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JAMES HYMAN GALLERY
Alan Davie (b.1920)
Please scroll down for further information. Alan Davie (b.1920) 34 Variations on a Theme Screenprint 2003 This boxed set of screenprints was commissioned and published by James Hyman Gallery in celebration of the artist's exhibition at the gallery of Recent Paintings and Goauches in October 2003. This exhibition coincides with the artist's retrospective at Tate St Ives. For images of all 34 prints please see the Alan Davie section of this website. Each box contains 34 screenprints. Each screenprint is separately signed and numbered by the artist. These 34 screenprints are published in an edition of 34. Discussing his drawing technique in a series of letters exchanged with James Hyman published in the catalogue accompanying a recent exhibition of his work at James Hyman Fine Art Ltd, Alan Davie noted: "I have been making drawings with a brush on paper for many years - often laying out say ten sheets on the floor. On each I make a mark or simplified form, but each time in a different place. Then I continue to add another, repeated on each page, but in a different direction - over and over. Inevitably this results in a series of variations on an evolving theme, through spontaneous improvisation. In this way, many ideas for paintings have been discovered, and eventually carried forward in different scales and media - often leading to a series of variations on a single theme, which originally evolved from drawings." (Alan Davie in Introduction, Alan Davie, exhibition catalogue, James Hyman Fine Art, London, 2003, p. 6) Please click here to contact us about this item, or if you wish to buy or sell a work by this artist. | ||||||||
