XXVII, from Zurich Improvisation
Catalogue
- Year
- 1965
- Dimensions
- Image: 56.2 × 78.5 cm (22 3/16 × 30 15/16 in.); Sheet: 62.6 × 89 cm (24 11/16 × 35 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Alan Davie
Artist
Painting
Alan Davie was a British painter who developed an abstract vocabulary combining gestural mark-making with symbolic and mythological imagery. Working primarily in oil and acrylic from the 1940s onward, his compositions layer calligraphic forms, biomorphic shapes, and vivid color fields into densely populated surfaces that suggest both cosmic and intimate scales. His work emerged alongside and in dialogue with European modernism and American Abstract Expressionism, though his symbolic vocabulary remained distinctly his own.
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- Alan Davie
- Year
- 1965
- Dimensions
- Image: 56.2 × 78.5 cm (22 3/16 × 30 15/16 in.); Sheet: 62.6 × 89 cm (24 11/16 × 35 1/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1965-119676
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified