Vente aux enchères en direct 778920th Century British And Irish Art
Lot 5

Allen Jones, R.A. (b. 1937)

Float

Fermé12 November 2009

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GBP 22,500

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Allen Jones, R.A. (b. 1937)
Float
oil on canvas, unframed
108 x 132 in. (274.4 x 335.2 cm.)
Painted in 1972.

Private collection, Japan, 1974.

Note du spécialiste

When discussing the present work, Allen Jones said 'I wished to paint a figure flying through the air. The way the figure was used and why it ends up where it does is for a very pictorial reason: in grammatical terms it acts as an acute accent, which seems to hang in an illusion of space created by the two spheres' (exhibition catalogue, Allen Jones, Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 1979, no. 40).