Red Causeway Series: Study of red cobbles and broken slate

Details

Boyle Family
Red Causeway Series: Study of red cobbles and broken slate
painted fibreglass, resin and mixed media
72 x 72 in. (183 x 183 cm.)
Executed in 1976.

Provenance

with Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle.
Private collection, U.S.A.

Literature

J.L. Locher, Mark Boyle's Journey to the Surface of the Earth, Stuttgart, 1978, p. 189, illustrated.

Exhibited

Seattle, Richard Hines Gallery, Mark Boyle: Relief Paintings, June - July 1980, as ''Broken Slate Study' from Red Causeway Series 1975', catalogue not traced.

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

'A series of randomly selected pieces we make at regular intervals along a raised road leading to a partially demolished factory in West London. The road was made of red cobbles. There were cobbled pavements on either side with a stone kerb. The first study at the top was littered with smashed slate from the roof of the factory. The road was deserted. There was a heatwave. We worked in the sun from sunrise til sunset. We were deliriously happy, 10 studies each 6' x 6''. (Mark Boyle quoted in J.L. Locher, op. cit.)

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