Exposed Painting Light Grey on White

Details

Callum Innes (B. 1962)
Exposed Painting Light Grey on White
signed and dated 'Callum Innes 98' (on the overlap and on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
40 3/8 x 38 ½in. (102.7 x 97.7cm.)
Painted in 1998

Provenance

Frith Street Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

‘Six or seven years ago my work was figurative. I felt that the paintings had so much of myself in them that it was absolutely clear what l was feeling when l made them. I wanted to keep that distance so I could look at the paintings on a reflective plane, and other people could also. For a while there was a need for a lot of artists to keep a distance from their work, but actually I enjoy it when people do realise that there’s some of you in it, and that it’s not just a process painting. Because then it is just a process painting to me. In my work there is also something emotional, perhaps slightly spiritual going on in the canvases, especially the white ones. I just didn’t want them to be completely self-evident’ (C. Innes, quoted in Callum Innes. In Conversation, Issue 2, November-December 1991, www.frieze.com/issue/article/callum_innes/).

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