Ascent & Red Midland, 1968

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Sir Terry Frost, R.A. (b. 1915)
Ascent & Red Midland, 1968
signed, inscribed and dated 'Ascent & Red Midland/Terry Frost 68' (on a label attached to the stretcher) and dated 'Nov Dec 68' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
72 x 60 in. (182.9 x 152.3 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Discussing the large paintings from the late 1960s, Frost (Terry Frost: Six Decades, Royal Academy exhibition catalogue, London, 2000, p. 52) remarked, 'I knew I had to do some large paintings, for my own sake: maybe I was ambitious to go to the States; it is essential to find out what can happen when you work big. I had done Red, Black and White small and I wanted to do it again on a scale that would really surround you. At that time in my life I could paint on the floor, so I would stand to make semicircles which were drawn by my body. You couldn't do that on an easel because you would plan it too much if you did'.

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