Live Auction 16808Modern | British & Irish Art
Sir Terry Frost, R.A. (1915-2003)
Lot 62

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

3 for Blue Love

Closed9 April 2019

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GBP 8,750

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Sir Terry Frost, R.A. (1915-2003)
3 for Blue Love
upper: inscribed ''3 for Blue Love'' (on the canvas overlap); centre: signed 'Terry Frost' (on the reverse), signed again twice and dated 'Terry Frost/2001/Terry Frost' (on the canvas overlap); lower: signed 'Terry Frost' (on the reverse), signed again and dated 'Terry Frost/2001' (on the canvas overlap)
acrylic and collage on canvas, in three parts
upper: 23 ½ x 24 ½ in. (59.6 x 62.2 cm.); centre and lower: 22 x 22 in. (55.9 x 55.9 cm.)
Painted in 2001.

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘Today I am interested in relating form and colour to create pictorial space which is as powerful as actual space sensation. Not the single-viewpoint space of perspective, or a multi-focal space, but a free space, the space we move about in, localised space. I consider the discipline of structure of first importance, but the making of this space is equally dependant on the freedom and vitality of the painter’s action intuitively controlled. In this way, I combine a sense of disciplined growth with the free discoveries made in the actual process of painting’ (T. Frost, quoted in C. Stephens, Terry Frost, London, 2000, p. 46).