Untitled from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso)

Alan DavieWW-1972-M052328

1972·Lithograph from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts·composition (irreg.): 18 1/8 x 24 1/2" (46 x 62.2cm); sheet: 19 11/16 x 25 7/8" (50 x 65.8cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1972
Medium: Lithograph from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts
Dimensions: composition (irreg.): 18 1/8 x 24 1/2" (46 x 62.2cm); sheet: 19 11/16 x 25 7/8" (50 x 65.8cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Alan Davie

Artist

Alan Davie

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.

Grangemouth, UK

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