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In Two Moroccan Women (1992-5) the singing colour is comparable to Frank Stella's powerful square paintings of the early 1960s, yet the subject matter is indispensable.
Such paintings retained their basis in drawing but the stimuli became more studio-bound and investigative, an analytical process was becoming synthetic.
Despite these formal imperatives, what concerned Greaves was not abstraction, but the way that he might give equal weight to the representational and abstract components of his work.
Derrick Greaves
Two Moroccan Women
Acrylic on canas
53.5 x 52.5 cms (21.03 x 20.63 ins)
c.1994
Signed, titled and dated on the reverse
Sold
Provenance:
Private Collection
Exhibited:
Derrick Greaves, Paintings and Drawings 1952 - 2002, James Hyman Gallery, 28 January - 4 March 2005
Literature:
Derrick Greaves: Paintings and Drawings 1952 - 2002, James Hyman Gallery, London, 2003, (cat. 38), illustrated p.32.
James Hyman, Derrick Greaves:From Kitchen SInk to Shangri-La, Lund Humphries, London 2007, illustrated p.144.