拍品 109
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Alan Davie, H.R.S.A. (b. 1920)
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Alan Davie, H.R.S.A. (b. 1920)

Yellow Box

細節
Alan Davie, H.R.S.A. (b. 1920)
Yellow Box
signed, inscribed and dated 'Alan Davie/YELLOW BOX/FEB 53' (on the reverse), dated again 'Feb 1953' (on the reverse), numbered 'OPUS: 0.91' (on the reverse)
oil on board
77 x 60 in. (195.6 x 152.4 cm.)
來源
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner's father in the 1960s.
出版
A. Bowness (ed.), Alan Davie, London, 1967, no. 64, illustrated.
展覽
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Alan Davie: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings from 1936 - 1958, June - August 1958, no. 31.
London, Gimpel Fils, Alan Davie, January - February 1954.
注意事項
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. 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.

拍品專文


Alan Bowness comments, 'Around 1950 it was Pre-Columbian gold work and Syrian seals that aroused his [Davie's] greatest interest; a year or two later the art of Africa and Oceania became more important ... Slowly, however, oil painting, at first usually on board, chosen for hardness (and cheapness), assumes more and more importance. Davie did not use ready-made tube colours: already in 1948 he had begun to make his own paints, mixing permanent powder pigments with oil and turps to a thin creamy consistency ... Heavily outlined, regular, flat shapes appear in many of the paintings of the early 1950's - squares, triangles, lozenges, discs, half-moons, which often detach themselves from the dense disorder behind them and float forward out towards the spectator ... For Davie all these shapes are at the same time symbolic (and thus he is not an abstract artist), but the use of symbols is always intuitive and their meanings can never be exactly defined' (see A. Bowness (ed.), op. cit., p. 171).