ID 728665
Lot 150 | ALAN DAVIE, R.A. (1920-2014)
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000
The Prayer
signed, inscribed and dated 'Alan Davie 1956./THE PRAYER' (on the reverse)
oil on board
63 x 79 in. (160 x 200.8 cm.)
Painted in 1956.
This work is recorded by the artist as Opus 193.
Provenance
with Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York.
Mr and Mrs Larry Aldrich, New York, by 1959.
with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by the present owner in November 2007.
Literature
A. Bowness (ed.), Alan Davie, London, 1967, n.p, no. 153, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Fall Exhibitions, Ridgefield, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,1973, n.p, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
Exhibited
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings and sculpture collected by Mr and Mrs Larry Aldrich, January - March 1959, exhibition not numbered, catalogue not traced.
New York, The American Federation of Arts, The Aldrich Collection, October 1960, no. 7: this exhbition travelled to San Francisco, February - March 1961; Albany, Institute of History and Art, 1961; and Mineapolis, Institute of Art, 1962, catalogue not traced.
Ridgefield, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, "Old Hundred" Opening Exhibition: Selections from The Larry Aldrich Contemporary Collection 1951-1964, January - June 1964, no. 16.
Ridgefield, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall Exhibitions, September - December 1973, exhibition not numbered.
New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Paintings of the 50's and 60's, October 1975, no. 193, catalogue not traced.
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Artist: | Alan Davie (1920 - 2014) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Artist: | Alan Davie (1920 - 2014) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Address of auction |
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