In Tate Britain
Spotlights: Gillian Ayres
Free entry- Artist
- Gillian Ayres OBE 1930–2018
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 2442 x 2136 mm
support: 2442 x 2136 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1995
- Reference
- T07003
Display caption
Ayres referred to a work like Sundark Blues as a ‘bloody big painting’ and its size suggests a shift of focus. As the critic Martin Gayford noted: ‘These are pictures vast enough – like a Titian altarpiece – to affect one’s whole environment when in front of them. You are not looking into them; it is more as if you were inside them. At the same time, they are intimate, since you are aware that every mark represents the movement of Ayres’s arm or hand.’
Gallery label, October 2019
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