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Artworks
Bob LAW British, 1934-2004
Landscape XIII 10.1.60, 1960Pencil on paper28 x 38.2 cmIn other works, like 'Landscape 13 10.1.60', the details seen in the neighbouring drawings have been removed to leave an ostensibly empty field demarcated by a crooked frame drawn by...In other works, like 'Landscape 13 10.1.60', the details seen in the neighbouring drawings have been removed to leave an ostensibly empty field demarcated by a crooked frame drawn by hand in one continuous gesture. Law’s subsequent interest in the existential void — signalled in later titles like 'Mister Paranoia' and 'Nothing to be Afraid Of' — was rooted, somewhat surprisingly, in these abstractions of the Cornish landscape. Even in the more sparsely populated drawings, we have the sense that Law’s framed spaces are charged with numinous potential, setting them apart from the non-referential ethos of American Minimalism.Provenance
Kettle's Yard
Victor & Patricia Skipp, Suffolk
Exhibitions
Bob Law Paintings and Drawings 1959 – 78, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, 1978
St Ives 1939 - 64: Twenty Five Years of Painting, Sculpture and Pottery, Tate Gallery, London, UK, 1985
Bob Law Drawings 1959 – 1966, Karsten Schubert Ltd, London, UK, 1989
Bob Law Drawings, Sculpture and Paintings, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, 1999
Künstler und Dichter (Artists and Poets), Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria, 2015
Bob Law: Ideas, Energies, Transmutations, Richard Saltoun Gallery London, 3 September - 31 October 2020
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