£43,750
The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Collection | 664
Auction: 28 October 2021 at 18:00 BST
inscribed, titled and dated to stretcher (to reverse), oil on canvas
Through the 1950s Barns-Graham developed an abstract language that was derived from close observation of the landscape, but which increasingly emphasised geometric forms. In the early 1960s and for over 20 years through her mid-career, she turned away from landscape and based much of her art on careful arrangements of either squares or circles. The richly coloured ‘Red and Violet’, which sees a precarious balancing of squares, is one of the earliest examples of this new, hard-edged style.