Exposed Painting Intense Black Red Violet

Details

Callum Innes (B. 1962)
Exposed Painting Intense Black Red Violet
signed with the artist's initials, signed twice, inscribed and dated ‘CALLUM INNES CI 7902 IIII C Innes 02’ (on the overlap); signed with the artist's initials and inscribed ‘CI 7902’ (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
41½ x 40 5/8in. (105.3 x 103.2cm.)
Painted in 2002

Provenance

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.

Exhibited

Kendal, Abbot Hall, 2009-2014 (on loan).

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. All sold and unsold lots marked with a filled square in the catalogue that are not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the day of the sale, and all sold and unsold lots not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the fifth Friday following the sale, will be removed to the warehouse of ‘Cadogan Tate’. Please note that there will be no charge to purchasers who collect their lots within two weeks of this sale.

Lot Essay

'The whole process of ‘un-painting’ is essentially based on the interaction between oil turpentine and painted surface. This act of erosion, manipulation, de-colouring seems to provoke a disruption in time – a movement backwards – a flashback that reflects on and unsettles the chronological structure, the rhythm of painting. Evoking an archaeology of colour, the artworks unearth hidden layers, deranged mixings and crooked roots of visuality.’ (S. Pantazis, ‘Review: Callum Innes, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester’ in Contemporary Art & Writing Journal, 12 March 2013, https://www.corridor8.co.uk/online/review-callum-innes-whitworth-art-gallery-manchester/ [accessed 4th August 2014]).

More from First Open/LDN

View All