Patrick Heron (1920-1999)

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Patrick Heron made his first screenprint at the Kelpra Studios in 1967. In its simplest form screenprinting uses a stencil, often cut by hand by the printmaker from an adhesive film which is then attached to the screen. Because of the technical difficulty of 'drawing with a knife', this method encourages simplicity of design and the reduction of an image to its absolute essentials. In his large canvases of the late 1960's and 70's Heron explored the potential of total abstraction. These paintings are characterised by a simplification of form to the barest essentials, shapes suspended in dazzling fields of intense colour. When it came to printmaking, the screenprint ideally suited Heron's artistic aims. The 28 screenprints offered here (lots 24 - 51) demonstrate Heron's production in the medium from 1967-1973 and is the largest single collection of prints by the artist to have been sold at auction in this country.

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Patrick Heron (1920-1999)

Winchester Four IV
screenprint in colours, 1967, on cartridge paper, signed, dated and titled in pencil, numbered 28/33, with full margins, a short tear at the lower sheet edge away from the image, a few hard creases in the margins, a pressure mark in the left margin extending slightly into the image, remains of old tape at the sheet edge on the reverse, otherwise generally in good condition
L. 570 x 890mm., S. 760 x 1015mm.

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