Patrick Heron - Interlocking Scarlet and Pink in Deep Green

Patrick Heron – Interlocking Scarlet and Pink in Deep Green

In stock

Patrick Heron, British (1920 – 1999)

Interlocking Scarlet And Pink in Deep Green

Medium: Original screenprint, 1970, in colours, on wove paper, signed and dated by the artist in pencil, verso is the Publishers stamp

Printed by: Kelpra Studios, London, their stamp verso.

Framed size: 34 x 41 inches
Unframed size: 23.5 x 30.75 inches

Edition 95/100

Reference: There is no catalogue raisonne for works by this artist and no published work which helps us with a
better description of our piece. However another edition of this work is in the collection of the Tate Gallery which was presented to them by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints in 1975.
Note: The angular shapes with dramatic strong colours are typical of the artists works made in the 1960’s and ’70’s. Heron was an important member of the St Ives School and suggested that these represented the fields, rivers, lakes and seas of his native Cornwall viewed from up high in the sky. As well as painting and tapestry design, Patrick Heron has also designed a stained glass window for the Tate Gallery in St. Ives and designed a kneeler to encircle the Henry Moore altar at St. Stephen Wallbrook in London.

This is a landscape-format screenprint by Patrick Heron that form https://media.tate.org.uk/art/ images/work/P/P04/P04276_10.jpg s part of his January 1973 series of nineteen prints (the rest of the portfolio is in Tate’s collection, Tate P04290–P04307). The series is made up of six different drawn abstract compositions that have been subjected to different colour variations. This was a process Heron followed in much of his printmaking through the 1970s, commencing with his first prints made under the direction of the printer Chris Prater at Kelpra Press in 1970 (a sequence of fifteen prints made in April 1970, Tate P04272–P04286).

Provenance: Birmingham Gallery, Birmingham, MI (paper label affixed verso); Property of
Prominent Collector, Rochester Hills, Michigan

[contact-form-7 id="34" title="" ]

SKU: 1621 Categories: 20th Century, Artist, Limited edition prints, Patrick Heron Tags: 20th Century, Abstract, Patrick Heron, RA, Winchester Four

Description

Patrick Heron (1920 – 1999) was a painter, textile designer and writer on art.

He was born in January 1920 in Leeds, the son of T.M. Heron, founder of Cresta Silks and a Christian sociologist. From 1925 to 1930, Heron lived in St Ives. He studied at the Slade School from 1937 to 1939. The Second World War interrupted his painting, but in 1945 he settled in London and began to paint again. The Braque exhibition at the Tate Gallery deeply impressed him in 1946, and Heron had his first one-man exhibitions in 1947 at the London Redfern Gallery and in 1960 at the New York Bertha Schaefer Gallery. He became an art critic to the New Statesman and Nation in 1947, and the London correspondent to Arts (New York) in 1955. A retrospective exhibition was put on displaying Heron’s work at the Wakefield Art Gallery in 1952, and he went on a northern tour that same year. Twelve paintings of his were held in the São Paulo Bienal from 1953 to 1954. Heron turned to abstract art under the influence of American abstract painting in 1956, and he moved to Zennor, Cornwall, in the same year. At the end of the 1950s, he was awarded First Prize in the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition. Heron was also a successful writer and was the author of The Changing Forms of Art (1955), Ivon Hitchens (1955) and Braque (1956).

Heron’s work is part of numerous public and private collections, including Deutsche Bank, the Courtauld and the Yale Center for British Art.