Live Auction 10364Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale, London
Sir Terry Frost, R.A. (1915-2003)
Lot 166

Sir Terry Frost, R.A. (1915-2003)

Red and Black

Closed26 June 2015

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GBP 50,000

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Sir Terry Frost, R.A. (1915-2003)
Red and Black
signed and dated 'Frost/aug 61' (on the reverse), inscribed 'Red + Black' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
50 x 60 in. (126 x 152 cm.)

with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, March 1965, and by whom gifted to the Basildon Arts Trust, 1984.

Specialist note

'Terry Frost's Red and Black is a seminal work. The red and black shapes ultimately derive from Frost's drawings of boats at St Ives in 1950-1, but as the artist writes, "I had no association in mind when I was painting and was only interested in getting the colour and form as complete as I could"' (A. Bowness, exhibition catalogue, Recent British Painting: Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, London, Tate Gallery, 1967, p. 18).