Anthony Fry

Dance, Blue and Yellow

1960

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Artist: Anthony Fry 1927–2017
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 762 x 1010 x 20 mm
frame: 805 x 1060 x 50 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1961
Reference: T00399

Catalogue entry

T00399 DANCE, BLUE AND YELLOW 1960

Not inscribed.
Canvas, 30×39 3/4 (76×101).
Purchased from the Leicester Galleries (Knapping Fund) 1961.

The artist had been painting variations on this theme for some years (see T00161). The present canvas was intended for an exhibition, consisting of a sequence of dancing figures, held at Durlacher Bros., New York, in April 1961, but was purchased before it could be dispatched to America.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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