Lot 9
9
Allen Jones, R.A. (b. 1937)
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Allen Jones, R.A. (b. 1937)

Command Performance

Details
Allen Jones, R.A. (b. 1937)
Command Performance
signed, inscribed and dated 'Allen Jones 75/76 Command Performance' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
72 x 72 in. (183 x 183 cm.)
Provenance
with Waddington Galleries, London.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Allen Jones Retrospective, Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 1979, no. 48, illustrated.
M. Livingstone, Allen Jones Sheer Magic, London, 1979, p. 40, illustrated.
Exhibited
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Allen Jones Retrospective, March - April 1979, no. 48: this exhibition travelled to London, Serpentine Gallery, May - June; Sunderland, Museum and Art Gallery, June - July; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, September - October; Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, November - December.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Marco Livingstone comments that 'The 'stage' paintings [to which this work belongs] can be taken at a superficial level as depictions of a musical revue, but the theatricality has a more profound function in declaring that the subject should be interpreted in emblematic rather than illustrational terms. The gestures of the artist in paint, like those of the performer in manipulating her anatomy, are crucial evidence of the synthesis of deliberation and spontaneity involved in the creative act' (see exhibition catalogue, Allen Jones, Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 1979, no. 48).

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