Alan Davie
Possibly Davie's greatest and most personal work of the 1960's. Davie the jazz musician and Davie the artist fuse in the most brilliant fashion in a work owned by Richard Rodgers of Rogers and Hammerstein. A painting that has everyting you coudl possibly want in a Davie from this period. A masterpiece of depth, colour and form combining both joyous shapes and emerging background shapes which emerge from the bottom of the painting while the middle fizzes with Davies writhing and rhythmical paintwork. The scale permits one to "live" the painting.
Provenance
Richard Rodgers of Rodgers and Hammerstein
Martha Jackson gallery, New York
Private U.S. collector and thence by descent
Exhibitions
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, 1965, cat. no. 11
Literature
Alan Bowness, Alan Davie, London, 1967, no. 470, pl. 96, cat. no. 170
Douglas Hall and Michael Tucker, Alan Davie, London, 1992, no. 529, pl.30 (whole chapter entitled Music Man's Dream written by Michael Tucker)