Patrick Heron (1920-1999)
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Patrick Heron (1920-1999)

Small Orange and Ochre (Baroque)

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Patrick Heron (1920-1999)
Small Orange and Ochre (Baroque)
signed, inscribed dated 'PATRICK HERON/SMALL ORANGE AND OCHRE (BAROQUE)/DECEMBER 1964' (on a label attached to the backboard)
gouache
11½ x 14 in. (29.2 x 35.5 cm.)
Provenance
with Waddington Galleries, London.
Dr T.W. Sutherland.
Purchased by the present owner at the 1996 exhibition.
Literature
Exhibiton catalogue, Catalogue Eight, London, Gordon Cooke, 1996, no. 45, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Gordon Cooke, Catalogue Eight, Autumn 1996, no. 45.
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Lot Essay

Heron commented in 'A Note on my Painting: 1962' written to accompany his 1963 exhibition at the Lienhard Gallery, Zurich, 'For a very long time, now, I have realised that my over-riding interest is colour. Colour is both the subject and the means; the form and the content; the image and the meaning, in my painting to-day ... It is obvious that colour is now the only direction in which painting can travel. Painting has still a continent to explore, in the direction of colour (and in no other direction) ... it seems obvious to me that we are still only at the beginning of our discovery and enjoyment of the superbly exciting facts of the world of colour. One reels at the colour possibilities now: the varied and contrasting intensities, opacities, transparencies; the seeming density and weight, warmth, coolness, vibrancy; or the superbly inert 'dull' colours' (see V. Knight (ed.), Patrick Heron, London, 1988, p. 34).

See note to lot 2.

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