Property of a Private British Collector
Patrick Heron
Indigo Bay
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Patrick Heron
1920 - 1999
INDIGO BAY : 1952
signed Patrick Heron and dated 52 (lower left); signed PATRICK HERON, titled and dated INDIGO BAY : 1952 (on artist's label attached to the backboard)
oil on board
unframed: 45 by 122 cm. 17¾ by 48 in.
framed: 59 by 135 cm. 23¼ by 53 in.
Executed in 1952.
We are grateful to Dr Andrew Wilson and The Patrick Heron Trust for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. The Trust is preparing the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the Artist's work and would like to hear from owners of any works by Patrick Heron, so that these can be included in this comprehensive catalogue. Please write to The Patrick Heron Trust c/o Sotheby's Modern & Post-War British Art, Sotheby's, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W1A 2AA or email jen.hardie@sothebys.com.
Mrs Walter Tovell, circa 1956
Sale, Christie’s, London, 14 November 1986, lot 258
Waterman Fine Art, London, by 1994
London, CCA Galleries, where acquired by the present owner in June 1996
Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall, Junior Common Room, 1953 no. 7 (as The Indigo Sea 1952)
São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, II Bienal de São Paulo: Grã-Bretanha: Esposição de obras de Moore, Richards, Evans, Scott, Gear, Heron, 1953, no. 57 (as Baía Anilada)
London, New Burlington Galleries, London Group: Annual Exhibition 1954, 1954, no. 31
Ottowa, National Gallery of Canada, Six Painters from Cornwall, 1955, no. 10, with tour to Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto; MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Saskatchewan; University of Alberta, Edmonton; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg; Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor; Art Gallery of Hamilton,Hamilton; The Elsie Perrin Williams Memorial Art Museum, London
London, Tate Gallery, Patrick Heron, 25 June - 6 September 1998, no. 11, illustrated in colour p. 55
Ken Saltmarche, ‘Paintings from England at Willistead’, The Windsor Daily Star, 21 July 1956, p. 12
Mel Gooding, Patrick Heron, Phaidon Press, London, 1994, illustrated p. 80–81,
Michael McNay, Patrick Heron, Tate Publishing, London, 2002, pp. 21–22
The present work is offered together with the original brochure from CCA Galleries, London, in which it is illustrated.
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