BASIL BEATTIE, R.A. (B. 1935)
Rendezvous II
signed and dated 2003 Beattie (lower right)
pencil and oil on paper
74.9 x 110.4 cm (29 1/2 x 43 1/2 in)

PROVENANCE:
Acquired from the artist's studio by the present owner
Private European collection

‘I am fascinated by all the everyday things that we are familiar with, like doors and windows and stairways and corridors. They all seem to have symbolic possibilities in a way but are also ambiguous. You can associate them with opposites: you can associate a corridor with escaping to safety, or you can see it as a way of becoming imprisoned or claustrophobic. So there are all kinds of double associations.’

Basil Beattie (in an interview with Sarah Wedderburn, 2001, see: V.De Circasia, Basil Beattie, Taking Steps, Large works 1986-2009, Turin, 2011, p. 83)

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