Loose Ends
Oil and wax on cotton duck
1998
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About the work
- Location
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Country: Belgium
City: Brussels
Place: British Embassy, UK representation to the EU & UK delegation to NATO
"Loose Ends" seems to occupy a middle ground between abstraction and figuration. It is composed of a series of motifs showing tunnels and corridors, set out in a linear fashion. The sense of depth suggested by the recession of the passages and doorways is negated by the fact that they lead only to the surface of the painting. Beattie's interest in organising his paintings around compartmentalised sections began in the mid 1980s, when he had to substitute a group of drawings for a larger painting in an exhibition. The title does not refer directly to anything within the work, but was chosen for what Beattie calls its "poetic connection".
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- triangle (abstract shape), grid, abstract
- Materials & Techniques
- cotton duck, oil, wax, mixed media (art object), oil painting
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Details
- Artist
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Basil Beattie (1935 - )
- Title
- Loose Ends
- Date
- 1998
- Medium
- Oil and wax on cotton duck
- Dimensions
- height: 213.50 cm, width: 198.20 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from the artist, November 2000
- Inscription
- verso, on canvas: Basil Beattie / Loose Ends - 1998 - 7 x 6'6" / Oil & Wax; verso, on stretcher: LOOSE ENDS / 1998 / BASIL BEATTIE / LOOSE ENDS / OIL & WAX
- Provenance
- the artist
- GAC number
- 17516