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Alan Davie
Ra Drak by Alan Davie, 2000

2000

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Ra Drak by Alan Davie, 2000 Additional information: Medium: screenprint 75 x 85 cm (unframed) 29 1/2 x 33 1/2 in signed, dated and numbered in pencil Alan Davie is one of Scotland's most internationally recognised artists with works in public collections across the world. As a young man, he developed a love of the arts, wrote poetry and played saxophone in a jazz band. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1938-40. In 1945 Davie was deeply impressed by two exhibitions: Picasso at the V&A and Klee at the Tate, and not long after he visited the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, where he came across the paintings of Jackson Pollock. These American Abstract Expressionists inspired Davie, alongside Surrealism and the Cobra group. Using these, he developed his own unique form of expression combining mythic imagery, enigmatic symbols and later taking inspiration from African and Oceanic art as well as Zen Buddhism. In 1956 Davie made his first trip to the United States, where he was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Catherine Viviano Gallery where work sold to Deutsche Bank and Davie was introduced to Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art held a retrospective exhibition in 2000, which was followed by a survey the following year at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in the Netherlands. In 2003-2004, the Tate St. Ives exhibition Jingling Space celebrated Davie's significant contribution to painting. David Bowie was known to be an admirer. Selected Exhibitions: Shining Spirit, Westheimer Family Collection, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, 2008 Eye-Music - Klee, Kandinsky and all that Jazz, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 2007 An Leabhar Mòr- The Great Book of Gaelic, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2005; City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 2003; Gallery Modern Art, Glasgow, 2002 Alan Davie, Bilder aus 50 Jahren, Galeries Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, 2003 Alan Davie - Jingling Space, Tate St, Ives, Cornwall, 2003 20 Jahre Galerie Steinek, ein Portrait, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, 2002 Bienal 50 Anos, Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2001 Alan Davie, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 2000 Times are Changing, Kunsthalle Bremen, 2000 Top in Pop, Galerie Dobele Dresden, 2000 Lineamente Inerntaional, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, 1999 Selected Public Collections: Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Austria, Museum Des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Brazil, Museum of Moder Art, Rio de Janeiro Canada, Musée D'Art Contemporain, Montreal National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON France, Foundation Maeght, St Paul Germany, Stattliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden Stadtliche Kunstgalerie, Bochum Italy, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam New Zealand, City of Auckland Art Gallery Norway, National Gallery, Oslo Portugal, Berardo Museum, Lisbon Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigao, Lisbon South Africa, Iziko South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town Switzerland, Schaulager, Münchenstein / Basel United Kingdom; Arts Council of England British Council Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham Contemporary Art Society City Art Centre, Edinburgh Fitzwilliam Gallery, Cambridge Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Tate Britain, London Tate Modern, London Ulster Museum, Belfast Victoria and Albert Museum Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester USA; Museum of Moder Art, New York Metropolitan Museum, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas MIT List Visual Art Centre, Cambridge, MA Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OK
  • Creator:
    Alan Davie (1920, British)
  • Creation Year:
    2000
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 29.5 in (74.93 cm)Width: 33.5 in (85.09 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Kingsclere, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2718214577182

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