Live Auction 5548Post-War & Contemporary Art
Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009)
Lot 131

Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009)

Side Door

Closed16 September 2010

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GBP 8,125

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Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009)
Side Door
signed and dated 'F. Hammersley 1988-89' (upper quadrant)
oil on 7-ply Birch
11¾ x 9½in. (29.7 x 24cm.)
Painted in 1988-89

Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque.
LA Louver, California.
Modernism, San Francisco.
Private Collection, London.

Specialist note

''Frederick Hammersleys paintings are the best-kept secrets in the art world and easily the most ravishing... since the early 1940s, he has been making abstract paintings full of rigor and cosmopolitan wit.''

Dave Hickey