| Unframed oil painting on wood Dimensions 47.5 x 47.5 cms (19" x 19") Signed and dated 1998 on the reverse. The painting is executed on two main panels of wood bolted together (as typical in McCree's work. Sale accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. Originally exhibited and sold at the Grosvenor Gallery, 18 Albermarle Street, London W1X 3HA in July 1999 at a solo exhibition of the artist's paintings. "These images (Flying Boy I etc.,) are not paper illustrations of a story: they are paintings on wood; polished, tactile, weighty icons... The shape of the wood encloses the Flying Boy I, both confining him and and framing the charged space around him for us to contemplate. If these are icons, they are icons of a journey rather than an heroic arrival..." From the Grosvenor Gallery catalogue of the 1999 exhibition. |
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