基斯‧泰森

The Pace Gallery, London
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the tonalities are brighter and more vibrant in the original. Condition: This work is in very good and original condition.
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"In Tyson's work, the demiurgical elements of Pollock's approach is indeed taken to the limit and at the same time turned into absolute nature. Nature is returned to nature, the painterly process is radically de-subjectified. It is no longer an inventio, an observation or a relationship between the painter and the canvas that creates the sensation but the substance of the colour – the matter (as opposed to material) as such, and thus nature itself. Nature, then, it the sole 'event.'"  

 

Gabriel Ramin Schor, 'Keith & His Demon' in: Exhibition Catalogue, London, Haunch of Venison, Keith Tyson: Nature Paintings, 2007, p. 16