Suspended Forms
Oil on canvas with collaged canvas
1967-1968-
About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street
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About the artist
Sir Terry Frost was born in Leamington Spa. He was imprisoned while serving in the war but afterwards studied at Camberwell School of Arts, London, then settled in St Ives in 1950, where he worked as assistant to Barbara Hepworth. In 1951, after meeting the artist Roger Hilton, he began to use construction and collage. In 1952 Frost’s first major exhibition in London led to several decades of solo and group exhibitions around the world. In 1960 he visited the USA and met leading Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, and art critic Clement Greenberg. Knighted in 1998 for his contribution to British art, Frost continued to make paintings and prints as well as designing ceramics and textiles right up to his death in 2003.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- abstract
- Materials & Techniques
- canvas, oil, collage, oil painting
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Details
- Title
- Suspended Forms
- Date
- 1967-1968
- Medium
- Oil on canvas with collaged canvas
- Dimensions
- height: 90.00 cm, width: 61.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Christie's, 1 March 2000
- Inscription
- VERSO: Frost 67/68 / Frost May 67
- Provenance
- Sold through Christie's, South Kensington, on 1 March 2000 (Lot 279)
- GAC number
- 17456