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After Matisse

Frank Bowling

Dovehouse Contemporary United Arab Emirates

Artwork details

Artist

Frank Bowling

Title

After Matisse

Description

AFTER MATISSE, 2020

Cotton

13 x 13 in
33 x 33 cm

Edition of 250

Patterned fragments in warm orange, yellow and deep brown sit against a bright green field, enclosed by a loose border. The varied shapes and surface rhythms give the composition the feel of an assembled collage. After Matisse brings this interplay of colour, pattern and irregular geometry to the intimate scale of a cotton work.

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Date

2020

Medium

Mixed Media

Edition

250

Signature

Unsigned

Dimensions

33 x 33 cm

Status

Available

Price

Price on request

The Artist

Frank Bowling

Frank Bowling is a Guyana-born British artist. His paintings relate to Abstract expressionism, Colour Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. After doing his National Service in the Royal Air Force, Bowling went on to study art, despite earlier ambitions to be a poet and a writer. He studied at the Chelsea School of Art, then in 1959 won a scholarship to London’s Royal College of Art where fellow students included artists such as David Hockney, Derek Boshier, Allen Jones, R. B. Kitaj and Peter Phillips. At graduation in 1962, Hockney was awarded the gold medal while Bowling was given the silver. Bowling had been tipped to win the gold but due to his controversial 1960 marriage to Royal College Registrar Paddy Kitchen he was relegated to silver.