ID 908069
Lot 115 | GORDON ONSLOW FORD (1912-2003)
Valeur estimée
£ 150 000 – 250 000
Cycloptomania
signed and dated 'G Onslow Ford 4.40' (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed 'Clyptomania G.O.-F. 40' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
35 x 50 in. (88.9 x 127 cm.)
Painted in April 1940
Provenance
The artist, until at least 1988.
Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2003.
Literature
E.L.T. Mesens, R. Penrose & G. Onslow-Ford, eds., London Bulletin, June 1940, p. 37 (illustrated).
Exh. cat., Gordon Onslow Ford: Mirando en lo profundo, Fundación Eugenio Granell, Santiago de Compostela, 1998, p. 194 (illustrated p. 30).
Exhibited
London, Zwemmer Gallery, Surrealist Show, June - July 1940.
London, Hayward Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, January - March 1978, no. 14.43, p. 367.
New York, Artists Space, Moderns in Mind, April - May 1986, pp. 23-24.
Geneva, Museé d'Art et d'Histoire, Focus on Minotaure: The Animal-Headed Review, October 1987 - January 1988, no. 204, p. 270 (illustrated p. 256); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, March - May 1988.
Berkeley, University Art Museum, Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art, October - December 1990, no. 136, p. 288 (illustrated, p. 107).
Fresno, Fresno Art Museum, Fifteen Profiles: Distinguished California Modernists, 1995-1996, p. 49.
Berkeley, John F. Kennedy University, The Quest of the Inner-Worlds: Paintings by Gordon Onslow Ford, November 1996, p. 58 (illustrated, p. 40).
San Francisco, Weinstein Gallery, Roberto Matta, Gordon Onslow Ford, A Vision Shared, 2003, p. 6 (illustrated).
San Francisco, Gallery Wendi Norris, Science in Surrealism, May - August 2015 (illustrated, p. 39).
Special Notice
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| Artiste: | Gordon Onslow Ford (1912 - 2003) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Huile, Huile sur toile, Peint |
| Matériel: | Toile, Textiles |
| Style artistique: | Art moderne |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures |
| Artiste: | Gordon Onslow Ford (1912 - 2003) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Huile, Huile sur toile, Peint |
| Matériel: | Toile, Textiles |
| Style artistique: | Art moderne |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
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