Patrick Heron

Acquired directly from the Artist by Elizabeth Aherne, March 1963
Sam Fogg, London, where acquired by the present owner, 16th January 1991

London, Redfern Gallery, Patrick Heron, Derwent Lees, Paul Olds and The Abstract Influence, February 1958, cat. no.13;
Probably London, Redfern Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 2nd July - 30th August 1958, cat. no.28;
London, Tate, Patrick Heron, 25th June - 6th September 1998, cat. no.29, illustrated.

New Statesman, 26th June 1998, p.46, illustrated;
Evening Standard, 2nd July 1998, pp.26-7, illustrated.

The following condition report has been kindly prepared by Phil Young of Philip Young Conservation Ltd. The work is in a good and sound condition with some minor points of past restoration and minor surface marks. The canvas is a little slack but is in good condition, all keys are present and secured with small pins. All corner points have small retouchings and there are scattered small retouchings around edges and in from the edges. Retouchings are noted in the image above as circles: scuffs, abrasions and scoremarks as lines, and an unrestored paint los is noted as a square. The raised scoremarks (raised lines caused by contact at the back) could easily be flattened and the points noted above are only apparent on close examination and could be considered normal for a work of this age. There is some light burnishing as normal around edges with fingermarks at the centre edges Please contact the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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'Early in 1957, when painting my first horizontal and vertical colour-stripe painting, the reason why the stripes sufficed, as the formal vehicle of the colour, was precisely that they were so very uncomplicated as shapes. I realised that the emptier the general format was, the more exclusive the concentration upon the experience of colour itself.'

Patrick Heron, ‘Colour in my Painting’, Studio International, December 1969, p.204, quoted in (ed.) Vivien Knight, Patrick Heron, London 1988, p.34.

The Estate of Patrick Heron  is preparing the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the Artist’s work and would like to hear from owners of any work by Patrick Heron, so that these can be included in this comprehensive catalogue.
 
Please write to The Estate of Patrick Heron, c/o Modern & Post-War British Art, Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London W1A 2AA.