alan davie/ one cent life / L26/89

From Abstract Expressionism to global traditional art, Alan Davie’s eclectic work reflect his interests in Zen Buddhism, Jungian psychoanalysis, and jazz music. Davie represented Britain at the São Paulo Bienal in 1963, and retrospectives of his work were held at the Barbican Centre in 1993 and Tate St Ives in 2003. Following his WW2 military service, he traveled to Italy in 1948, where he encountered works by Renaissance masters in Florence and Arezzo; in Venice he was introduced to Peggy Guggenheim’s preeminent collection of American modernism. Particularly influenced by Jackson Pollock’s intuitive style of painting. His process was inspired by improvisational jazz and his interest in Carl Jung’s vision of a collective unconscious. Depicting archetypal symbols and recurring shapes, his work conjures primal, mystical associations.

untitled
lithograph in colour on wove
1964
from an edition of 2000
printed by Maurice Beaudet, Paris
published by EW Kornfeld
edited by Sam Francis

image: 292 x 406mm
frame:

One Cent life was the brainchild of Walasse Ting and Sam Francis - a looseleaf publication featuring poetry and artwork by some of the most accomplished artists of the late fifties and early sixties including Mel Ramos, Jim Dine, Joan Mitchel and Andy Warhol.