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Lot 42
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Gillian Ayres

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description

  • Gillian Ayres
  • Damask
  • signed on the overlap
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 213 by 175 cm.
  • Executed circa 1967.

Provenance

Kasmin Ltd, London
Acquired from the above in 1967

Exhibited

London, The Tate Gallery (& travelling), Recent British Painting. Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, 1967, no. 50, p. 100, illustrated

Condition

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the overall tonality in the corners is brighter and the flower motives are more pronounced in the original. Condition: Some very minor surface dirt throughout (as can be seen in catalogue illustration). A minor whole of approx. 0,5cm. in the lower right corner. Otherwise in good condition.
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