Alan Davie - Unoriginal Sins

A PAINTER’S ENVIRONMENT. 1975.

paul robertson — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:32:00 +0000

London: Gimpel Fils, 1975

19.5 x 24cm, 4pp exhibition catalogue for solo show by the Scottish abstract painter. One full sheet b/w portrait of the artist playing flute at a piano in his studio-house on the front, internally a text on the artist by Ken Baynes. VG+ except for some small, light and not too intrusive pencil doodles on the back of the card.

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ALAN DAVIE: THE 60’S (SIC). 1985.

paul robertson — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:45:38 +0000

London: Gimpel Fils, 1970

30 x 21cm, 4pp large format announcement card with a design by the artist on the front cover and across the internal double spread. Gallery details on the back cover. Slight grubbiness to the white area of the card, else VG+.

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DRAWINGS. 1970.

paul robertson — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:39:45 +0000

London: Gimpel Fils, 1970

15 x 22cm, 1pp announcement card with a design by the artist. Verso: typed address and postal franking. The card is mildly yellowed at edges and on the blank reverse has some marks. Else VG.

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RECENT WORK. 1992.

paul robertson — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:22:15 +0000

London: Gimpel Fils, 1992
25 x 21cm, 20pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a major gallery retrospective - 18 full colour images of works (each full sheet). VG+.

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ALAN DAVIE – DRAWINGS BASEL 69. 1969.

paul robertson — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:14:12 +0000

Basel: Basel Kunstmuseum, 1969
20.2 x 24cm, unpaginated. Loose folios. Card folder covers. First edition of this artist's book which reproduces b/w paintings and facsimile texts by the artist. One of 500 copies - but this is an unnumbered example. Slight wear around the folds of the cover else VG+.

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RETROSPECTIVE OF 52 PAINTINGS. ALAN DAVIE. 1968.

paul robertson — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:12:36 +0000

Edinburgh: Richard Demarco Gallery, 1968
21 x 21cm, 20pp exhibition catalogue - pictorial covers. 9 full page full colour illustrations and 6 b/w reproductions of paintings. Many of the paintings show elements of coptic and other mystic symbolism entering into Davie's abstract works which were additionally often influenced by musical forms especially jazz. List of 52 works in the exhibition from 1937 to 1968 and a reprinted text by the artist. Fine condition.

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WATERCOLORS AND BRUSH DRAWINGS, 1963. ONE OF FIRST 100 NUMBERED COPIES.

paul robertson — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:11:19 +0000

London: Gimpel Fils/Graphis Press, 1963.
28 X 23cm. Pictorial (silkscreened) card portfolio content of title page and 14 leaves in colours and b/w or black and cream on white (silkscreen) after works by the artist. First edition. One of 300 numbered examples (total edition). Produced on the occasion of the VII Biennale de Sao Paulo. This example is one of the first 100 copies which were meant to be signed by the artist but try as we might we can't find the signature anywhere. All elements fine in close to fine portfolio. Very scarce.

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CARIB ISLAND NO.2. 1976. UNIQUE GOUACHE. SIGNED & TITLED.

paul robertson — Wed, 17 Apr 1996 14:16:58 +0000

56.5cm x 81cm, original gouache on paper with an abstract image of an island and one of its creatures (a feline figure). Signed and entitled on the back by Davie - this is a lovely mid-career work by him. In glass and wood frame. Fine estate apart from very minor edge wear.

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