Floating Reds: December 1962

细节

Patrick Heron (1920-1999)
Floating Reds: December 1962
signed, inscribed and dated 'PATRICK/HERON/FLOATING REDS:/DEC 1962' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
9¾ x 12¾ in. (24.8 x 32.4 cm.)

来源

with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by Denis Nahum at the 1963 exhibition.
with Peter Nahum, London, where purchased by the present owner, July 2006.

展览

London, Waddington Galleries, Patrick Heron, February - March 1963, no. 23.

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

Heron wrote in 'A Note on my Painting: 1962', 'For a very long time, now, I have realised that my over-riding interest is colour. Colour is both the subject and the means; the form and the content; the image and the meaning, in my painting to-day ... It is obvious that colour is now the only direction in which painting can travel. Painting has still a continent left to explore, in the direction of colour (and in no other direction) ... It seems obvious to me that we are still only at the beginning of our discovery and enjoyment of the superbly exciting facts of the world of colour. One reels at the colour possibilities now: the varied and contrasting intensities, opacities, transparencies; the seeming density and weight, warmth, coolness, vibrancy; or the superbly inert "dull" colours - such as the marvellously uneventful expanses of the surface of an old green door in the sunlight' (see V. Knight, Patrick Heron, London, 1988, p. 34).