Abstract Composition on Blue and Yellow Bars

Details

Alastair Morton (1910-1963)
Abstract Composition on Blue and Yellow Bars
gouache and pencil
13¾ x 20 in. (34.9 x 50.8 cm.)
Executed in 1941.

Provenance

with The Fine Art Society, London.

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Lot Essay

In Alastair Morton's carefully considered compositions, lines and geometric shapes are strategically juxtaposed in a celebration of colour and form. Lesley Jackson writes, 'They conjure up the dualities of life: attraction and repulsion, isolation and entanglement, harmony and confusion, energy and frustration.' L. Jackson, Alastair Morton and the Edinburgh Weavers: visionary textiles and modern art, London, 2012, p. 113).

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