Acrylic, collage, ink, watercolour and gouache on paper
unframed: 63.5 by 51cm.; 25 by 20in.
framed: 79 by 66 cm.; 31 by 26 in.
c. 1976-78
Signed Frost and dated 78 (lower right); also signed Terry Frost, dated 76/ and titled (on the reverse)
Provenance: Sale, Sotheby’s London, 16 February 2005, lot 258; Richard Green Fine Paintings, London; Sale, Sotheby’s Olympia, 23 November 2006, lot 266
Sir Terry Frost (1915 – 2003) was a British abstract artist working in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in England. He became a leading exponent of abstract art and a recognised figure of the British art establishment.
£12,850