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JAMES HYMAN GALLERY
Derrick Greaves (b.1927)
Please scroll down for further information. Derrick Greaves (b.1927) In Praise of the Right Angle Signed, titled and dated on the reverse Acrylic on canvas 134 x 108 cms (52¾ x 42½ inches) 1973 Provenance: Private Collection, London. Literature: James Hyman, Derrick Greaves:From Kitchen Sink to Shangri-La, Lund Humphries, London, 2007, illustrated p. 105. In Praise of the Right Angle (1973) began as a single large horizontal painting that was effectively a diptych in conception. On the right was a vase with the overlapping form of a flower on a stalk, coming in at a right angle, and on the left is the same vase and filling it is the same flower, no longer attached to a stalk. However, Greaves subsequently felt that this two-part painting was too obvious, cutting it in half and keeping the left hand part as an independent painting. This radical process of cropping individual canvases and splitting up diptychs and triptychs lessened the literary quality of these paintings, returning them to the realm of pictorial imagination and, despite their clarity of form, reinforcing their allusiveness. This item is sold. Please click here if you wish to buy or sell a work by this artist. | ||||||||
