Patrick Heron,
British 19201999 -
 
December 31: 1982: I, 1982;
 
gouache...

Patrick Heron,

British 19201999 -

December 31: 1982: I, 1982;

gouache on paper, 50 x 35 cm (ARR)

Provenance: with Waddington Galleries Ltd, London (label on the reverse of the frame); Mr Guy Whitmarsh, purchased from the above and thence by descent; Bonhams, London, Modern British & Irish Art, 18th September 2012, lot 28; private collection, London, purchased from the above

Note: Living and working largely in Cornwall, Heron was closely connected to figures such as Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and worked for Bernard Leach at the Leach Pottery. As such, Heron was very much a part of the St Ives School which shaped the landscape of 20^th-century British art to follow.

Heron experimented with a range of styles, producing both highly abstract pieces alongside more representational and figurative work, with his mature work driven principally by his exploration of the depiction of light, space, and colour.

Herons first solo exhibition was held at the Redfern Gallery in London in 1947, followed by numerous solo shows throughout his career, including at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, the Barbican Art Gallery and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, the University of Texas Art Museum in Austin, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. His work was also the subject of a significant retrospective held at the Tate Gallery in London in 1998, and was shown at the Tate St Ives in 2018. Works by Heron are currently in the collections of the Courtauld Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, and the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, alongside university collections, including a number of Oxford colleges.