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FRANK BOWLING (1936 - )
Shut Up
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Acrylic on cotton canvas,1973.457x2819 mm;18x111 inches.With the artist’s
name spray-painted with stencil, center verso.Titled, inscribed and dated“Dec
28/1973, 8-9 pm, Susan Row Josephine” in green ink, upper lower left verso.
Inscribed “For Orde Coomes, Jan. 19, 1977” in ink, center verso.
Provenance: Orde Coomes, NewYork (1977); private collection, NewYork.
This very long cascade of paint by Frank Bowling is from the first year
of his important 1970s series of “poured paintings”, and only the second
of such work to come to auction. Beginning in NewYork in 1973, the
artist used a tilting board platform to control the flow and descent of the
acrylic paint vertically down the canvas.With its beautiful stained and
poured surface, this work epitomizes the artist’s groundbreaking
exploration of paint application in the early 70s. Organized by Dr.
Courtney J. Martin,TheTate Museum, Britain recently held an exhibition
of these abstract paintings with
Frank Bowling’s Poured Paintings 1973-8
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April 30, 2012 - March 10, 2013.
[60,000/90,000]