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Garden Leaves: 1955 was painted in the year that Patrick Heron moved to Eagles Nest, Zennor. Set in beautiful gardens and standing more than 600 metres above sea level on the Zennor moors, the house and its dramatic setting inspired Heron's work from 1955-1958.
Garden Leaves: 1955 is an early reaction to the colours and vitality that the garden at Eagles Nest emitted, and looks towards the series of 'Garden' paintings that Heron produced from 1956, in which he fully embraced abstraction. The early 1950s saw Heron's style combining figurative elements with abstraction (see lot 26), and by 1955 and 1956, his work had become entirely abstracted. While this is the case, Heron's choice of a descriptive title in the present work, and in all of the 'Garden' paintings, indicates the inspiration that his surroundings had upon his work. Instead of a literal representation of his garden, he uses colour and the energetic application of the paint to imply it. Peter Fuller writes, 'he [Heron] was searching for a more 'gestural' way of painting. Under the influence of the American artist Sam Francis, and the light of the Cornish landscape, Heron moved sharply away from explicit figuration towards abstract organisations of patches of colour across the whole canvas surface ... Though the colour may be based on memory, mood and reminiscences of flowers and light, rather than on the immediate perception of them, it is most decidedly not concocted 'studio colour' of London (or Paris). It was obviously more than a coincidence that Heron's decisive break with figuration coincided with him leaving the metropolis to live in Cornwall' (see D. Sylvester (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Patrick Heron, London, Tate Gallery, 1998, p. 155).
Professor Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903-1987) was America's greatest writer on architecture and professor of Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass. Hitchcock worked as Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College in 1927-1928.
We are very grateful to Susanna Heron for her assistance in preparing the catalogue entry for this lot. The Patrick Heron Estate is preparing the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work and would like to hear from owners of any work by the artist for inclusion in this comprehensive catalogue. Please write to Susanna Heron, c/o 20th Century British & Irish Art, Christie's, 8 King Street, London. SW1Y 6QT.
Garden Leaves: 1955 is an early reaction to the colours and vitality that the garden at Eagles Nest emitted, and looks towards the series of 'Garden' paintings that Heron produced from 1956, in which he fully embraced abstraction. The early 1950s saw Heron's style combining figurative elements with abstraction (see lot 26), and by 1955 and 1956, his work had become entirely abstracted. While this is the case, Heron's choice of a descriptive title in the present work, and in all of the 'Garden' paintings, indicates the inspiration that his surroundings had upon his work. Instead of a literal representation of his garden, he uses colour and the energetic application of the paint to imply it. Peter Fuller writes, 'he [Heron] was searching for a more 'gestural' way of painting. Under the influence of the American artist Sam Francis, and the light of the Cornish landscape, Heron moved sharply away from explicit figuration towards abstract organisations of patches of colour across the whole canvas surface ... Though the colour may be based on memory, mood and reminiscences of flowers and light, rather than on the immediate perception of them, it is most decidedly not concocted 'studio colour' of London (or Paris). It was obviously more than a coincidence that Heron's decisive break with figuration coincided with him leaving the metropolis to live in Cornwall' (see D. Sylvester (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Patrick Heron, London, Tate Gallery, 1998, p. 155).
Professor Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903-1987) was America's greatest writer on architecture and professor of Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass. Hitchcock worked as Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College in 1927-1928.
We are very grateful to Susanna Heron for her assistance in preparing the catalogue entry for this lot. The Patrick Heron Estate is preparing the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work and would like to hear from owners of any work by the artist for inclusion in this comprehensive catalogue. Please write to Susanna Heron, c/o 20th Century British & Irish Art, Christie's, 8 King Street, London. SW1Y 6QT.