Lot 8
  • 8

Paul Huxley

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description

  • Paul Huxley
  • Untitled No. 46
  • signed, dated feb 65 and numbered No. 46 on the overlap
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 173 by 173 cm.

Provenance

Rowan Gallery, London
Acquired from the above in 1965

Exhibited

London, Rowan Gallery, Paul Huxley, 1965, no. 12
Manchester, City Art Gallery, 1966-1967, temporary loan, details untraced
London, The Tate Gallery, and travelling, Recent British Painting. Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection,  1967, no. 94, p. 155, illustrated

Condition

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the overall tonality is less red and more bright in the original. Condition: Original canvas. Surface dirt (drippings) throughout. Very minor dents. Stains, as visible in the catalogue illustration in the triangle and along the centre right edge. A few tiny spots of paint loss. Surface dirt and scratches with spots of paint loss along the edges.
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