Portrait of Jo Grimond III: 4 September: 1986

Details

Patrick Heron (1920-1999)
Portrait of Jo Grimond III: 4 September: 1986
signed twice, inscribed and dated 'SEPT 4 86/PORTRAIT OF JO GRIMOND: 1986: III/PATRICK HERON/Patrick Heron' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1986.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by Leslie Waddington.

Literature

The Spectator, London, 14 March 1987, p. 41, illustrated.
V. Knight and J. Taylor, Patrick Heron, London, 1988, pl. 65.
M. Gooding, Patrick Heron, London, 1994, p. 228, illustrated.
K. Wright, Modern Painters, Vol. 11, Summer 1998, p. 27, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Patrick Heron - Jo Grimond Portraits and Garden Gouaches, March 1987, no. 4.

Special notice

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.

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Lot Essay

Jo Grimond was a British politician and leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967. After the Second World War, the Liberal Party was on the brink of extinction. During his leadership, Grimond revived the party’s popularity, doubling their representation at Westminster and tripling their share of the vote. Grimond greatly admired the work of Heron and there is a portrait of the politician by the artist in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland.

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