one is thinking there are so many possibilities. When one paints, one knows; and the statement is definite ... When I make a painting it is with paint on a flat surface and belongs to itself. It has nothing to do with imitation or representation, though my idea may be and usually is started by an experience of nature or rather the experience of one human being wandering, observing, questioning, worrying, trying to see truth, trying to penetrate the mystery of life' (Frost quoted in an Arnolfini Gallery catalogue, 1965).

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