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Robert Adams, British 1917-1984 - Untitled, 1957; pencil on paper, signed and dated lower right 'R...
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Robert Adams,
British 1917-1984 -
Untitled, 1957;
pencil on paper, signed and dated lower right 'R...
Price Realised: £394
Estimate: £300 - £500
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Lot 228
Description
Robert Adams,
British 1917-1984 -
Untitled, 1957;
pencil on paper, signed and dated lower right 'R Adams 57', 28.5 x 44 cm (unframed) (ARR)
Provenance:
with Gimpel Fils, London, no.6041 (according to the label attached to plastic folder)
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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