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October 12, 06:59 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Frank Bowling

b. 1934


Moby Dick

signed twice, titled and dated 1981 (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

253.5 by 187.6 cm.

99¾ by 73⅞ in.

Executed in 1981.

Hales Gallery, London

Acquired from the above in 2018 by the present owner

Munich, Haus der Kunst; Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art and Sharjah, Sharjah Art Foundation, Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi, June 2017 – January 2019, p. 99, illustrated in colour

London, Tate Britain, Frank Bowling, May – August 2019, p. 128, illustrated in colour; p. 129, illustrated in colour (detail)