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Alan Davie

A First Movement in Green

Lot Closed

March 14, 12:13 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Alan Davie

1920 - 2014

A First Movement in Green


signed Alan Davie, titled and dated 57-8 (on the reverse)

oil on board

unframed: 183 by 122cm.; 72 by 48in.

framed: 197.5 by 136cm.; 77¾ by 53½in.

Executed in 1957-58.

Gimpel Fils, London

Paolo Marinotti, Milan

Sale, Sotheby's London, 18 June 1997, lot 127

Sale, Christie's London, 17 November 2006, lot 9, where acquired by the previous owner

Their sale, Christie's Online, 14 July 2020, lot 91, where acquired by the present owner

Wakefield, City Art Gallery, Alan Davie in Retrospect, March 1958, no. 57, with tour to Nottingham, Nottingham University, April - May 1958; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, June - August 1958 and Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, September - October 1958

A. Bowness (ed.), Alan Davie, London, 1967, n.p., no. 190, illustrated

M. Tucker, Alan Davie, London, 1992, p. 172, no. 239