LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on board

Measurements:

60.00 in. (152.40 cm.) (height) by 95.75 in. (243.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, inscribed and dated 'alan Davie/1956/THE WHITE MAGICIAN' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

London, Gimpel Fils, Alan Davie, October - November 1956, no. 25.London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Alan Davie, Paintings and Drawings from 1936-1958, June - August 1958, no. 45.Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Alan Davie, In Retrospect, September - October 1958, no. 42.Zurich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Alan Davie, April - May 1960, no. 3.São Paulo, 7th São Paulo Biennial, Paintings by Davie, sculptures and graphic works by Paolozzi, charcoal drawings by Vaughan, September - December 1963, no. 3: this exhibition travelled through South America.London, Tate Gallery, Recent British Painting: Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, November - December 1967, no. 28. Adelaide, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Recent British Painting (Sponsored by The Peter Stuyvesant Trust), March 1970, no. 28: this exhibition travelled to Auckland, Art Gallery, August - September 1971.The Basildon Arts Trust, 1979-1984, on loan.London, Portland Gallery, Alan Davie - The Eternal Conjurer, May - June 2014, no. 2.

Literature:

A. Bowness, Alan Davie, London, 1967, no. 146, pl. 30.A. Bowness (intro.), exhibition catalogue, Recent British Painting: Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, London, 1968, pp. 71, 73, no. 28, illustrated. A. Bowness (intro.), exhibition catalogue, Recent British Painting (Sponsored by The Peter Stuyvesant Trust), Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1970, catalogue not traced.D. Hall and M. Tucker, Alan Davie, London, 1992, p. 171, no. 184.Exhibition catalogue, Alan Davie - The Eternal Conjurer, London, Portland Gallery, 2014, pp. 8, 9, no. 2, illustrated.

Provenance:

with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, May 1965.Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London, by whom gifted to the Basildon Arts Trust, 1984.