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Modern British Art
Works on Paper, 3 May - 14 Aug 2023

Modern British Art: Works on Paper

Past exhibition
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Untitled (51/03), 2003

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Untitled (51/03), 2003
Acrylic on Arches paper
9 7/8 x 10 in / 25 x 25.5 cm
Signed and dated 'W Barnes Graham. 2003' (lower right)
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Barns-Graham’s late acrylics on paper rank amongst her greatest achievements, a period in her career where – to use her own phrase – she ‘let rip’ and through caution to...
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Barns-Graham’s late acrylics on paper rank amongst her greatest achievements, a period in her career where – to use her own phrase – she ‘let rip’ and through caution to the wind. The colour combinations in these purely abstract studies in colour were far from random or based solely on aesthetic choices. They are related to her synesthesia condition in which colours are associated with people, places, numbers and letters.
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Provenance

Art First Contemporary Art, London.
Private collection, UK.
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