Description
MARLOW MOSS
1889-1958
WHITE, BLACK AND RED
signed and dated: Marlow Moss 1950 (lower right); also signed and inscribed: Moss Marlow Lamorna Penzance Cornwall (on the reverse)
oil on canvas in the Artist's painted wooden frame
40.5 by 50.5 cm.; 16 by 20 in.
We are grateful to Florette Dijkstra and Lucy Howarth for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Condition Report
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Provenance
Branco Weiss, possibly
Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, where acquired by the present owner in 1988
Literature
R. Rosen, Marlow Moss: Did She Influence Mondrian's Work of the Thirties?, Arts Magazine, April 1979, fig. 5, pp. 163-65
F. Dijkstra, Marlow Moss: Constructivist + the Reconstruction Project, The Pattern Press, Penzance, 1995, no. S36, p. 38
S. Schaschl, L. Howarth and A. de Jongh-Vermeulen, Marlow Moss: a Forgotten Maverick, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, 2017, p. 121, illustrated p. 120
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Marlow Moss, 30 March - 30 April 1962, no. 21
Zeeland, Middelburg Town Hall, Marlow Moss, 1972
Zurich, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Marlow Moss: Bilder, Konstruktionen, Zeichnungen, 1 December 1973 - 19 January 1974, no. 19, illustrated
London, Gimpel & Hanover Gallery, 1975 (details untraced)
London, The New Art Centre, Cornwall 1945 - 1955, 9 December - 3 November 1977, no. 93
New York, Carus Gallery, Marlow Moss, 17 February - 24 May 1979, no. 7
