Lot 35
ALASDAIR GRAY (SCOTTISH 1934-2019) §
MAKING PICTURES (FILM SEQUENCE WITH LIZ LOCHHEAD), 1972
Contemporary & Post-War Art // Prints & Multiples
Auction: Contemporary Art: 07 April 2021 | From 11:00
Description
Inscribed 'She Draws her Lover' verso, mixed media on brown paper laid on board
Dimensions
85cm x 112cm (33.5in x 44in)
Footnote
Exhibited: 'Now and Then', Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow, 2008
Literature: p.158, 'Alasdair Gray: A Life in Pictures', by Alasdair Gray, published by Canongate, Edinburgh 2020
Note: This work is from an important series in Gray's career and a significant undertaking; 'Film sequence with Liz Lochhead', in which Gray created artworks to illustrate Lochhead's poetry, which were then filmed by Malcolm Hossick, a BBC producer.
The poems were written and the images finished, but the film that was to unite them fell through. The film was to tell the story of a doomed love affair, with the images acting as flashbacks or memories.
This significant example of Gray's work has been loaned for exhibitions of Gray's work throughout the years, notably in the exhibition 'Now and Then' mounted by the Sorcha Dallas Gallery in Glasgow in 2008, which saw the nine works in the Lochhead series re-united for the first time.
