Patrick Heron 1920-1999
Black Painting - Red, Brown, Olive: July 1959 - 1959
oil on canvas
38 by 48 inches
signed, titled and dated verso

Provenance
Victor Waddington
Waddington Galleries, from where purchased by
Professor & Mrs Hackett, Winchester, by whom bequeathed to
Private Collection, UK
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited
London, Waddington Galleries, Four English Middle Generation Painters: Frost, Heron, Hilton, Wynter, August 1959
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, John Moores Liverpool Exhibition II, November 1959 - January 1960 [winner of the Grand Prize (International Jury)]
Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Arte Britanica na Seculo XX, 1961-1962, British Council exhibition toured to Oporto and Coimbra
Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, Patrick Heron: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings 1957-66, 21^st May - 15^th June 1968, cat no.15

Literature
Patrick Heron, Patrick Heron The Colour of Colour, E William Doty Lectures in Fine Art, University of Texas, 1979, cat no.5 illus colour p 21
Vivian Knight, Patrick Heron, John Taylor and Lund Humphries, Hatfield and London, 1988, p33 & plate 56, illus colour
Mel Gooding, Patrick Heron, Phaidon, London, 1994, pp150 & 161-161, also p152, illus colour
David Sylvester (Ed.), Patrick Heron, Tate Publishing, London 1998, p162
Michael McNay, Patrick Heron, Tate Publishing, London 2002, p53 & plate 36, illus colour