Seeds

Details

Prunella Clough (1919-1999)
Seeds
signed 'Clough' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
14 x 16 in. (35.5 x 40.5 cm.)
Painted in 1997.

Provenance

with Annely Juda, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

London, Olympia, Prunella Clough: Seeing the World Sideways, March 2004, no. 73.

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

Although she insisted that she never painted an entirely abstract image, Clough’s later work does closely embrace a formal interest in shape, pattern and colour that is allusive rather than descriptive. She delighted in different textures and unpredictable colour combinations, very often in the cause of subverting her innate good taste, and made a number of unusual and memorable images which although they look abstract are always, like Seeds, based on things seen.

A.L.

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