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JAMES HYMAN GALLERY
Alan Davie (b.1920)
Please scroll down for further information. Alan Davie (b.1920) Improvisations on a Chagall Theme No. 4 Signed, dated and inscribed with the title and opus number on the reverse Oil on canvas 173 x 214 cms (68 x 84¼ inches) 1967 Provenance: The artist (Opus no. 0579C) Gimpel Fils Gallery, London Private Collection Literature: British Paintings and Sculpture 1960-1970, National Gallery of Art, USA,1970, illustrated cat.18 (with wrong caption) Gimpel-Hanover Gallery, Zurich, 1971, illustrated black and white cat.15 Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, 1972, illustrated cat.15 Alan Davie, Lund Humphries, 1992, illustrated in colour p125, plate 75 Michael Tucker (introduction and editor), Alan Davie: The Quest for the Miraculous , Lund Humphries, 1993, illustrated in colour p33, cat.68 Exhibition History: British Paintings and Sculpture 1960-1970, National Gallery of Art, USA,1970 Gimpel-Hanover Gallery, Zurich, 1971 Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, 1972 Galerie Louis Carre, Paris, 1987 Alan Davie: The Quest for the Miraculous, University of Brighton Gallery, 1993, subsequently touring to Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Ramsgate Gallery, The University Gallery, Nottingham and The Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling Retrospective, Barbican, London, 1993 Davie recalls that this painting was, as in Jazz, an improvisation around a theme. In this case the jumping off point was a painting by Chagall showing a two-headed bride in a wedding dress and long white veil, holding a bunch of flowers. Davie has spoken of this painting as possessing ‘a musical, lyrical movement between certain very subtle colour relationships. I actually sprinkled paint on various areas, which has a scintillating, luminous quality.’ Please click here to contact us about this item, or if you wish to buy or sell a work by this artist. | ||||||||
