alan davie / 21/133

Alan Davie was a Scottish painter. Strongly inspired by Zen philosophies, his paintings consist of responsive and spontaneous primitive compositions painted with obsessive, conglomerate mark-making to form images that slip in between abstraction and representation. Davie’s roster of references and influences is
extensive, and includes Jungian psychoanalysis, Pictish symbol stones, contemporary abstract painters, and his lifelong passion and aptitude for playing music. Born on September 28, 1920 in Grangemouth, Scotland, he was educated at the Edinburgh College of Art, and exhibited his work in a regional setting until his death in Hertfordshire, England on April 5, 2014 at the age of 93. His work can now be found in museum collections worldwide, notably including the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, among others.

One-Cent Life
The portfolio, 1964, comprising 62 lithographs and screenprints in colours, on wove, with text, list of contents, from the unsigned edition of 2000, published by E.W. Kornfeld, Bern, the full sheets loose as published in the original portfolio with screenprinted covers, within dustjacket and cloth-covered slipcase, 425 x 305mm
Contributing artists include Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Enrico Baj, Alan Davie, Jim Dine, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Sam Francis, Robert Indiana, Alfred Jensen, Asger Jorn, Allan Kaprow, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Kiki O.K., Claes Oldenburg, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, Reinhoud, Jean-Paul Riopelle, James Rosenquist, Antonio Saura, Kimber Smith, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Walasse Ting, Bram van Velde, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann.

Untitled
(from one cent life portfolio)
number 111 from an edition of 2000
COA
1964
lithograph in colors on folded paper from unbound portfolio

image: 406 × 584mm
frame: 505 x 685mm

white frame by john hinds
conservation mount and museum glazing

• unsigned - as issued

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geoffrey powell
122 grove lane
london SE5 8BP (viewing by appointment only)
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