Live Auction 12452Queen Anne's Gate: Works from the Art Collection of Sting & Trudie Styler
Alan Reynolds (1926 - 2014)
Lot 5

Alan Reynolds (1926 - 2014)

Structure - Yellow, Black, and Rust - September

Closed24 February 2016

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GBP 50,000

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Alan Reynolds (1926 - 2014)
Structure - Yellow, Black, and Rust - September
signed 'Reynolds' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated '"STRUCTURE-YELLOW, BLACK, AND RUST.-SEPTEMBER."/Reynolds/Cranbrook/1964.' (on the reverse)
oil on board
45 x 50 in. (114.3 x 127 cm.)

with Redfern Gallery, London, March 1970, as 'Yellow Composition'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 November 1999, lot 173.
Private Collection.

Specialist note

"What I desire in my painting is structure and through that structure, poetry - the kind of poetry which is instinct with abstract visual form. I begin with a few simple shapes or forms and then improvise intuitively. It is the image - the thing in itself that for me is important. The abstract is the reality.

(A. Reynolds quoted in J.P. Hodin, Alan Reynolds, London, Redfern Gallery, 1962, pp. 7-8.)