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Nebraska I, 2008

Screenprint and woodblock in colours on wove paper, framed
Signed by the artist and annotated in pencil, on recto

Sheet: 58 x 56.5 cm
Framed: 78 x 80 cm

Edition of 35

A pivotal figure in the post-war reassessment of painting, Irvin’s encounter with American Abstract Expressionism at the Tate in 1956 proved transformative, liberating him from figuration and unlocking a lifelong conviction that pure colour and mark-making could articulate the full range of human feeling without recourse to the representational.

In the Nebraska series, that conviction reaches an exhilarating pitch: bold chromatic fields, animated by the tension between screen-printed colour planes and the textured relief of woodblock, coalesce into a composition at once improvisatory and rigorously felt — Irvin himself described colour not as symbol but as sensation, relative and alive, shaped entirely by its context.

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