Live Auction 258820th Century British Art
Adrian Berg, R.A. (b. 1929)
Lot 99

Adrian Berg, R.A. (b. 1929)

The Lake, Kew Gardens, Summer, Night 1984

Closed12 October 2011

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GBP 3,500

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Adrian Berg, R.A. (b. 1929)
The Lake, Kew Gardens, Summer, Night 1984
signed and dated 'Adrian Berg/4.85' (on the reverse), inscribed and dated again 'The Lake, Kew Gardens, Summer Night/1984' (on a label attached to the canvas-overlap)
oil on canvas, unframed
70 x 70 in. (177.8 x 177.8 cm.)

Specialist note

In the foreword to the 1986 Serpentine show Peter Fuller comments 'The Kew paintings of 1984 ... have a renewed intensity and vividness, especially Berg's depiction of the blues of the sky and the lake' (Exhibition catalogue, Adrian Berg, London, Serpentine Gallery, 1986, p. 14).