Five Female Figures

Details

Patrick Procktor, R.A. (1936-2003)
Five Female Figures
oil on canvas
48 x 48 in. (122 x 122 cm.)
Painted in 1963.

Provenance

Purchased by Mrs Stoutzker at the 1963 exhibition.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Patrick Procktor First Exhibition, London, Redfern Gallery, 1963, no. 31.

Exhibited

London, Redfern Gallery, Patrick Procktor First Exhibition, May - June 1963, no. 31.

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Lot Essay

When discussing Procktor's exhibition in 1963 Bryan Robertson wrote: 'Procktor's first exhibition at the Redfern Gallery in 1963 was conspicuous as a whole for its panache and attack, its big canvases of figurative themes dramatized through strong colour, emphatic placement of figures in space or ground, and a resonant, warm schematic and semi-abstract use of colour to carry the highly-charged handling of pigment. The show launched his career with a bang. Everything was sold' (exhibition catalogue, Patrick Procktor paintings 1959-1989, Welshpool, Oriel Davies Gallery, 1989. p. 11).

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