REFP055

Alan Davie (b.1920)

Opus O.234 The Flower Maker, Oil on board, 1957

Height: 40”(101.5cm) Width: 48”(122cm)

Height: 60”(152.5cm) Width: 71”(180cm) inclusive frame

Exhibited: ‘Kompass II’ Stedelijk van Abbe Museum

Literature: Bowness, Alan, ‘Alan Davie’, pub. Lund Humphries, London:1967, no. 185; Alan Davie Early Works, pub. Gimpel Fils, London, November 2005

The ‘Flower Maker’, painted the year before Alan Davie represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, demonstrates the strong influence the American abstract expressionists had on the artist. There is a much lighter feel to his work at this time compared to the more chaotic elements in his earlier pictures and there is a great sensation of the work welling out of the artist’s subconscious. In 1963 Alan Bowness hailed Davie as one of Britain’s most influential artists.

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