£35,200
MODERN MADE: Modern & Post-War Art, Design & Studio Ceramics | 695
Auction: 28 October 2022 at 11:00 BST
signed, titled, dated and inscribed (to reverse), oil on canvas
Exhibited:
Gimpel Fils, London, Alan Davie: Major Works of the Sixties, 3 October - 11 November 1989, cat. no. 12 (illustrated).
"[N]ot only does the bespattered and encrusted surface of Davie take on a positive richness, as of medieval jewellery or stained glass, but formal analogies appear… the froth of new buds or leaves seem to crystalize out of the swift, ragged calligraphy; there, flat blunt chinks of form resolve themselves into somewhat heraldic emblems of the human figure."
Patrick Heron writing about Alan Davie (1956)