Allen Jones, R.A.
A Figment in Pigment
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Allen Jones, R.A.
b.1937
A Figment in Pigment
oil on linen with a central seam
overall: 243 by 305cm.; 95½ by 120in.
Executed in 1969.
We are grateful to the Artist and his studio for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Alan Clore
Sale, Christian de Quay, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 30th June 1992, lot 79, where acquired by the present owner
New York, Richard Feigen Gallery, 1970
Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Allen Jones - Off the Wall, 16th June – 16th September 2012, illustrated p.112-113, with tour to UNESCO Weltkulturebe Völklinger Hütte, Saarbrűcken and Kunstsammlungen, Chemnit
Allen Jones Figures, Galerie Mikno and Edizioni O., Milan, 1969, illustrated p.63.
Artist's Statement, October 2019:
By the mid twentieth century avant garde painting had gone against the idea of the canvas as being a window onto an imagined world. From Cubism to Abstract Expressionism the idea was to assert the materiality of the picture surface. The making of the picture became part of its subject.
In A Figment in Pigment I addressed this issue by including a seam sewn across the canvas that would mediate any illusion that there were figures dancing in a spotlight.