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Alan DavieQueen Emma - Alan Davie, painting, modern, british, big, large, colorful, colorsJune 1968
June 1968
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Alan Davie (1920-2014)
Queen Emma
June 1968
oil on canvas (triptych)
213.5 x 404 cm
signed, dated and titled (on the verso)
Price:
£300,000 GBP (inc. 20% UK VAT)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Exhibited:
Paris, Salon De Mai; Yugoslavia, 1969 Texas, Austin University Art Museum; Montreal, Musée d’Art Contemporain; Orlando, California College of Arts and Crafts, Retrospective, 1970-71, no. 31 (illustrated) Harlow, Playhouse Gallery, Alan Davie, 1974
Literature:
D. Hall & M. Tucker, Alan Davie, London, 1992, no. 596D
Notes:
Alan Davie is regarded as one of Scotland's most important artists of the twentieth century due to his experimentation with different cultural imageries and for recognising the significance of American Abstract Expressionism. Davie attended the Edinburgh College of Art from 1938-40 where he was awarded the Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship. Due to the Second World War, Davie had to postpone his scholarship while he completed his military service with the Royal Artillery in 1946. Around this time, Davie was able to visit two major exhibitions: one of Picasso's work at the Victoria and Albert Museum and an exhibition of Paul Klee's work at the National Gallery in London.
In 1948, he took up his scholarship, moving to Italy with his new wife, Janet Gaul. It was here at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice where he discovered Jackson Pollock's work. This encounter encouraged him to take a new approach to his paintings and he began working on a larger scale and using Pollock's typical method of standing over the painting and adding layers. Upon his return to Scotland in 1950, however, Davie abandoned this style and began to take a newfound interest in Zen Buddhism and African and Oceanic art which he incorporated into his work. He aimed to paint as automatically as possible in order to bring forth elements of his unconscious and create almost unrecognisable compositions. Throughout his life he was also an active jazz musician, poet and jewellery designer.
Davie later taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London from three years until 1956 at which time he moved to New York and held a solo exhibition where every panting sold. Here he also met with leading Abstract Expressionists. Later in life, Davie further expanded his artistic interests, recording his first song in 1971 at Alan Davie Music Workshop. The following year he was awarded Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
His works are now found in museum collections worldwide, including the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
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- Creator:Alan Davie (1920, British)
- Creation Year:June 1968
- Dimensions:Height: 84.06 in (213.5 cm)Width: 159.06 in (404 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU141426642882
Alan Davie
Painter, born in Grangemouth, Stirlingshire. His father was also an artist and Davie junior was encouraged to enrol at Edinburgh College of Art, 1937-40, where he was taught by John Maxwell. Following army service with the Royal Artillery in World War II, Davie worked variously as a jazz musician, textile designer, potter and as a jewellery designer. In 1946, he held his first solo exhibition at Grant's Bookshop, Edinburgh and soon after travelled around Europe meeting Peggy Guggenheim which was to broaden his artistic outlook. His work over the years was much influenced by Abstract Expressionism, Oriental mysticism and Indian mythology. His first London show took place at Gimpel Fils, London in 1950 and his first New York exhibition at the Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York in 1956. During the 1960's and later many of Davie's drawings appeared in print form executed by the Curwen Press and also were seen in the eclectic magazine Motif. Davie was awarded the Gregory Fellowship at Leeds University 1957-59 and in 1962 he held a retrospective exhibition in Amsterdam at the Stedelijk Museum. Other retrospective exhibition venues include the McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, 1992, RWA Bristol, 1992, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1993 and 'Jingling Space' held at Tate St. Ives. This highlighted Davie’s works from the 1930’s to the millennium. Examples of his work are in the collections of the City Arts Centre, Fleming Collection, Harrogate Art Gallery, Jerwood Foundation, Lillie Art Gallery, MoMa, New York, Museums Sheffield, NCAS, Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, Tate Gallery, Towner Art Gallery, Ulster Museum, University of Warwick Art Collection, V&A, Worcester Art Gallery and major museums around the world including MoMA, New York. Alan Davies was appointed CBE in 1972, a senior member of the RA in 2012 and a major exhibition of his work opened at the Tate Britain a few days after his death.
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