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Robert Adams, British 1917-1984 - Figure studies, 1949; ink on paper, signed and dated in pencil...
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Robert Adams,
British 1917-1984 -
Figure studies, 1949;
ink on paper, signed and dated in pencil lower centre 'R Adams 49', 30.3 x 45.5 cm (ARR)
Provenance:
with Gimpel Fils, London, no.5611 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame)
Note:
Adams was one of the most innovative and important artists working in Post-War Britain, developing a distinct abstract language alongside his contemporaries Kenneth Martin and Victor Pasmore. His work was included in the celebrated British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 1952, alongside Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Bernard Meadows, Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull, after which critic Herbert Read dubbed the young group's shared aesthetic the 'Geometry of Fear'.
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