Cyprus
Creator:
Cotton, Alan, 1936-
Ημερομηνία:
1997
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Inscriptions:
Inscribed: Cyprus: Large thistle bike plants, large against the distant landscape. Cyprus: Evening light. Foothills sunset. Very dark distances of golden fields of barley catching in light on the foreground.
Description:
The artist wrote: ‘In Cyprus, particularly on the slopes of the Troodos, the ground is harder to cultivate than in Provence or Tuscany and the hill sides have been sculptured to create terraces on which to grow vines and olives. Perhaps more than anywhere, the Cyprus landscape offered me the opportunity to use vast swashes of colour against which the foreground plants of bewildering variety create tremendous special depth in my paintings’. The thistle drawn in pen and sepia ink is one of the plants used extensively by the artist in a preparatory sketch for one of his oil paintings.
Dimensions:
28 x 38 cm
Signature(s):
Signed in the middle left recto: Allan Cotton
Alternative Title:
Cyprus plants
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Identifier:
PNT-00132
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Rights Holder:
© Costas and Rita Severis Foundation
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