Lot 23
  • 23

Michael Andrews

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Michael Andrews
  • A Shoot (Grimsthorpe/Norfolk) I
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated '84; signed, titled and dated '84 on the reverse
  • watercolor on paper
  • 9 3/4 by 14 7/8 in. 24.8 by 37.8 cm.

Provenance

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 1986

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. The sheet is hinged on the reverse to the backing board along the top edge. There is a soft undulation to the sheet due to the artist's choice of medium. There are variations in pigmented surface, due to the artist’s working method and choice of medium. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

“Being equally sensitive to the spells of time and of space, to a tract of years and a tract of landscape, I tried to discover the historical moment which best interpreted the ethos of a particular countryside, and to devise the appropriate legend.”

John Buchan, Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan and his World, 1979

 

“It’s marvellously clear this quote. I sympathise. It is deduction: Buchan’s historical moment, for me is induced or suggested by landscape and its ethos. The ethos is the history. It’s the ethos I try to paint.”

Michael Andrews, referring to the above quote, as quoted in “Strange Consolation: The Art of Michael Andrews,” in Exh. Cat., London, Tate Britain, Michael Andrews, 1993, p. 35