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ITHELL COLQUHOUN(1906-1988)Break up of a Space Rocket
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ITHELL COLQUHOUN (1906-1988)
Break up of a Space Rocket
signed with the artist's monogram and dated ''69' (lower right)
acrylic and watercolour on paper
109 x 70.3cm (42 15/16 x 27 11/16in).
Executed in 1969
signed with the artist's monogram and dated ''69' (lower right)
acrylic and watercolour on paper
109 x 70.3cm (42 15/16 x 27 11/16in).
Executed in 1969
Footnotes
Provenance
Private collection, UK.
Anon. sale, Bonhams, London, 2 February 2011, lot 124.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Exhibited
Kunstamt Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Fantasmagie International Exhibition, 1969, no. 86.
Berlin, Kunstamt Wilmersdorf, Ithell Colquhoun: Paintings, September 1969, no. 24 (titled 'Explosion einer Spatium Rakete').
Exeter, Museum and Art Gallery, Ithell Colquhoun: Paintings, Collages and Drawings, 26 September – 21 October 1972, no. 32.
Penzance, Newlyn Gallery, Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Paintings, Drawings, Collages 1936-76, 27 February - 23 March 1976, no. 85.