§ WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM C.B.E. (BRITISH 1912-2004)

§ WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM C.B.E. (BRITISH 1912-2004) RED AND VIOLET, 1961 inscribed, titled and dated to stretcher (to reverse), oil on canvas (91cm x 70.5cm (35.75in x 27.75in)) Footnote: Through the 1950s Barns-Graham developed an abstract language that was derived from close observation of the landscape, but which increasingly emphasised geometric forms. In the early 1960s and for over 20 years through her mid-career, she turned away from landscape and based much of her art on careful arrangements of either squares or circles. The richly coloured ‘Red and Violet’, which sees a precarious balancing of squares, is one of the earliest examples of this new, hard-edged style.