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Alan Davie

Fruit Disher
1960
Oil on canvas
84 x 68 ins (213.4 x 172.7 cms)

Signed, dated July 1960 and titled verso

Inscribed 'Opus 0.301' verso

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Provenance:

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (label verso)

Alan Davie Edited by Alan Bowness,Published 1967, Lund Humphries

Cat. No 251, illustrated Page 68

Alan Davie With Essays by Douglas Hall and Michael Tucker

Published 1992, Lund Humphries, Opus 301, Page 173

(not illustrated)

By 1960 Davie had already had his first travelling retrospective (1958 March to October Wakefield, Nottingham, Whitechapel and Liverpool) and was involved in a dizzying profusion of mixed exhibitions worldwide. Fruit Disher is a core example of his work from this year; large scale, dramatic composition which defines the artist's own words 'a kind of tramsmutation - a searching for a formula for the magical conjuring of the unknowable'

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