ALASTAIR MORTON (1910-1963)
Untitled
signed with initials AM 46 (lower right)
ink, gouache and pastel
40.3 x 50.5 cm (16 x 19 3/4 in)

PROVENANCE:
Mrs Cherry Morton
with Spink, London
with Alexander Postan Fine Art, London
Ivor Braka, London
with Whitford Fine Art, London

EXHIBITED:
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers, April-May 1978, no. 55.

This work is an example of a change in style which occurred in Morton's work at the end of the war. This was characterised by a more frequent use of colour washes, a less emphatic linearity and subtler and more restrained use of colour itself.