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Alan Davie (b.1920)

Opus O.279 Gosh, Oil on board, March 1960

Height: 58 ¾”(147cm) Width: 70”(178cm) inclusive frame

Provenance: Private Collection, London

Exhibited: ‘Europa de Postguerra 1945 – 1965, Arte Despues del Diluvi’, Fundacio ‘La Caixa’, Barcelona, Spain, May – July 1995, exhib.no 42CC; ‘The Quest and the Quarry’, New York Art Foundation, Rome, May – September 1961 Literature: Bowness, Alan, ‘Alan Davie’, pub. Lund Humphries, London:1967, no.229

’Gosh’ 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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