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Sold Presentation: Framed
Signed and titled on the reverse
Painted wood, with an aluminium surround, on a painted wooden base 12 × 10½ × 1
¾ in. (30.5 × 26.7 × 4.5 cm.), base 6 × 10½ in. (15.3 × 26.7 cm.)
Provenance: Annely Juda Fine Art; Laurie Stewart
Best
know as a printmaker, Stokoe produced three-dimensional works during a
five-year period in the mid-1960s. ‘I was at the time emerging from a
more gestural form of painting into experiments with the properties of
pure colour, here exploiting gravity, height, perspective and balance’
(Letter to Paul Liss, 6 February 2007).
Like many artists of the
period Stokoe was excited by the new possibilities of perspex as a
material, and especially the wide range of exciting colours that could
be sourced from Denny’s art suppliers in Hammersmith,West London.
A fourth piece from this ‘quartet’ (as Stokoe refers to the ensemble) remains in the private collection of the artist.