14 Nov 2012
14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street
20th Century British and Irish Art
Back to auction 20025
20th Century British and Irish Art
Back to auction 20025
Adrian Heath (British, 1920-1992)
Untitled
oil on canvas
127 x 101.7 cm. (50 x 40 in.)
(unframed)
oil on canvas
127 x 101.7 cm. (50 x 40 in.)
(unframed)
Estimate:
£25,000 - 35,000
€30,000 - 41,000
US$ 38,000 - 53,000
€30,000 - 41,000
US$ 38,000 - 53,000
Footnotes
- PROVENANCE:
The artist's estate, where acquired by the present owner
"Alterations are frequent, shapes amalgamate or divide, new colours are superimposed or old ones intensified. These alterations are caused by the reaction of the painter to the physical aspect of his work, and to the demands that they seem to make as well as to the mood that they create within him. It is the ability to develop and finally unite both mood and structure that gives to that work its meaning and identity." (Adrian Heath, Introduction to Statements Exhibition, I.C.A., 1956, quoted in Adrian Heath, Recent Paintings, Hanover Gallery, London, 1959).
Stylistically the present work can be probably dated towards the start of the 1960s, a time when Heath's work was at its most sensuous. At this point he was finding inspiration in the work of the America Abstract elite, in particular De Kooning, Gorkey and Motherwell though his interest in gesture and movement stems from artists he admired from childhood such as John Singer Sargent and Ambrose McEvoy.
Category: Fine Art / Modern British and Irish Art
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