Lot 10: DAVID R. PRENTICE, AMERICAN (b.1943). White Square, acrylic on canvas. 91.5 x 90.5 cm (stretcher size)

DAVID R. PRENTICE, AMERICAN (b.1943). White Square, acrylic on canvas. 91.5 x 90.5 cm (stretcher size)
Inscribed 'Prentice 1968' verso.

PROVENANCE: Compton paid for this picture as remuneration in lieu of rent when he stayed in the artist's New York studio on his visit to the USA in 1968.

This lot is part of a single owner collection of 28 lots to include Roy Lichtenstein, Marcel Broodthaers, Terry Frost, Henry Moore, Richard Long, Victor Newsome, Keith Milow, Billy Al Bengston, Ian Stephenson, Sol LeWitt and Joe Tilson.

DAVID R.PRENTICE (b.1943): Born in Connecticut and studied at the University of Hartford from 1962 to 1964, after which he worked as a studio assistant to Jasper Johns. During the 1960s Prentice was associated with Abstract Expressionism, this work is one of Prentice's early works from his White Paintings series in the late 1960s and early 1970s.