Bird Cage No.1

Details

ALAN DAVIE, R.A. (1920-2014)
Bird Cage No.1
signed, inscribed and dated 'Alan Davie 56/BIRD CAGE/NO1', inscribed again 'OPUS 0.165' (on the reverse)
oil on board
48 x 60 in. (122 x 152.4 cm.)
Painted in 1956.

Provenance

with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by the present owner in November 2007.

Literature

A. Bowness (ed.), Alan Davie, London, 1967, n.p., pl. 127.

Exhibited

Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Alan Davie, June - August 1965, no. 11.

Special Notice

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