Lot 104
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SIR TERRY FROST, R.A. (1915-2003)
SIR TERRY FROST, R.A. (1915-2003)
SIR TERRY FROST, R.A. (1915-2003)
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SIR TERRY FROST, R.A. (1915-2003)

Harbour

Details
SIR TERRY FROST, R.A. (1915-2003)
Harbour
signed, inscribed and dated 'November Abstract 51/Terry Frost' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
14 x 18 in. (35.5 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1951.
Provenance
with Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owners in the 1980s.
Literature
D. Lewis, Terry Frost: A personal narrative, Aldershot, 1994, p. 57, illustrated.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

‘By 1948 a block of thirteen Porthmeor studios [in St Ives] was bought by the Arts Council to be amortised by rentals from artists. They were large spaces with high ceilings and several had huge north windows overlooking the sea. Barns-Graham had No. 2; in 1949 Ben Nicholson obtained No. 5. In 1950 Nicholson interceded with Philip James, head of the Arts Council, to get No. 4, next door to his own, for Terry … In St Ives, Terry Frost began to develop the abstraction begun with Madrigal, with two related themes known today as the Movement and Walk Along the Quay paintings. He was still living at 12 Quay Street, and his oldest son Adrian was about 2. Every morning at first light he would take Adrian for a saunter around the harbour. St Ives was still a working fishing port in those days’ (see D. Lewis, op. cit., p. 48).

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