Sir Terry FrostUntitled Composition 1954-6

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Artist
Sir Terry Frost (1915‑2003)
Title
Untitled Composition
Date 1954-6
MediumWatercolour on paper
Dimensionsimage: 570 x 438 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Purchased 1989
Reference
T05719
Not on display

Catalogue entry

Terry Frost born 1915

Untitled Compositionc.1954-6

T05719

Watercolour on paper 570 x 438 (22 ½ x 17 ¼)

Inscribed in pencil on back ‘c.54/56’ and ‘Leeds Terry Frost’, upside down along bottom edge

Purchased from the artist through Austin/Desmond Fine Art (Grant-in-Aid) 1989

Exhibited:
Terry Frost: Works on Paper, 25 Years: 1947-72, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, October 1989 (24, reproduced in colour p.7)

Since he first started to paint during World War Two, Terry Frost has made works on paper in a wide variety of media. He has frequently used drawing and watercolour in the development of his abstract oil paintings. On occasion they have recorded an observed view or event and acted as intermediate stages between that original source and the final work… (read more)

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