Patrick Heron
COBALT WITH RED AND YELLOW : AUGUST 1976 (VARIATION)
Lot 88
Result:
Not Sold
Estimate:
€30,000 - €50,000
Patrick Heron CBE, 1920-1999
COBALT WITH RED AND YELLOW : AUGUST 1976 (VARIATION) Oil on paper, 23 1/4" x 30 1/2" (59 x 77.5cm), signed, inscribed and dated 1976 verso.
Provenance: Important Private Collection, Dublin.
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Lot 88
Patrick Heron
COBALT WITH RED AND YELLOW : AUGUST 1976 (VARIATION)
Lot 88
Patrick Heron
COBALT WITH RED AND YELLOW : AUGUST 1976 (VARIATION)
Estimate:
€30,000 - €50,000
Patrick Heron CBE, 1920-1999
COBALT WITH RED AND YELLOW : AUGUST 1976 (VARIATION) Oil on paper, 23 1/4" x 30 1/2" (59 x 77.5cm), signed, inscribed and dated 1976 verso.
Provenance: Important Private Collection, Dublin.
Patrick Heron studied at the Slade School of Art and moved to Cornwall in 1956, where he lived and worked at Eagles Nest, a house situated in a spectacular location on the Penwith peninsula. His earlier figurative paintings quickly transmuted into abstraction and his art, which ranged from stripes to colour fields, were a direct response to the light, colour and shapes that he encountered every day.
He was an important figure in the St Ives School and was at the forefront of English abstract painting, working alongside William Scott, Tery Frost and Peter Lanyon. Heron won the Grand Prize at the 1959 John Moores Exhibition and was awarded a Silver Medal at the So Paulo Biennial in 1965. A major retrospective of his work was held at Tate Britain in 1998. He served as a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, London and was awarded a CBE in 1997.
COBALT WITH RED AND YELLOW : AUGUST 1976 (VARIATION) Oil on paper, 23 1/4" x 30 1/2" (59 x 77.5cm), signed, inscribed and dated 1976 verso.
Provenance: Important Private Collection, Dublin.
Patrick Heron studied at the Slade School of Art and moved to Cornwall in 1956, where he lived and worked at Eagles Nest, a house situated in a spectacular location on the Penwith peninsula. His earlier figurative paintings quickly transmuted into abstraction and his art, which ranged from stripes to colour fields, were a direct response to the light, colour and shapes that he encountered every day.
He was an important figure in the St Ives School and was at the forefront of English abstract painting, working alongside William Scott, Tery Frost and Peter Lanyon. Heron won the Grand Prize at the 1959 John Moores Exhibition and was awarded a Silver Medal at the So Paulo Biennial in 1965. A major retrospective of his work was held at Tate Britain in 1998. He served as a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, London and was awarded a CBE in 1997.
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