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Paul Huxley

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description

  • Paul Huxley
  • Untitled No. 33
  • signed, dated Jan '64 and numbered 33 on the overlap
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 203 by 203 cm.

Provenance

Waddington Galleries, London
Acquired from the above in 1964

Exhibited

London, Whitechapel Gallery, The New Generation, 1964
London, The Tate Gallery, and travelling, Recent British Painting. Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, 1967, no. 93, pp. 154-155, illustrated

Condition

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the overall tonality is brighter and more red in the original. Condition: Original canvas. Surface dirt throughout. Minor scratches throughout with occassional associated paint loss. A stain to the lower edge, 16 cm. from the left edge (visible in the cat. ill.) A small area of scratches lower center. Some tiny spots of paints loss. Tiny spots lighting up under U.V. light in the center of the composition.
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