Alan Cristea Gallery Twentieth Anniversary Portfolio
Gillian AyresWW-2015-M112130
2015·Portfolio of three aquatints (one with carborundum relief), one carborundum relief, one chromogenic print, three digital prints, four etchings (two with chine collé, one with embossing), one linoleum cut, one lithograph, three screenprints, two woodcuts, and two polymer gravures (one with woodcut)·composition and sheet (see child records): dimensions vary
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- Year
- 2015
- Dimensions
- composition and sheet (see child records): dimensions vary
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Gillian Ayres
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Gillian Ayres
Gillian Ayres is a British painter known for large-scale abstractions executed in oil and acrylic, often applied directly from the tube or with unconventional tools to emphasize gestural immediacy and chromatic intensity. Working from the 1950s onward, her compositions reject geometric restraint in favor of dynamic, densely layered compositions that prioritize color relationships and physical mark-making over compositional hierarchy. Her practice emerged within postwar British abstraction and has sustained a commitment to painterly spontaneity and sensory richness across decades.
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