Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Alan Davie

London Trip Part One

Cuts, Shapes, Breaks and Scrapes  at Seventeen   Mali Morris  Hannah Lees, Merlin James and Elizabeth Murray   Merlin James  Merlin James  Betty Parsons   Painter, Karl Bielik , taking in an incredible work by Mali Morris info Tom Wesselmann: Collages 1959 - 1964 at David Zwirner info David Shrigley: Drawings and Paintings at Stephen Friedman Gallery info Dropping the Guru at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery  Two works by David Roeder  Stefanie Heinze   Installation view of works by Ana Prata   Clem Crosby displayed in the back room at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery info  Grabbing a pint or two with Karl where Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach caroused.   Hackney Road near the hotel.   Albert Memorial   Albert Memorial  Royal Alber...

New Work: For Alan Davie

Dark Form for Alan Davie , 2014, acrylic on canvas, 48x50 in.

Alan Davie (1921 - 2014)

Photograph: Lukas Gimpel “It’s an urge, an intensity, a kind of sexual need,” Mr. Davie said about painting in an interview for Mr. Hudson’s article. “I don’t practice painting or drawing as an art, in the sense of artifice, of making an imitation of something. It’s something I do from an inner compulsion, that has to come out.”   Janet Gaul (Bili) and Davie in Venice, 1948 Photograph: Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Getty Images Read the New York Times obituary here .

Alan Davie, Scottish Painter

Portrait of a Buddhist (264) January 1960 canvas 84 x 68 in. Photo taken from the Edinburgh Festival website . Blue bubble (201) 1957 masonite 60 x 78 in. Alan Davie at work in his studio in the 1950s .  Photo: copyright of the artist. Image of the fish god No. 2 (136) 1956 board 60 x 48 in. Fetish with yellow background (106) 1954 masonite 40 x 48 in. Alan Davie as a young man, Courtesy of Gimpel Fils, London Altarpiece for Kali (298) July 1960 canvas 72 x 96 in. James Alan Davie (born September 28, 1920) is a Scottish painter and musician. He was born in Grangemouth and studied at Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1930s. An early exhibition of his work came through the Society of Scottish Artists. He also has a great love for Cornwall. After the Second World War, Davie played tenor saxophone in the highly-regarded Tommy Sampson Orchestra, which...