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Sir Terry Frost RA (British, 1915-2003), Three Chevrons & Spiral for Red, Black and White
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Sir Terry Frost RA (British, 1915-2003)
Three Chevrons & Spiral for Red, Black and White
1994
Oil on canvas
Signed 'Terry Frost', titled and dated 'Sept 94' (on the canvas overlap)
Sir Terry Frost was a leading pioneer of abstract art and is recognised as one of the most significant British artists of the 20th century. He did not start painting until his 30s, after the Second World War. He had been captured whilst serving in Crete and sent to a prisoner of war camp, where he was held for four years. Whilst there he met artist Adrian Heath, who encouraged him to start painting. When the war ended, he studied at St Ives School of Art in 1946 under the founder Leonard Fuller. He continued his studies at Camberwell School of Art in London from 1947 until 1950 and was tutored by British artists Sir William Coldstream and Victor Pasmore. In the 1950s, following his studies in London, he moved to St Ives. Here Frost became part of a close group of British modernists working with abstraction, rising to prominence alongside Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson and Bryan Winter. Their experiments with abstraction were in large part inspired by the coastal Cornish landscape surrounding them. Frost’s paintings are not a reproduction or delineation of nature; he was interested in painting space, light and colour and the complex relationship between the three components in the world. The colours in this painting, red, black, and white, are typical Frost colours, described as his ‘primary’ colours, and ones he came back to again and again during his six-decade career.
Provenance: Godson & Coles, London, where acquired by the present owners in 2012
Dimensions: (Frame) 65.75 in. (H) x 35.5 in. (W) (Canvas) 56 in. (H) x 35.5 in. (W)
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Sir Terry Frost RA (British, 1915-2003)
Three Chevrons & Spiral for Red, Black and White
1994
Oil on canvas
Signed 'Terry Frost', titled and dated 'Sept 94' (on the canvas overlap)
Sir Terry Frost was a leading pioneer of abstract art and is recognised as one of the most significant British artists of the 20th century. He did not start painting until his 30s, after the Second World War. He had been captured whilst serving in Crete and sent to a prisoner of war camp, where he was held for four years. Whilst there he met artist Adrian Heath, who encouraged him to start painting. When the war ended, he studied at St Ives School of Art in 1946 under the founder Leonard Fuller. He continued his studies at Camberwell School of Art in London from 1947 until 1950 and was tutored by British artists Sir William Coldstream and Victor Pasmore. In the 1950s, following his studies in London, he moved to St Ives. Here Frost became part of a close group of British modernists working with abstraction, rising to prominence alongside Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson and Bryan Winter. Their experiments with abstraction were in large part inspired by the coastal Cornish landscape surrounding them. Frost’s paintings are not a reproduction or delineation of nature; he was interested in painting space, light and colour and the complex relationship between the three components in the world. The colours in this painting, red, black, and white, are typical Frost colours, described as his ‘primary’ colours, and ones he came back to again and again during his six-decade career.
Provenance: Godson & Coles, London, where acquired by the present owners in 2012
Dimensions: (Frame) 65.75 in. (H) x 35.5 in. (W) (Canvas) 56 in. (H) x 35.5 in. (W)
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