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June 30, 10:59 AM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Alan Davie

1920 - 2014

The White Magician


signed Alan Davie and dated 1956 (on the reverse)

oil on board

unframed: 152 by 244cm.; 60 by 96in.

framed: 163.5 by 255.5cm.; 64½ by 100½in.

Executed in 1956.

Gimpel Fils, London, where acquired by the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, May 1965

Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London, by whom gifted to the Basildon Arts Trust, 1984

Sale, Christie's, London, 25 June, 2014, lot 19, where acquired by the father of the present owner

London, Gimpel Fils, Alan Davie, October - November 1956, no. 25
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Alan Davie, Paintings and Drawings from 1936-1958, June - August 1958, no. 45
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Alan Davie, In Retrospect, September - October 1958, no. 42
Zurich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Alan Davie, April - May 1960, no. 3
São Paulo, 7th São Paulo Biennial, Paintings by Davie, Sculptures and Graphic Works by Paolozzi, Charcoal Drawings by Vaughan, September - December 1963, no. 3, with tour through South America
London, Tate Gallery, Recent British Painting: Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, November - December 1967, no. 28
Adelaide, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Recent British Painting (Sponsored by The Peter Stuyvesant Trust), March 1970, no. 28, with tour to Auckland, Art Gallery, August - September 1971
The Basildon Arts Trust, 1979 - 1984, on loan
London, Portland Gallery, Alan Davie - The Eternal Conjurer, May - June 2014, no. 2, illustrated in catalogue p. 8
Alan Bowness, Alan Davie, Lund Humphries, London, 1967, no. 146, illustrated pl. 30
Douglas Hall and Michael Tucker, Alan Davie, Lund Humphries, London, 1992, no. 184, p. 171