SIR TERRY FROST, RA (1915-2003). SUSPENDED FORMS; STRAW, ORA...

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£3,000 - £5,000

SIR TERRY FROST, RA (1915-2003). SUSPENDED FORMS; STRAW, ORANGE, BLUE, c.1972. (d) Four oils on cut canvas pieces, laid upon a rectangle of orange canvas and backed onto a paper support sheet Canvases 57.5 x 36.5cm overall; support sheet 63.5 x 51.5cm. Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the vendor's father (who had been a friend of Frost) Terry Frost was engrossed with the idea of reconciling colour with shape without resorting to the conventional channels of formal expression. He wrote voluble notes on the subject and loved to develop the intriguing technical and aesthetic challenges of depicting form and colour in harmony: it was to become a preoccupation for him in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Always eager to explore different media, Frost's first experiments with curves in his ‘suspended forms’ series embraced paintings, collages, constructions and soft sculpture. "I did a whole series of ‘Suspended Forms’ paintings, which eventually I developed into collages and then into the shapes themselves, cut out and suspended on each other to make one large suspended form, without a stretcher. .. I painted paper with gouache and cut it to make collages of suspended forms. I then put them into a perspex cover and mounted the forms on a perspex backing so that the forms were able to look free. The idea was to try and get the suspended forms as free as possible. They really don’t need a backing, except that I thought of all the different colour walls they might have to hang on, so the way they are mounted is a compromise." (David Lewis, `Terry Frost`, London, 1994) This lot may be compared directly with the identically-sized 1972 lithograph `Straw Orange Blue` (Kemp 66).

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The canvas elements with some mildew/bloom spots and in need of a clean; the support sheet worn and discoloured.