Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías

Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)

Watercolour and collage

1989

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Spain
    City: Madrid
    Place: British Embassy
  • About the artist
    Sir Terry Frost was born in Leamington Spa. He spent four years as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, during which time he met, and was taught by, the artist Adrian Heath. After the war, he studied at Camberwell School of Arts, London and went on to settle 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 his work and over the next decade became one of Britain’s leading abstract painters. 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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  • Details
    Title
    Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
    Date
    1989
    Medium
    Watercolour and collage
    Dimensions
    width: 31.00 cm, height: 52.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Bonhams & Butterfields, San Franciso, November 2008
    Inscription
    br: Terry Frost
    Provenance
    With R. J. & L. D. Fiedler, Altadena, California, USA (purchased from publisher 1989); sold through Bonhams and Butterfields, San Francisco, on 5 November 2008 (Lot 311); from which sale purchased by the Government Art Collection
    GAC number
    18237