Lot 102: GILLIAN WISE BORN 1936 BLACK AND WHITE RELIEF WITH PRISMS

signed and inscribed model for work shown at ICA 1963 on the reverse

perspex and glass

Quantity: 2

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Alastair Grieve, Constructed Abstract Art in England: A Neglected Avant-Garde, Yale, New Haven & London, 2005, p.213, illustrated p.293.
CATALOGUE NOTE

Sold with a further multiple work by Gillian Wise.

Wise became part of the Constructivist circle in the late 1950s, meeting Hill in 1958. In 1963, she and Hill had a joint exhibition at the I.C.A.

Constructed in 1961, the present work appears to be an alternative version of the work of the same title in the collection of Michael Morris, London.

Wise's reliefs show a high level of concern for the use of reflective surfaces and colour. She derived an interest in prisms from Georges Vantongerloo and many of the works from the early 1960s employ prisms to reflect light into the heart of her constructions.

38.5 by 66cm.; 15 1/4 by 26in.