Classic Gambit (declined version)

Details

Phillip Allen (B. 1967)
Classic Gambit (declined version)
signed, titled and dated 'PHIL ALLEN 2005 "CLASSIC GAMBIT (DECLINED VERSION)"' (on the reverse)
oil on board
60 x 72in. (152.4 x 183cm.)
Painted in 2005

Provenance

The Approach Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

Exhibited

Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes Gallery, Phillip Allen, 2006 (illustrated, p. 55).
Paris, FRAC Île-de-France, Archipeinture: Artists Build Architecture, 2006.

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Lot Essay

Phillip Allen is a master of painterly effects, frequently juxtaposing subtle, barely-there scraped down passages with dense accretions of paint. In Classic Gambit (declined version) an arrangement of floating lozenges are anthropomorphized and seemingly in conversation, each a thin field with an impastoed dot placed atop it. In this way, while gesturing to a narrative, the work is resolutely abstract and set in a mysterious imaginary world.

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