λ SIR TERRY FROST (BRITISH 1915-2003) YELLOW AND PURPLE, NOVEMBER 62 Oil on canvas 61 x 50.8cm (24 x 20 in.) Painted in 1962. Provenance: Waddington Galleries, London Private Collection, A.T. Langdon-Down Belgrave Gallery, London Sale, Christie's, London, Modern British & Irish Art, 26 June 2014, lot 213 Exhibited: London, Belgrave Gallery, Some of the Moderns, June-July 1988, no. 13 Sir Terry Frost is one of the best-known British artists of the 20th century. His vibrant abstract paintings have come to epitomise the St. Ives artistic movement. He was a product of both the earlier Newlyn School of Art, and a natural successor to pioneers of British abstraction such as Ben Nicholson Peter Lanyon and Barbara Hepworth for whom he worked as a studio assistant in 1951. The present work, along with other examples of Frost's work featured in the sale, brings together imagery that he used repeatedly in his work from the early 1950s right up until the end of his life. Inspired by the Cornish landscape, Frost uses the juxtaposition of curved symmetrical forms with the intersection of horizontal lines against a vibrantly coloured backdrop. Whilst wholly abstract in execution, the forms are clearly rooted in the familiar motifs of boats, harbours, sun, moon and the sea. Frost also experimented with collage and three-dimensional construction and was also a prolific and extremely successful printmaker.
λ SIR TERRY FROST (BRITISH 1915-2003) YELLOW AND PURPLE, NOVEMBER 62 Oil on canvas 61 x 50.8cm (24 x 20 in.) Painted in 1962. Provenance: Waddington Galleries, London Private Collection, A.T. Langdon-Down Belgrave Gallery, London Sale, Christie's, London, Modern British & Irish Art, 26 June 2014, lot 213 Exhibited: London, Belgrave Gallery, Some of the Moderns, June-July 1988, no. 13 Sir Terry Frost is one of the best-known British artists of the 20th century. His vibrant abstract paintings have come to epitomise the St. Ives artistic movement. He was a product of both the earlier Newlyn School of Art, and a natural successor to pioneers of British abstraction such as Ben Nicholson Peter Lanyon and Barbara Hepworth for whom he worked as a studio assistant in 1951. The present work, along with other examples of Frost's work featured in the sale, brings together imagery that he used repeatedly in his work from the early 1950s right up until the end of his life. Inspired by the Cornish landscape, Frost uses the juxtaposition of curved symmetrical forms with the intersection of horizontal lines against a vibrantly coloured backdrop. Whilst wholly abstract in execution, the forms are clearly rooted in the familiar motifs of boats, harbours, sun, moon and the sea. Frost also experimented with collage and three-dimensional construction and was also a prolific and extremely successful printmaker.
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